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On the Bill Martinez Radio Show: To Discuss COVID Overcounts and Murder Concentration in the US

Feb 5, 2023 | Radio

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Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Martinez on his national radio show about COVID deaths and hospitalizations being overcounted, and our latest research that murders in the U.S. are becoming increasingly concentrated in densely populated urban centers in a small set of counties.

(Tuesday, January 17, 2023, from 10:06 to 10:29 AM ET)

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New Research: The worst 2% of U.S. counties produce an even larger share of firearm murders than of murders overall. Those counties account for 53% of all murders but 57% of firearm murders. Most in heavily Democrat controlled areas. U.S. murders are concentrated far more heavily than Canada’s and Australia’s.

New Research: The worst 2% of U.S. counties produce an even larger share of firearm murders than of murders overall. Those counties account for 53% of all murders but 57% of firearm murders. Most in heavily Democrat controlled areas. U.S. murders are concentrated far more heavily than Canada’s and Australia’s.

by | Oct 6, 2026 |

We have previously examined how heavily murders concentrate in the United States, but this is our first analysis of firearm homicide concentration. The first two graphs show that the worst 2% to 5% of counties account for a share of firearm murders about four...