Cases like this just don't get national news. Here a man with "an extensive criminal history" started firing an "AR-15 style firearm" into a crowd. Fortunately, a woman who was legally carrying a gun was there to stop the attack. Police said a woman who was lawfully...
While 19 children and two teachers were being murdered inside the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, police waited outside the school trying to decide what to do. Eventually it wasn't the police who entered, but a Border Patrol Tactical Unit. The murderer also...
Dr. John Lott talked to Shaun Thompson on Chicago's WIND-AM about his most recent piece in Real Clear Politics that compares our new survey on what Americans think is the percent of violent crime that involves guns to what the data actually shows. Hint the gap is very...
A new investigative report by James Varney at Real Clear Investigations worked closely with the CPRC's John Lott and Carl Moody on whether the Anti-Defamation League's claims about White Supremacists being a significant threat is accurate. The ADL also claims that...
Frequently in the solution to these mass shootings is to simply spend more money on mental health.
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Newsweek after the public school shooting in Texas. Another horrible tragedy occurred on Tuesday with the attack on the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. With 19 elementary school students slain, President Joe Biden was right...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a193V7dAFfE 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. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns...
When we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. When the law expired, mass shootings tripled. -- Joe Biden, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Transcript of Biden's Speech Tuesday night about the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas There was no...
A shooting at a Texas elementary school left 14 children and one teacher murdered. While about 30% of school districts in Texas 2020 had armed teachers and staff, unfortunately, the Robb Elementary School in the Uvalde, Texas CISD doesn't appear to be one of...
Dr. John Lott joined Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin to discuss Lott’s new piece at The Federalist titled: "Roe Destroyed Many Social Institutions That Are Unlikely To Return." (Wednesday, May 11, 2022, from 5:36 to 5:51 PM)...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion in the abortion case. (Saturday, May 14, 2022)
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist. In his Buffalo, New York speech last week following a mass shooting, President Biden showed he still has only two things on his mind regarding crime: guns and white supremacists..No one can defend white supremacists....