This past Sunday, four people were injured after a fight between two teenagers at Lancaster’s Park City Center Mall escalated into a shooting this past weekend. A 16-year-old who was illegally carrying a gun started the shooting. But it could have been much worse were...
Dr. John Lott talked to Pastor Greg on his national radio show that is heard on 51 different stations about why gun crime is increasing and the increase in concealed handgun permits. (Thursday, October 14, 2021)
The Social Science Research Network’s eLibrary provides 950,733 research papers from 503,172 researchers in more than 65 disciplines. Dr. John Lott’s work was the 14th most downloaded researcher ever. No other researcher or university or center has even a fraction as...
A report released Friday finds that the number of concealed carry gun permits in the country rose 10.5% in the last year, growing to more than 21 million people.The report, issued by the Crime Prevention Research Center, finds that the number of people...
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on the 250 radio stations that carry Armed American Radio about the recent school shooting in Texas, our research on school shootings, and why crime is out of control in Chicago. Sorry that the quality of the sound on this, but Dr....
The Park City Mall at 142 Park City Center, Lancaster, PA 17601 had a shooting. But as happens time after time, this was another place where citizens are banned from having guns for protection. Police confirm to Action News that multiple people inside the mall were...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about our new report on the record increase this last year in concealed handgun permits. (Wednesday, October 13, 2021, from 8:33 to 8:42 AM)
A new Ryan Reynolds movie, Free Guy, has it dig about gun violence in the United States. Guy (Ryan Reynolds): Milley, how many times a day are the banks robbed in your world? Molotov Girl (Jodie Comer): Hardly ever, Guy. Guy: What about corpses, Milley? Do you see a...
Dr. John Lott talked to Aaron Flint on the Montana Talks Network about his 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." (Tuesday, October 5, 2021, from 10:20 to...
Marie Beren was involved in election counts since 1984. This appears to be something that was happening all across Philadelphia. The government claims that the consultant in question directed Beren to add fraudulent votes to candidates supported by the consultant. In...
CBS put out all sorts of misinformation on crime and policing so it is useful to point out once in a while when they put police in a positive light (including many episodes of Blue Bloods: here, here, here, and here). In this episode of Blue Bloods (S12 E1, October 1,...
An attack with a bow and arrow in Norway left five people murdered and four wounded. These attacks in other countries get little attention. Norway has 1/61st the population of the United States. Police first received word of an attack in the town of Kongsberg,...