Here is the audio and PowerPoint for Dr. John Lott's recent talk in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 13th. This talk has Lott speaking in English followed by a translator speaking in Spanish. Argentina-Talk-2025-without-videoDownload The video in the presentation is...
Screenshot John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and former senior advisor for Research and Statistics in the U.S. Department of Justice, told The Washington Stand that if the trend continues, the country will experience the lowest ever murder...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. It was also published in World Net Daily. . Paul Krugman remains one of the left’s most influential voices. In his latest column, he argues that President Trump avoids taking credit for the drop in murders...
Comparisons of crime rates across countries often focus on homicides or murders. In 2025, the U.S. murder rate will be about 4 per 100,000 people—roughly 10% higher than Argentina's 2025 homicide rate of 3.6 per 100,000. It looks like the U.S. murder rate for the...
UPDATE August 14, 2026: Include the new graph at the top. So there was a 86% increase in licensed firearm owners from 2017 to 2018. There was another 238% increase from 2018 to 2019. Between the year before Balsonaro took office in 2019 to his last year in office...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NynuhqmDdQs John Lott is a noted economist who has studies crime in America, and specifically the correlation between crime and gun ownership. In this video with Frank Miniter of The Armed Citizen Podcast, Lott talks about why America...
Dr. John Lott talked to Leland Conway about his new piece at Real Clear Politics titled "America’s Murder Problem Is Smaller Than It Looks," which discusses how heavily concentrated murders are in the U.S. (Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 11:35 to 11:49 AM ET)
Dr. John Lott appeared on the Cincinnati's WLW with Bill Cunningham to discuss the SAVE America Act, election integrity, and voter fraud. See also Dr. Lott's op-ed at Townhall titled "Why We Need the SAVE America Act." (Monday, July 20, 2026)
The Crime Prevention Research Center commissioned a new McLaughlin & Associates survey of 1,000 American general election voters on July 22nd, 2026 (cross tabs available here). Despite frequent claims that the public supports gun control as a way to reduce crime,...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. . Democrats insist that "Black Lives Matter," yet many increasingly embrace policies that protect violent criminals at the expense of black victims. . What these Democrats ignore is that criminals overwhelmingly...
A new report from the Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA) finds that reported violent crime declined across every category in the United States compared with 2025. The organization highlighted the broad decline as the first across-the-board drop since 2019, before...
Given how incredibly rare it is for the New York Times to give positive news coverage to a civilian who stopped a mass public shooting (and these occur all the time without getting news coverage), you have to give them credit when they do cover such a story. . Jordan...