August 12, 2023 With the U.S. Supreme Court about to hear oral arguments on Connecticut's and Cook County, Illinois assault weapon bans, it is interesting to see what a small share of murders are committed with any type of rifle and how even that share has fallen over...
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 posted at Zero Hedge and linked to at HotAir. . The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to...
“On Thursday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) commuted every death sentence in the state... The action covers all 548 people on California’s death row.”
My piece evaluates Newsom’s arguments against the death penalty.
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Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. . On Thursday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) commuted every death sentence in the state, following Joe Biden’s lead just before leaving office. The action covers all 548 people on California’s death...
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 posted at Zero Hedge and linked to at HotAir. . The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to...
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...
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/Sz5m79bm5sA Dr. John Lott appeared on Ted Nugent’s Spirit Campfire on Real American Voice to discuss how well-intentioned gun control policies, such as gun-free zones and assault weapon bans, may inadvertently increase crime, as well as the factors...
https://youtu.be/8a6x3LRDgho Dr. John Lott Jr. appeared on Stinchfield Tonight on Real America’s Voice to discuss the reported 25% decline in violent felonies under President Trump and the historically low murder rate. See also Dr. Lott's new piece at Real Clear...
https://youtu.be/tAxsOGxHmxM Dr. John Lott talked to John Hines on One America News about the record decline in violent crime in 2025 and the historically low murder rate. See also Dr. Lott's new piece at Real Clear Investigations titled "Arrests, Prosecutions and...
Research by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) showed that murders with illegally modified Glocks were rarer than fatal lightning strikes. By comparison, the National Weather Service confirmed 81 fatal lightning strikes since the start of 2021 and confirmed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTnjo2Eq-8A Television crime shows continue to portray frequent murders with machine guns. The Crime Prevention Research Center has repeatedly shown that these depictions are far from reality, yet many shows still suggest that criminals...
Another reason not to have mail in ballots. From the Department of Justice. . Damon Matai Seei, 34, of Payson, Utah, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Sept. 16. He was arrested and appeared for his arraignment at the Orrin G. Hatch U.S. Courthouse this...
