Mobile, AL, April 4, 2022 (Fox 10 TV) Daniel Ruffin is charged with attempted murder, domestic violence, and other crimes following the April 4 incident.According to police, Ruffin fired at the car on Illinois Street. No one was hit by the bullets, but a child inside...
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On 710 KURV McAllen, Texas: Discussing the Real Solution to Gun Crime
Dr. John Lott talked on 710 KURV in McAllen, Texas about the real solution to gun crime. See also Dr. Lott's piece at Real Clear Investigations titled: "There Are Far More Defensive Gun Uses Than Murders in America. Here’s Why You Rarely Hear of Them." Thursday,...
On WMAL’s O’Connor & Company: To discuss President Biden’s recent gun control push
Dr. John Lott talked to Larry O'Connor and Patrice Onwuka about President Biden's call for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. See also the latest op-ed Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) & Dr. John Lott wrote at Newsweek:...
Senator Ted Cruz referencing Crime Prevention Research Center research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-INcpcdWZAE Here are videos of Senator Ted Cruz twice referencing Crime Prevention Research Center work: May 27th at the NRA annual convention and May 29th on the podcast The Verdict. The research that he is referencing can be found...
On St Louis’ Giant KLJY-FM: Discussing how the media and Democrats have misinformed Americans about guns
Dr. John Lott talked to Randy Tobler on St. Louis' giant KLJY-FM about Lott's recent pieces at Real Clear Politics ("When Misinformation Drives Gun Bad Policy") and Townhall ("Media Falsely Claim Mass Public Shooters are ‘Right-wingers’ When They’re Environmental...
At Real Clear Politics: Gov. Hochul Short on Answers, Thin on Data
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. When a local reporter in Albany, New York, asked Gov. Kathy Hochul if she had “the numbers to show it’s the concealed carry permit holders that are committing crimes,” Hochul dismissed the question outright. “I...
On the Bob Zadek Show: Gun Control Myths
Bob Zadek writes: My inaugural Substack post is the "cliffnotes" version of @JohnRLottJr's "Gun Control Myths." The biggest myth of all? That gun control controls gun violence, any more than the War on Drugs has stopped people from taking drugs. (June 3, 2022)...
Responding to George Will’s misleading column on the Supreme Court’s recent gun control decision
George Will had a column that was published in the Washington Post that condemned the Supreme Court's ruling in Bruen. Will relied heavily on an Amicus brief from retired federal Appeals Court Judge J. Michael Luttig which cited the 1897 Supreme Court case Robertson...
Bruen Gun Case Already Impacting other Gun Cases that had been appealed to the Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to vacate lower court rulings in several gun rights cases and remand them back to lower courts for review “in light of” last week’s landmark 6-3 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen. Among these cases...
Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin mention Crime Prevention Research Center research that shows that the US is not unique in terms of mass public shootings on their radio shows
Ben Shapiro read from a piece that Dr. John Lott had in Newsweek titled "Democrats’ Focus On ‘Gun Control’ Won’t Solve Any of Our Problems." Since 1998, there have been a total of nine attacks similar to the Robb Elementary School shooting. Nine is nine too many. But...
On The Vicki McKenna Show: Discussing the Supreme Court ruling on New York’s gun law
Dr. John Lott joined Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin to discuss the Supreme Court's ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen and the Senate's new gun control bill. (Thursday, June 23, 2022) Vicki’s show...
New York Gun Permitting Would Check Social Media: Using people’s speech to determine whether they should be able to have a gun for protection?
New York would require people applying for a handgun license to turn over a list of their social media accounts so officials could verify their ‘character and conduct’ under a bill being considered Friday by the state Legislature. The provision was part of a proposed...












