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UPDATE: The false narrative of white supremacists doing mass public shootings: Racial, Gender, Religious and Political views of these killers from 1998 through 2025

UPDATE: The false narrative of white supremacists doing mass public shootings: Racial, Gender, Religious and Political views of these killers from 1998 through 2025

Transcript of those two clips by Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson: I see millions of Americans being destroyed and none of it is at the hands of radical Islam. Is radical Islam more dangerous than only fans? It's not even close. Tucker: Sharia law is bad, Seth. I don't...

Transgender Shooters Commit Disproportionate Shares of Mass Public and Active Shooting Attacks—In 2024, for active shooters, at Least 12 Times Their Share of the Population

Transgender Shooters Commit Disproportionate Shares of Mass Public and Active Shooting Attacks—In 2024, for active shooters, at Least 12 Times Their Share of the Population

A widely cited February 2024 report by Politifact claimed: "No evidence of rising LGBTQ+ violent extremism or 'trans terrorism." A follow up report by Politifact in September 2025 examined both the FBI's definition of active shooting attacks and the notion of mass...

Dr. John Lott appeared on The Larry Elder Show to discuss crime committed by illegal immigrants and to dispute a professor’s claim, cited in an Orange County Register article, that illegal immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than Americans.
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@libsoftiktok The ADL's claim that violence is primarily by right-wing extremists is false: "Bogus ADL Report Either Mislabels Leftist Violence As ‘Right-Wing’ Or Omits It Entirely"

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CPRC in the News: The Epoch Times, American Thinker (2), Ammoland (2), and more.
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https://crimeresearch.org/2026/03/cprc-in-the-news-the-epoch-times-american-thinker-2-ammoland-2-and-more/

FACT: Voter ID laws have no measurable negative effect on turnout.

A 2006 study by the Crime Prevention Research Center found “[i]t is hard to see any evidence that voting regulations differentially harm either minorities, the elderly, or the poor,” and that “[r]egulations that

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Talk to an Election Integrity Event in DC

Talk to an Election Integrity Event in DC

General Michael Flynn organized a talk that I gave on voting rules in other countries and some academic research that I have done on voting. The PowerPoint below will help you follow along with the talk. A copy of the PowerPoint is available here. Vote Fraud Mail-in...

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On The Vicki McKenna Show: To Discuss Transgender Violence

On The Vicki McKenna Show: To Discuss Transgender Violence

Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin about his new piece at The Federalist titled "The Real Rate Of Transgender Violence Is Much Worse Than The Media Wants To Admit." (Monday, March 2, 2026) Vicki’s show covers most of...

On the Larry Elder Show: To Discuss Crime by Illegal Aliens

On the Larry Elder Show: To Discuss Crime by Illegal Aliens

Dr. John Lott appeared on The Larry Elder Show to discuss crime committed by illegal immigrants and to dispute a professor’s claim, cited in an Orange County Register article, that illegal immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than Americans. (Monday, March 9,...

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Virginia Bill On the Governor’s Desk Makes It a Crime to Carry a Wide Range of Firearms on “any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, public right-of-way, or in any public park or any other place of whatever nature that is open to the public”

Virginia Bill On the Governor’s Desk Makes It a Crime to Carry a Wide Range of Firearms on “any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, public right-of-way, or in any public park or any other place of whatever nature that is open to the public”

It is unlawful for any person to carry a loaded  (i) semi-automatic center-fire rifle or pistol that expels single or multiple projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material and is (a) equipped at the time of the...

UPDATE: The false narrative of white supremacists doing mass public shootings: Racial, Gender, Religious and Political views of these killers from 1998 through 2025

UPDATE: The false narrative of white supremacists doing mass public shootings: Racial, Gender, Religious and Political views of these killers from 1998 through 2025

Transcript of those two clips by Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson: I see millions of Americans being destroyed and none of it is at the hands of radical Islam. Is radical Islam more dangerous than only fans? It's not even close. Tucker: Sharia law is bad, Seth. I don't...