Here is another article that has come out from Dr. John Lott’s talks in Argentina.
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October 15, 2025. Three months ago, at the NH Tango Hotel, convened by the Federation of Legitimate Users of Argentina (FLUA) and the Association of Legitimate Users of the Province of Buenos Aires (ALUPROBA), economist John Lott gave his presentation. He is well-known in the sector for publications such as “More Guns, Less Crime” and “Myths of Gun Control.”
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Present were RENAR officials, along with officials from the Ministries of Security of the Nation and the City of Buenos Aires, various police authorities, politicians, including, most notably, Senator Florencia Arietto for the Province of Buenos Aires, representatives of industry and sports, gun manufacturers, the top brass of BERSA, and various journalists.
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John Lott presented interesting statistics about our country and compared them with North American statistics. The analysis of these data went beyond a simple “gun defense.” For expert eyes who read between the lines, John Lott gave us a roadmap for developing effective public security policies based on a powerful, equipped, and trained police force, strong laws with harsh sentences, and the power of responsibly armed civilians to deter and reduce crime.
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Probably the most intense moment of the evening came when, speaking of international statistics, John Lott asked: “Tell me, in which country did crime decrease after implementing a citizen disarmament policy?” Faced with a hush in the room, he categorically responded: “In none.”
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Thus, debunking all the disarmament policies promoted by NGOs and government agencies.
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The Failed Disarmament of the United Kingdom
As an example of failed disarmament, he cited the United Kingdom. To summarize, in 1997, the United Kingdom had one of the lowest homicide rates in its history. Citizen disarmament was later introduced as a policy to reduce violence and crime. The result of this was not long in coming: the homicide rate and crime soared uncontrollably into the stratosphere..
It took the British almost 30 years to return to an acceptable homicide rate only after recruiting huge numbers of police and prison officers, changing laws and harsher sentencing, building modern prisons, and implementing preventive technology, but it still hasn’t reached the initial rate of 1997.
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The question is obvious: was the disarmament and the tons of public funds burned worth it to obtain, after 28 years, a worse result than at the beginning in 1997? The answer is clearly no. Not only from a monetary perspective, but also because of the horrific cost in human lives lost to crime that Her Gracious Majesty’s disarmament policy left in the balance.
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Another myth that John Lott debunked, demonstrating it with real statistics, is the famous passivity promoted by anti-crime organizations and television media, which is to avoid provoking the criminal. We already know that journalists and anti-crime activists, when faced with a crime, advise “doing nothing that might upset the aggressor,” as if the aggressor weren’t ready to attack. Thus, the victim, faced with a crime, has to allow themselves to be robbed, raped, and killed because the perpetrator is a poor “misunderstood victim of society.”
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John Lott demonstrated that the victim’s passivity only serves to make the situation worse and escalate into worse things. And if the victim is a woman and acts passively, it’s even worse: she is 2.5 times more likely to be murdered than a man. The best alternative a victim has is to defend herself, and if she is armed, even better.
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For those interested, the full lecture can be found online. I highly recommend watching it because of the interesting conclusions drawn from local Argentine data and statistics. John Lott’s lecture in Buenos Aires was a real treat.
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Christián Socolovsky, “John Lott En Argentina,” Aire Libre, October 15, 2025.
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