Colion Noir, “Australia’s Gun Control Experiment Has A Dark Side,” YouTube, June 15, 2026.
As for e), Trump’s supposed lawless deportations, economist John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center wrote:
“The 170 ICE-detained US citizens … included about 130 arrested for interfering with or assaulting officers … justifiable under any reading of the law …
“Only about 40 or so of those who were detained claimed to be US citizens accidentally or erroneously arrested by ICE. … Most were released in a few hours.
“…40 mistakes out of 595,000 arrests amounts to an error rate of just 0.0067% — roughly one wrongful detention for every 14,925 arrests.
“By contrast (during the Obama administration) … In fiscal years 2015 and 2016, ICE recorded 263 mistaken arrests, 54 mistaken detentions (book-ins), and four mistaken removals … about one mistake for every 4,444 arrests …”
But just how dangerous are the switch-equipped Glocks? Fortunately, Dr. John R. Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center keeps track of such things, much to the annoyance of the anti-liberty/gun crowd. He’s among the rarest of contemporary researchers. He makes his methodology and data sets available on request, so other scientists can confirm or falsify his results, which is how science is supposed to be done, but almost never is anymore. His results are not happy-making for Democrats:
Graphic: CPRC, used with permission.
We have tried to do an exhaustive search on cases where a Glock-style gun with a switch was used to murder people, but it is quite possible that we have missed some cases. The total that we have so far found is 43 murders from 20 attacks where someone was murdered, so slightly more than two people murdered per case. Part of the reason for their infrequent use is the danger that these devices pose to those who are using them. California and now Maryland and Connecticut have passed bans on Glocks or Glock-style guns because they use cruciform trigger bars. New York will soon finish enacting this ban. New Jersey is in the process of putting a registry together on people who have bought those guns since the beginning of 2016. There is no evidence that law-abiding gun owners are converting their handguns, and even the advocates for these laws focus on only the threat by criminal gangs. The NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation have brought lawsuits against these gun bans.
Oh. Considering there were 81 fatal lightning strikes in the same period, just how much of a problem is this, really?
The question is also how many of these murders would still have occurred even without a switch being used on these guns. More than half of these cases involve just one or two people being murdered so it is quite possible these attacks could have been accomplished with an unaltered handgun. Obviously, any murder should be prevented, but as a comparison, over the 2021 to 2024 period there were 80,657 murders(20,164 per year). Of those, 6,147 used knives or other cutting instruments and 1,968 involved rifles. So that means that over the five plus years from 2021 to May 2026, only the equivalent of 0.67% of the murders with knives and other cutting instruments over the four years from 2021 to 2024 involved Glock switches. Only an amount of 2.08% compared to murders with rifles. And only 0.051% of all murders.
Lott doesn’t identify the race or avocation of those killed, but I’d say it’s a certainty they could have been killed with unaltered handguns, and regularly are.
Mike McDaniel, “The nearly nonexistent scourge of Glock switches,” American Thinker, June 14, 2025.
John R. Lott Jr., president of the US-based Crime Prevention Research Center, also weighed in on X, arguing that commonly cited crime statistics do not capture the full picture of criminal victimization.
Lott cited data that he said showed Canada’s violent crime victimization rate was substantially higher than that of the United States.
“Canada’s crime problem is worse than people realize,” he said, adding that the country’s “overall violent crime victimization rate was 295% higher than the US rate.”
He also pointed to robbery and property crime statistics, arguing that Canadians face a significantly higher risk of robbery and burglary than Americans.
“Canadians are roughly 366 times more likely to be robbed than to become homicide victims,” Lott said.
“Property crime shows a similar pattern.” . . .
Daley faz parte de um número crescente de americanos que decidiram portar armas de fogo em meio ao aumento dos índices de criminalidade. UM nova pesquisa de 1.000 eleitores nas eleições gerais dos EUA, realizado no mês passado pela McLaughlin & Associates, revelou que quase 30% dos entrevistados disseram portar uma arma de fogo. Mais precisamente, a pesquisa descobriu que 13,2% dos entrevistados disseram que carregam uma arma de fogo o tempo todo ou a maior parte do tempo, enquanto outros 16,6% disseram que carregam uma às vezes ou raramente. Estes resultados mostram um aumento de 5,5% no número de entrevistados que afirmaram portar armas de fogo desde que uma pesquisa semelhante foi realizada em dezembro de 2024. E o número continuará a aumentar à medida que mais estados aderirem ao movimento pró-armas.
“Em 2022, seis estados – Califórnia, Havaí, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nova Jersey e Nova York – tornaram mais fácil para os cidadãos obterem uma licença oculta de porte de arma, eliminando a discricionariedade arbitrária e estabelecendo regras objetivas sobre treinamento e outras qualificações”, John R. Lott observado em investigações realmente claras. . . .
Firearms sales went through the roof during COVID and 2020’s social unrest as people scrambled to deal with a world that seemed to be coming apart at the seams. Previously thought of—with a great deal of exaggeration—as the domain of white male rural-dwellers, gun ownership became increasingly diverse as women and minorities acquired the means of self-defense. A recent survey finds that many people among the growing ranks of gun owners are carrying their tools for protection.
Concealed Carry Became More Common Since 2024
“In the survey, 13.2% carry all/most of the time, with another 16.6% carrying sometimes/rarely,” the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) announced last month of the results of a survey conducted by McLaughlin & Associates. “The percent who carry all or most [of] the time is virtually the same as the percent who carried similarly in December 2024. But the percent who carry at [least] some of the time or rarely has increase[d] by 5.4 percentage points (from 11.2% to 16.6%). So the total who are carrying increased by 5.5 percentage points (from 24.3% to 29.8%).” . . .
J.D. Tuccille, “Survey: More Americans Are Carrying Concealed Guns,” Reason, June 19, 2026.
That it happened at all in Massachusetts—a state known for restrictive gun control laws—is far rarer, while elsewhere around the country, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center, “defensive gun uses are 5.06 times more (likely) than firearms used in crime.” . . .
Meanwhile, 29 American states no longer require law-abiding individuals to have a permit to carry a concealed handgun, and gun owners are increasingly embracing the freedom to carry firearms for defensive use outside the home. A survey of general election voters commissioned by Dr. John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center(CPRC) found that almost 30% of respondents said they carry a firearm, a 5.5% increase since the last such poll in December 2024. Of those, 13.2% said they carry a firearm all or most of the time and 16.6% replied they carry sometimes or rarely. The CPRC makes the especially interesting point that loosening carry permit requirements in six states, as required to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen decision, not only resulted in an “enormous increase in the number of permits issued” but, contrary to grim predictions by politicians and gun control activists, violent crime in those states actually declined. . . .
Murder in the United States is primarily limited to a few small areas
A recent study of 2020 homicide rates by John Lott, president of Crime Prevention Research Center, found that:
Just 2% of counties had 56% of the murders, while
52% of US counties had zero murders.Murder isn’t a nationwide problem. It’s a problem in a few urban counties (run by corrupt Democrats). Even in such counties, murders are primarily limited to a few small areas.
Consider Los Angeles County, California, for example
Figure 7 shows the distribution of murders across zip codes in Los Angeles County, California in 2020. The worst 10% of the zip codes account for 41% of the murders, the worst 20% have 67%, and the worst 30% have 82%. By contrast, the safest 40% of the counties have just 1% of the murders. . . .
Violent Crime in Canada Is 295% Higher Than in the U.S.
— Crime Prevention Research Centre, By John Lott
— 11 June 2026
More People in U.S. Are Carrying Concealed Handguns, Survey Shows
— Crime Prevention Research Centre, By John Lott
— 21 May 2026
— Related: Survey: More Americans Are Carrying Concealed Guns
Staff, “Canada Gun Rights News: Week of 2026 June 15,” The Gun Blog.CA, June 21, 2026.
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