Earlier this year we completed a detailed evaluation of 38 years of prison data for Arizona. Abstract In this edition of Prisoners in Arizona we provide an update to the findings of the previous report published in June of 2014. That report covered a wide range of...
Executive Summary The U.S. is well below the world average in terms of the number of mass public shootings, and the global increase over time has been much bigger than for the United States. Over the 18 years from 1998 to 2015, our list contains 2,354 attacks and at...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Chicago Tribune on our new updated research on comparing mass public shooting rates across countries. The research that this op-ed is based on is available here (please download it). The piece in the Tribune starts this way: “This...
Dr. John Lott talked to One America News' John Hines about our research on mass public shootings around the world. (Monday, October 22, 2018)
Bloomberg's Everytown former Research Director, Ted Alcorn, is now covering public health & safety reporting, obviously including gun control issues, for the New York Times. Does the New York Times think that hiring an activist like this helps with people's...
A police officer and two others were murdered at Chicago's Mercy Hospital today. One person was killed outside the hospital and the other two were killed inside it. The killer, Juan Lopez, was himself killed, though it isn't yet clear if he took his own life or was...
Mexico's EnlaceJudio describes our interview this way: "How Israel has changed its strategy to combat terrorism, allowing more people to carry weapons in a covert manner. Interview in the City of Ideas."
On Saturday, November 17, 2018, the Illinois Association of School Boards barely defeats arming teachers 53% to 47%. Members of the Illinois Association of School Boards voted Saturday against a resolution that would give school districts the option to train and arm...
E-Consulta, November 16, 2018 La conferencia inaugural de la XI edición de la Ciudad de las Ideas (CDI), que en esta ocasión lleva por lema Burning questions, estuvo a cargo deleconomista y escritor John R. Lott Jr. quien abordó el tema de las leyes que regulan...
Seattle, Washington, November 2, 2018 (Q13 FOX News) An armed bystander chased after the suspect in a domestic-violence stabbing at Seattle Center on Friday afternoon, backing him down until another man pepper-sprayed the suspect and police eventually Tazed and...
Dana Loesch and Dr. John Lott comparing mass public shooting statistics across countries and states and discussing the dangers of gun-free zones. (Wednesday, November 14, 2018, from 6:03 to 6:15 PM)
Dr. John Lott talked to Scott Sloan on the giant 50,000-watt WLS about the mass public shooting in California and the dangers of gun-free zones. (Friday, November 9, 2018, from 8:05 to 8:21 AM)