Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson on his national radio show about his new piece at Real Clear Investigations on the record drop in violent crime during 2025 and the historic low murder rate. (Monday, October 26, 2026)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZWcWJRlnoY 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...
A report by Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) president John Lott shows armed citizens stopped a third of all “active shooter incidents” from 2014 through 2025. Lott then presented the CPRC data as a correction to FBI reports which claim armed citizens...
The commentator said “It’s a complicated case.” It’s not. An adult woman is being prevented from protecting herself from a known threat.
Additionally, assuming that she stays in college, she is being forced to expose herself to this threatening man in an area where he can be certain no law abiding citizens will be armed. He can arm himself and have minimal concern for being stopped since she is located in a verified “gun free” zone. He can be assured that he will have the lowest chances of being shot if he should decide to rape or kidnap her. If he decids to kill a large number of her friends, he will be in the ideal environment.