Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on the Armed American Radio show about his new piece at the Washington Times titled “A nonlethal firearm alternative?: Self-defense requires certainty, not wishful thinking.”
(Sunday, April 6, 2025, from 9:05 to 9:25 PM ET)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMepfqd4xzc Our full piece at Real Clear Investigations is available here. Dan Bongino: "John Lott is a great writer. We have had him on our show before."
Dr. John Lott talked to Andy Hooser on The Voice of Reason in Kansas about the sharp decline in violent crime in 2025 and historically low murder rates. See also Dr. Lott's new piece at Real Clear Investigations titled "Arrests, Prosecutions and Deportations Fuel...
Research by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) showed that murders with illegally modified Glocks were rarer than fatal lightning strikes. By comparison, the National Weather Service confirmed 81 fatal lightning strikes since the start of 2021 and confirmed...
There is a place for both firearms and for non lethal tools such as OC spray, it’s not an either/or, these tools complement each other. There are many self defense situations where OC spray can easily be explained, while using a gun would result in felony charges. Not all self defense situations are a gun scenario.