Stateline quoted John Lott saying, “All you do by creating a gun-free zone is creating a magnet — just read the diaries and manifestos. All you do is create a magnet for those who want to go and kill people.” . . .
With the increase of Islamic terror attacks here in the U.S., experts say it serves as yet another reminder that President Trump needs to continue mass deportations. No matter what the left says about it.
“You know, it’s not rocket science” said John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, “If you want to go and reduce crime, you have to make it risky for criminals to go and commit crime.”
And after millions of illegals poured into the country under Joe Biden, the upswing in attacks should not be a surprise. And the numbers don’t lie.
“It’s not a coincidence, that at the same time we had this record inflow of illegal aliens during the Biden administration, we had the largest percentage increase in felony violent crime that we’ve ever seen, that we’ve ever recorded” Lott told KTRH.
Which is why the mass deportations are so important, not just for right now, but for the future of our nation.
“I think it’s important if he wants to save lives” noted Lott, “The left wants to claim that these policies are racist, and yet the very lives that they’re saving are people that the Democrats claim that they care about.” . . .
B.D. Hobbs, “Why Trump Needs To Stand Firm On Mass Deportations,” WOAI News Radio, March 15, 2026.
For most Americans, such people are justly pariahs. Fortunately, Dr. John R. Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Centerkeeps track of the facts, in this case, via Real Clear Politics: . . .
Mike McDaniel, “The real mass shooter threat,” American Thinker, March 18, 2026.
Addressing this Tuesday, John R. Lott Jr. writes at RealClearPolitics:
March alone saw multiple terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims. In Austin, a terrorist wore a sweatshirt reading “Property of Allah” during an attack. In New York City, bomb throwers shouted “Allahu Akbar” while throwing a homemade shrapnel bomb. At Old Dominion University, a shooter also yelled “Allahu Akbar” and had previously been convicted of supporting ISIS. Another attacker, whose brother was a Hezbollah terrorist commander, targeted Temple Israel in Michigan, and yet another attack, involving three men of Iraqi origin, targeted the U.S. embassy in Norway. The Austin, Old Dominion, and New York City bombers and the Michigan synagogue attackers were also all foreign-born individuals who were naturalized U.S. citizens.
Terrorist attacks take many forms. For example, the January 2025 truck attack in New Orleans, with an ISIS flag on the truck, left 14 people dead and 47 injured.
Of course, some will dismiss the above as anecdotal and possibly cherry-picked. So what do the statistics show?
The Data
In presenting stats, Lott writes that he’s going to
focus the discussion on one type of attack that has been extensively studied: mass public shootings. Researchers define a mass public shooting as an attack in which a perpetrator kills four or more people at one time in a public place, excluding crimes such as gang fights or robberies.
And here’s a summary of Lott’s findings:
— From January 1998 to December 2025, the U.S. had 108 mass public shootings involving 111 shooters.
— Muslims committed eight of these shootings (7.2 percent), while averaging about 0.4 percent of the American population — making their share of attacks roughly 18 times their population size.
— By contrast, only seven attackers (6.5 percent) expressed white supremacist, neo-Nazi, or anti-immigrant views.
— Some “anti-immigrant” attackers (e.g., El Paso, Dayton, Buffalo) also cited environmentalist motivations, concerns about population growth harming sustainability, anti-capitalist views, support for worker ownership, and leftist/Democratic leanings — yet media often labels them broadly as right-wing extremists or white supremacists.
— The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) claims all extremist violence from 2022-2024 was committed by right-wing perpetrators, asserts Lott. Yet it excluded cases such as Audrey Hale (Nashville Covenant School, 2023; anti-“white privilege”), Robert Crimo (Highland Park, 2022; anti-Trump), and Connor Sturgeon (Louisville; pro-BLM, anti-police/Trump). . . . . [and much more]
Selwyn Duke, “The Lord Voldemort of Terror Threats Must Be Named,” New American, March 18, 2026.
The Crime Prevention Research Center just dropped a new report, and it’s already stirring debate.
Dr. John Lott and his team examined FBI active shooting data from 2018 through 2024. And they argue that much of the public conversation has been statistically incomplete.
The headline claim?
When you adjust for population share, transgender individuals appear disproportionately represented in active shooting and mass public shooting cases, particularly in 2024. . . . [much longer discussion]
As John R. Lott, Jr., the foremost authority on the statistics of gun ownership and crime, has said, “There is a clear consensus among economists about self-defense, gun-free zones, firearms and suicide, and concealed handgun laws. Among North American economists: • Eighty-eight percent say that guns are more frequently ‘used in self-defense than they are used in the commission of crime.’ • Ninety-one percent believe that gun-free zones are ‘more likely to attract criminals than they are to deter them.’ • Seventy-two percent do not agree that ‘a gun in the home causes an increase in the risk of suicide.’ • Ninety-one percent say that ‘concealed handgun permit holders are much more law-abiding than the typical American.’• Eighty-one percent say that permitted concealed handguns lower the murder rate.”
Some people acknowledge that people have the right to own guns, but they favor restrictions like gun registration. Lott’s research shows that these measures aren’t needed: “Whether in Canada, Hawaii, Chicago, or Washington, D.C., police are unable to point to a single instance of gun registration aiding the investigation of a violent crime. In a 2013 deposition, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said that the department could not ‘recall any specific instance where registration records were used to determine who committed a crime.’ . . . .
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, “We Need Our Guns,” LewRockwell.com, March 16, 2026.
The Crime Prevention Research Center found that individuals identifying as transgender accounted for a disproportionately high share of perpetrators in “active shooting attacks.” The research center, which drew from raw FBI crime data, published a Feb. 20 report that stated, “In 2024 transgender individuals committed active shooting attacks at least 12 times their share of the population and possibly more than 16 times their share.” . . .
A 2006 study by the Crime Prevention Research Center found “[i]t is hard to see any evidence that voting regulations differentially harm either minorities, the elderly, or the poor,” and that “[r]egulations that prevent fraud are shown to actually increase the voter participation rate.” . . .
“SAVE America Act Tops Election Reform Popularity,” Mirage, March 11, 2026.
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