Dr. John Lott appeared on TNT Radio’s The Dean Mackin Show to discuss gun defensive uses, especially for women. (Monday, August 5, 2024, from 8:45 to 8:59 PM ET)
Month: October 2024
California Voters Clearly Want Tougher Criminal Penalties
A clear majority of even Californians support making criminal penalties stiffer -- by two-to-one ratio. Even 47% of somewhat liberal people support stiffing the penalties. Nearly 58 percent of the 1,685 likely voters surveyed support Proposition 36, a November ballot...
Letter Submitted to the New York Times: Responding to Paul Krugman’s “Trump’s Made-Up ‘Kamala Crime Wave’,” August 22
Here is a letter that we submitted to the New York Times a couple weeks ago. The letter was not published by the Times. Background: I have served as the senior advisor for research and statistics in the US Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs and the...
On Wilkow!: Media Pushing Misleading Stats
https://youtu.be/AlyU_j_522I Dr. John Lott joined Andrew Wilkow on Salem News Channel to discuss the truth about the crime statistics and the newly released FBI’s measure of reported crime data for 2023. (Monday, September 23, 2024)
On NewsMax’s Rob Schmitt Tonight: New Data Shows Crime is on the Rise
https://youtu.be/YoFQ0CSWf38 Dr. John Lott appeared on NewsMax’s Rob Schmitt Tonight to discuss the violent crime that has soared under the Biden-Harris administration according to the just-released data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’s National Crime...
At Townhall: The Biden-Harris Administration Ghost Gun Case is filled with Lies
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. has a new op-ed piece at Townhall. Homemade guns have been around since before the United States was a country, but gun control advocates refer to them today as “ghost guns.” VanDerStok v. Garland, which the Supreme Court will hear...
On The Vicki McKenna Show: To Discuss Violent Crime Soaring Under Biden-Harris
Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin about the latest released statistics showing crime up under the Biden-Harris administration. (Monday, September 16, 2024) Vicki’s show covers most of Wisconsin and part of the...
Elon Musk on the Importance of Gun Ownership and Voter IDs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDDAzQzf0pU Here is part of Elon Musk's talk for President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on October 5th, 2024. Musk talks about how private gun ownership protects the First Amendment. We focus on that part of his talk because of our...
On Armed American Radio: The FBI and Media Don’t Tell You How Many Lives Guns SAVE
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on the Armed American Radio show about the latest video on Stossel TV covering our work on good guys with guns, which Elon Musk retweeted. They also discussed the second Trump assassination attempt at his Florida golf club and...
On Morning with Gary Byron: Discussing Guns and Crime
Dr. John Lott appeared on WDRC’s Morning with Gary Byron in Connecticut to discuss the second Trump assassination attempt and shootings stopped by good guys with guns. They also talked about Kamala Harris’ stance on guns and gun policy. See also Dr. Lott’s pieces...
CPRC in the News: Daily Caller, Townhall, MRC NewsBusters, Fox/CBS TV Indianapolis, and much more
The letter asks several questions to the FBI, such as if they omitted any data from various major cities, how many agencies provided incomplete data and if the data would be retroactively adjusted to reflect an increase in violent crime, like it had in...
At the New York Post: First jobs, now crime: Biden’s FBI revises 2022 violence stats for the worse
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at New York Post. This week President Biden once again took a victory lap on crime, trumpeting preliminary FBI data on trends in 2024. “Communities across our country are safer now than when I took office,” he bragged in an official...