Screenshot Comparing the number of murders in the first seven months of 2025 to the same time in 2026:FBI Crime Data Explorer Data Discovery ToolMonth20252026Coverage gap in 2026 in percent of the population covered in percentage pointsPercent Drop in Homicides...
Over 600,000 people have been booked into ICE detention centers between January 20th, 2025 and July 31, 2026. At the same time, there have been about 170,000 border apprehensions (155,000 at the southwest-border and another 15,000 nationwide). So with eight dead, that...
Yes, Armed Civilians Can — and Do — Stop Mass Shootings: Data ignored by the FBI show the importance of defensive gun use in bringing down active shooters
Two days after last week’s attack on an Oregon elementary school, the @AP opened a news story with a familiar claim: “Few
Dr. John Lott talked to Frank Miniter on the Armed Citizen Podcast about how firearm statistics are manipulated by gun-control activists.
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Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at National Review Online. . Two days after last week’s attack on an Oregon elementary school, the Associated Press opened a news story with a familiar claim: “Few mass shootings in the U.S. end like the deadly attack on an...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the Washington Times. . Censorship was a serious problem during the Biden administration. . President Trump has reversed some of the changes that President Biden made to information published by the...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. . Without the threat of the death penalty, prosecutors would lose a powerful incentive for defendants to negotiate. . The U.S. military last executed a convicted criminal on April 13, 1961. But if anyone deserves the...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. See also the link at Real Clear Politics. . The federal government consistently downplays evidence that armed, law-abiding citizens can stop public mass-casualty attacks. . Those who manipulate crime data can shape the...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall. . Gun control advocates have condemned the Justice Department’s decision to stop criminally enforcing the nearly 60-year-old 1968 federal ban on licensed dealers selling handguns to law-abiding 18-, 19-, and...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the New York Post. Also linked at Real Clear Politics. . Much of today’s deportation debate centers on the question of who should count as “criminals” to be immediately sent back to their home countries — with anti-deportation...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. It was also published at The Blaze and World Net Daily. . Whoever controls crime data can shape the political debate. The Trump administration has already reversed some of the changes the Biden administration made...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. The piece also appeared at the Epoch Times and World Net Daily. . The Supreme Court’s decision to stay the injunction blocking President Trump’s March executive order on mail-in ballots gives...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX8uoAHk8G0&t=222s A copy of the PowerPoint is available here. GRPC 2026 Sept 27 TalkDownload
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVlFRlwy4G4 Dr. John Lott's talk on July 10th, 2026 on Restoring Self Defense. A copy of the PowerPoint is available here.
Here is the audio and PowerPoint for Dr. John Lott's recent talk in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 13th. This talk has Lott speaking in English followed by a translator speaking in Spanish. Argentina-Talk-2025-without-videoDownload The video in the presentation is...
Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson on his national radio show about the latest school shooting in Bend, Oregon, where a bystander shot and killed the shooter despite the school district’s ban on staff carrying firearms on campus. (Thursday, October 15, 2026)
Dr. John Lott talked to Gary Jeff Walker on Cincinnati’s WLW about the CDC’s removal and subsequent correction of defensive gun use statistics, declining violent crime and murder rates in the United States, the impact of law enforcement and immigration policies on...
Dr. John Lott appeared on The Silk or Joe Show to discuss the CDC’s correction to its post on defensive gun uses. (Saturday, October 10, 2026)
Houston, Texas, July 3, 2026 (Click2Houston.com) Deputies were called around 2:15 a.m. to the 8200 block of C.E. King Parkway on an in-progress call… Investigators said the shooting happened outside a business known as the JV Ranch Ice House. Deputies interviewed...
“These numbers pulled 80, 90 percent, sometimes 100 percent of the agents on duty away from the field. Border Patrol zones across Texas, Arizona, and California had no agent presence for...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MiWs2JCvqc Ezra Levant: You know, Dr. John Lott is a US scholar who is, and it's interesting to, to talk to him because he doesn't make the argument from a moral point of view or from a constitutional point of view. He never argues...
