A new study in JAMA Pediatrics asserts that states with "permissive" gun control laws experienced higher pediatric firearm mortality rates following the 2010 Supreme Court decision in McDonald v. Chicago. The study analyzed data from 49 states spanning 1999 to 2023....
A new survey titled “Exposure to Mass Shootings in the United States: A National Survey” and published in March 7th issue of the journal JAMA Network Open claims that approximately 6.95% of U.S. adults reported having been present at the scene of a mass shooting...
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Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist about the Trump administration undoing Biden's DEI push in police and fire departments. . The Trump administration has dropped the Biden administration’s pushes for onerous consent decrees on police and fire...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics on crime by illegal aliens. It was published in Daily Signal, Alpha News, Zero Hedge, World Net Daily, American Greatness, Tennessee Star, Conservative News and Views, AltNews, NextPost, KHQ (Spokane, Washington),...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Townhall. Democrats just can’t let go of their push for an assault weapons ban. Meanwhile, Americans are waiting for the Supreme Court to intervene. Thirteen times, the court has relisted the Snope v. Brown case, which...
Dr. Lott has a new post at American Liberty. The CPRC commissioned a new survey by McLaughlin & Associates of 1,000 general election American voters. Despite all the claims about support for gun control, only 19% of voters think passing more gun control will...
American Liberty ran something that we had put together. A new survey titled “Exposure to Mass Shootings in the United States: A National Survey” and published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (SPPE) claims that approximately 6.95% of U.S....
We believe that this is an unusually important op-ed by Dr. John Lott. Also published at World Net Daily. Updated information is shown at the end of this piece. . Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified a shocking plan by former President Joe...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall. News headlines across the country repeated a University of Colorado public health study claiming that “1 out of every 15 American adults have been at a mass shooting.” That figure suggests 18 million Americans have witnessed...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall on the national concealed carry reciprocity bill, which has passed the House Judiciary Committee and is headed to the House floor. . Picture a single woman driving across state lines at night, fearful that her car will break...
Here is a recording of one of the three different talks that Dr. John Lott's presented at the 2025 NRA meetings in Atlanta. Also provided below is a copy of his PowerPoint and the video that he showed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r_xc09q9vo...
The meetings will take place at the Georgia World Congress Center, 285 Andrew Young International Blvd NW, Atlanta, GA 30313. GUN CONTROL MYTHS Friday, April 25 • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Level 3, B311 THE FBI CRIME DATA IS POLITICIZED AND A MESS Friday, April 25 • 3:30 PM...
Tangle conducted individual interviews with the left wing Brennan Center's Ames Grawert, The Manhattan Institutes' Robert VerBruggen, and CPRC's Dr. John Lott on the issue of whether crime is increasing. It would have been much more useful if everyone was in the same...
Dr. John Lott to John Solomon on his podcast about our research on crime by illegals, active shootings stopped by civilians carrying concealed handguns and police, and Tulsi Gabbard declassified Biden efforts against "non-criminal" domestic terrorists. (Sunday, June...
Dr. John Lott appeared on the Forge of Freedom Podcast to discuss our research on gun registration being used to solve crime and the impact of gun bans. (Friday, May 30, 2025)
Dr. John Lott talked to Clark Aposhian on Utah's KNRS-AM radio to discuss our new research titled: "Do Armed Civilians Stop Active Shooters More Effectively Than Uniformed Police?" (Saturday, May 31, 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUi-ntBMLCI Amazon's Bosch Legacy recently showed a case where a civilian with a gun stops a robbery of a man and his wife when their car pulled into their driveway. Television show bias against guns is never-ending. You won’t see an...
The Austrian city of Graz is in mourning after a suspected gunman killed 10 people in a secondary school shooting this morning. Seven women and three men are so far counted among the dead, local officials have said. The 21-year-old suspect - a former pupil that...
CitiGroup is reversing course on their policy not to provide banking services to companies that sell firearms to people under 21. The policy went into effect after Parkland, but as we have pointed out before, relatively few mass public shootings are committed by those...