Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Cunningham on his national Sunday radio show about some of his experiences working in the US Department of Justice as Senior Advisor for Research and Statistics in the Office of Justice Programs and the Office of Legal Policy. (Sunday,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRHU52SUTzk Dr. John Lott talked to Cam Edwards on his show Cam & Co about the CPRC's new research on the errors in the FBI active shooting reports. According to the FBI, armed citizens have stopped less than 5% of mass shootings,...
Dr. John Lott will speak to the Federalist Society at McGeorge Law School on October 20th at 12:15 PM.
Dr. John Lott joined Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network to discuss a recent study that underscored how easily public opinion polling can be used to distort, rather than illuminate, peoples’ true feelings on gun control. See also Dr. Lott’s piece at...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5yGTbEK0U4 As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, CBS's entertainment television shows...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxzyEV5AW5k CBS's FBI Most Wanted first episode in Season 4 is filled with misinformation about guns. One example is the use of a machine gun to kill a police officer, what the show refers to as an assault weapon. As the Crime...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pav1XCHqYiM Dr. John Lott spoke in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil, on August 4th, 2022. His speech focused on Brazil's experience with loosening gun control laws. It expanded on the piece that he recently published in the Wall Street...
Dr. John Lott talked to Peter Christiansen and Nick Chrestenson on KGVO-AM’s Talk Back program for a half hour about Dr. Lott’s new piece at Real Clear Politics titled: “Media Spin on Gun Control Doesn’t Match Voters’ Opinions" (Monday, October 12, 2022, from 10:30 AM...
A young man was beaten twice and shot at because he had helped police solve a crime. He was forced to move and take other precautions to protect himself. But the police said he had not met the “imminent and compelling” emergency standard for carrying a concealed...
Hopefully, only non-citizens have a non-citizen driver's license, but given that "Colorado does not verify citizenship," it appears to be an honor system. The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office mailed postcards to roughly 30,000 non-citizens living in the state...
Dr. John Lott talked to Gary Nolan on KSSZ-FM across central Missouri about Dr. Lott’s book, “Gun Control Myths: How politicians, the media, and botched ‘studies’ have twisted the facts on gun control.” (Tuesday, September 27, 2022, from 9:37 to 9:50 AM)
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Meyer on Oregon's KMED about Dr. Lott's latest paper with Steve Smith from the America First Policy Institute on counties and states inability to measure the gap between the number of voters with the number of ballots cast in elections....