Comparisons of crime rates across countries often focus on homicides or murders. In 2025, the U.S. murder rate will be about 4 per 100,000 people—roughly twice Canada's 2024 homicide rate of 1.91 per 100,000. However, homicides represent only a tiny share of violent...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations. It also appeared in the Epoch Times, Hot Air, Zero Hedge, Tennessee Star, Times-Leader (Fairfield, MT), The Daily News, Sign of the Times, and Ohio Press Network. . Alessandra Coote was walking on a trail...
@sickoflibbullsh @japan_nobunaga .@japan_nobunaga, Japan had low crime for many centuries. It had low crime before it had any gun control. Can you name 1 place where all guns or all handguns have been banned & murder/homicide rates fell? No, ALWAYS increases
Also
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2019-12/v42n4-3.pdf
My piece with @MRobertsQLD in the Australian Spectator is getting attention: The shocking truth about Australian crime rates
https://crimeresearch.org/2026/06/in-the-australian-spectator-the-shocking-truth-about-australian-crime-rates/
Other coverage here
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2026/06/11/report-personal-crimes-in-gun-controlled-australia-triple-that-of-gun-friendly-usa/
#2a #australia #guns #crime
As gun-grabbers pedal legislation attacking "convertible pistols," @CrimeResearch1 findings show that there's “no evidence that law-abiding gun owners are converting their handguns."
Check out the findings ⬇️
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20260608/report-provides-context-on-machinegun-convertible-pistol-panic
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Dr. John Lott coauthored an op-ed in Australia with an Australian federal senator, Malcolm Roberts. It was also published at Australians for Science & Freedom. . Australia faces a serious crime problem. Many Australians believe our crime rate is low compared with...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations. It also appeared in the Epoch Times, Hot Air, Zero Hedge, Tennessee Star, Times-Leader (Fairfield, MT), The Daily News, Sign of the Times, and Ohio Press Network. . Alessandra Coote was walking on a trail...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall. . Gun control advocates are trying a new tactic. Instead of trying to ban all handguns, some Democrat states are trying to ban one of the most commonly owned handguns – Glocks, which they claim can be easily converted into...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. . For those concerned that background checks will eventually be used to create gun registries that can later facilitate confiscation, they need only look at what is happening now in New Jersey. New Jersey’s Attorney...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. . The background check system for gun purchases is a mess. Republicans have criticized Democratic presidents for failing to prosecute people denied gun purchases through background checks. Democrats have leveled...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at The Federalist. . Summary: If policymakers and advocates are serious about reducing such incidents, the focus needs to shift toward measures that directly address the factors involved. . As is so typical, just hours after the...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics on the claims that the violence is coming from the right. It was also reprinted at Zero Hedge, Yahoo! News, MSN, The Ohio Press Network, Goodoil News, American Partisan, and Fairfield Times, Great Falls Leader, and...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Union Leader with New Hampshire state Representative Samuel Farrington (R), who is the primary sponsor of the Campus Carry bill that will be voted on this coming week in the state Senate Judiciary Committee. . News media coverage...
Dr. John Lott gave a talk in Houston on April 17th, 2026 titled "Gun Control Myths." The audio here isn't perfect,, but hopefully between the audio and the PowerPoint the main message will get across. For those interested, there is also the book....
Dr. John Lott gave a talk in Houston on April 17th, 2026 titled "The FBI Crime Data is a Politicized Mess." The audio here isn't perfect,, but hopefully between the audio and the PowerPoint the main message will get across. This audio missed the first 10 minutes of...
Dr. John Lott gave a talk at the Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan about errors in the FBI crime data. The PowerPoint slides that correspond with the audio is available here. Talk at Cooley Law SchoolDownload
Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson on his national radio show about our new survey, conducted by McLaughlin & Associates on May 19, 2026, of 1,000 general election voters, examining whether likely voters carry concealed handguns. (Monday, June 1, 2026, from 6:20...
https://youtu.be/9rSOlMHvKiE Dr. John Lott appeared on Strictly Speaking: Unfiltered with Bob Frantz to discuss the aftermath of the Karmelo Anthony verdict, which sparked protests outside the Collin County, Texas, courthouse as activists alleged racial bias against...
Dr. John Lott appeared on The Mark Reardon Show on St. Louis’ giant 100,000-watt KFTK-FM about a new CPRC survey conducted by McLaughlin & Associates of 1,000 general election voters on May 19, 2026, regarding whether likely voters carry concealed handguns. See...
American likely voters generally think that votes should be counted within 24 hours (51% think within 24 hours versus 19% who say within several days, and 26% who say "as long as it takes"). The groups that think that it should take it "as long as it takes" are...
About 68,000 citizens are legally armed in Montenegro, and the country has roughly 495,000 adults. That would put licensed gun ownership at approximately 13.7% of adults. According to UNODC/World Bank data, Montenegro's most recent intentional homicide rate is...
Personal crimes such as rape and sexual assault are three times higher in gun-controlled Australia than in the USA, a report in the Spectator/Australia on Wednesday details. Written by Malcolm Roberts and John Lott, Jr., the report begins by...
