https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajZLhOf0a2M Dr. John Lott appeared on Real America's Voice Live to discuss the recent 9th Circuit Court decision that declared the closure of gun stores and shooting ranges in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties in California to be...
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On Radio Free Hillsdale Hour: Is Ensuring Election Integrity Anti-Democratic?
Dr. John Lott talks with host Scot Bertram on the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour about his recent piece at Imprimis titled "Is Ensuring Election Integrity Anti-Democratic?" Thursday, January 6, 2022
Arbitrary Social Media Censorship, this time by YouTube
In April 2021, John Lott did an interview with America's Voice about the problems with Mail-in ballots in Missoula, Montana. YouTube says that the video that we posted there violated their community standards on "Elections misinformation policies." They say "This...
Survey: Voters overwhelmingly believe that making sure that there is no cheating in elections than to make it easier to vote; by an even larger margin they don’t believe voter photo IDs discriminated against voters
A new Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 likely US voters shows that voters are overwhelmingly more concerned about preventing vote fraud than making voting easier and that they don't believe voter photo IDs discriminate against some voters. The margins in both cases...
A reminder of being careful about advice from public health officials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-3PiY_CqoY Something to remember when dealing with public health people when they talk about other issues that they consider themselves experts on, such as gun control.
On the Las Vegas’ big KXNT Show To Discuss Defensive Gun Use And The Consequences of Lowering Criminal Penalties Is An Increase In Crime
Dr. John Lott was on the Las Vegas’ 50,000-watt KXNT to talk about the consequences of lowering criminal penalties is an increase in crime. Also discussed was lawful defensive gun use occurs five times more than criminal gun use. Monday, January 10, 2022, 9:35 to 9:47...
CPRC in the News: Fox Business/Fox News, Washington Examiner, The National Interest, Omaha World Herald, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, and much more
John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told FOX Business the judges ruled the counties didn’t even try to justify why they closed gun stores, violating the right of citizens to self-defense."The orders by Los Angeles and Ventura counties...
On Cam & Co: Stalking Victim: You Are Your Own First Responder
Monday, January 24, 2022 CPRC's Nikki Goeser talks with Cam Edwards of Bearing Arms, about her newest op-ed piece at Townhall titled "It Shouldn't Take a Bullet To The Head For The Criminal Justice System To Take Stalking Seriously."...
On Chicago’s WIND-AM: Analyzing guns sales and crime rates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiLu9MacxAc Dr. John Lott talked with Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson on Chicago's top morning radio talk show on WIND-AM. They discussed the claim that increased gun sales were responsible for the rise in violent crime over the last two...
Changes in Crime and Killings of Police After Constitutional Carry Adopted
We have previously provided empirical work on the impact of Constitutional Carry Laws (download the paper here, and see particularly Table 3), but sometimes simple graphs that show the year-by-year changes are more convincing. With Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Indiana,...
Smart Gun Fails During Demonstration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OFBU6l2Qeg Despite the video being ended quickly, after the first round he kept pulling the trigger but the gun wouldn't fire. If you listen carefully, you can even hear the trigger making a clicking sound when he continued pulling it...
On KTIE Politics & Issues: Some California Legislators want gun manufacturers sued to put them out of business
Dr. John Lott talks with host Larry Marino about the efforts by some in the California State Legislature to pass laws making it easier to sue gun manufacturers. Saturday, January 15, 2022












