Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations on the record drop in violent crime during 2025 and the historic low murder rate. Also linked to it at HotAir. . The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal justice: the...
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...
New Research: The worst 2% of U.S. counties account for 53% of all murders but 57% of firearm murders. Most in heavily Democrat controlled areas. U.S. murders are concentrated far more heavily than Canada’s and Australia’s.
https://crimeresearch.org/2026/10/new-research-the-worst-2-of-u-s-counties-produce-an-even-larger-share-of-firearm-murders-than-of-murders-overall-those-counties-account-for-53-of-all-murders-but-57-of-firearm-murders-u-s-murders/
@FBI #Crime #murder
.@FreemanWSJ at the WSJ: Hard as it may be for news consumers to believe, the United States of America has lately become a much less violent place.
John Lott writes at RealClearInvestigations:
"The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal
FBI SAYS 16 — GUN RIGHTS EXPERT SAYS 225!
Dr. John Lott accuses the FBI of dramatically undercounting active shootings stopped by law-abiding armed citizens.
He says the agency has repeatedly been alerted to missing cases but STILL hasn't corrected its numbers.
“It's one thing
3.9% vs. 36.6%. That's a MASSIVE difference. And both numbers are being used in the debate about whether armed civilians stop active shooters.
The FBI's data, as cited by researcher Dr. John Lott, credits armed citizens with stopping just 3.9% of active-shooter incidents from
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Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist that focuses on media bias. Our tracking of the lack of media coverage by major outlets on this historic drop in violent and property crime and murders is available here. The piece was linked to on the front page of Real...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations on the record drop in violent crime during 2025 and the historic low murder rate. Also linked to it at HotAir. . The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal justice: the...
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...
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...
https://youtu.be/ssAdVoO1-j0 Dr. John Lott talked to John Hines on One America News about the school shooting in Bend, Oregon, where an armed bystander intervened and killed the gunman despite the district’s ban on staff carrying firearms. They also discussed a new...
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Meyer on Oregon’s KMED about the truth behind the Bend school shooting and the “good guy with a gun” issue in the mainstream media. (Monday, October 19, 2026, from 10:05 to 10:20 AM ET)
Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin about the latest school shooting in Bend, Oregon, and gun control policies around the world. (Monday, October 19, 2026)
The problem with sending political items in the mail. If this happens with political mailings, what might happen with mail-in and absentee ballots. . WICHITA, KAN. – A federal grand jury in Wichita returned an indictment today charging a Kansas postal worker with...
German first, English translation following it. Man muss nicht immer hilflos auf die Polizei warten – und eventuell zum Opfer werden. Nach einer Auswertung des Crime Prevention Research Center stoppten legal bewaffnete Bürger in den USA zwischen 2014 und 2025...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist that focuses on media bias. Our tracking of the lack of media coverage by major outlets on this historic drop in violent and property crime and murders is available here. The piece was linked to on the front page of Real...
