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....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_NQc0OPDLk 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, the first two episodes of ABC’s The...
Dr. John Lott talked to Ryan Wiggins on 97.1 FM Talk in St. Louis about Dr. Lott’s piece with Steve Smith at The Federalist on the problems in matching the number of ballots cast with the number of voters listed as voting: “To Restore Americans’ Faith...
Dr. John Lott talked to Vince Coglianese on Washington, DC's WMAL about the FBI underreporting incidents of "good guys with a gun" preventing violent crime. The discussion is related to our new research on massive errors in the FBI’s Active Shooting Reports regarding...
This case shows one of the dangers of absentee ballots. . Jason Schofield, 42, of Troy, New York, was arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel J. Stewart on an indictment charging him with unlawfully using the names and dates of birth of voters to fraudulently...
"It is unconscionable that anyone would bring deadly weapons where our city’s children gather to play," said Mayor Kenney. "We will not tolerate the endangerment of children and families while they are in the care of our treasured community spaces, and we must do...
Fox News has a new piece up on our research today. The study's author suggests 'really biased' framing of poll questions greatly skews support for red flag laws.A new study shows that the attitude of Americans toward red flag laws, where guns are taken away from...
This attack was worse than any school shooting in the US. Only the Bath School bombing in 1927 had more murders, with 45 people dying. Thirty-four people were murdered at the school, plus the man also murdered his wife and child at home. Thirty-seven people have been...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Tsgf-_rzo As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so...