The MacArthur Foundation, Joyce Foundation, Sixteen Thirty, Windward, and Hopewell funds are providing money to push the message that gun ownership makes people less safe. From Fox News: A left-wing group aiming to shift public opinion against firearms quietly...
Dr. John Lott talked to Chuck Woolery and Dr. Mark Young on why crime increased over the last couple of years, the FBI's errors in its active shooting database, why inflation has increased, the business cycle, and what the national debt means. (Wednesday, October 5,...
How often is someone caught on film filling in someone else's ballot? This illustrates how difficult it can be to catch this type of vote fraud. An Arizona Democrat, Guillermina Fuentes, a 66-year-old school board member and former mayor of the border town...
Dr. John Lott spoke to the Miami Freedom Forum about the debate over gun policy in the United States. (Friday, October 7, 2022, from 11:00 to 11:26 AM)
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.
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...
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=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...