Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Wall Street Journal. . Blue-state gun laws are back before the Supreme Court. The justices barred states in 2022 from requiring concealed-handgun permit applicants to demonstrate a need for the license. Rather than comply with...
Dr. John Lott talked to Jeff Stein on Iowa's giant 50,000-watt about his new op-ed at the New York Post on illegal-immigrant crime. (Thursday, January 8, 2026)
Some people claim that 32 people died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody last year (2025). Between January 20th, 2025 and the end of November, the Trump administration arrested 595,000 illegal aliens and deported 605,000. So the rate last year...
Dr. John Lott appeared on The Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham Show to discuss illegal-immigrant crime. The show is on 375 stations nationwide. See also Dr. Lott's new op-ed at the New York Post titled "New data reveals the horrific truth about illegal-immigrant...
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation reports the federal government “agreed to give at least $149,760” to the Cape Breton Regional Municipality to carry out the confiscation. In addition, $26,535 was paid to the 16 individuals whose guns were purchased. Those costs total...
Students, reporters, and researchers already rely heavily on AI chatbot programs to write term papers, media reports, and research papers, and social media influencers frequently cite them as well. Thirteen AI chatbots are currently available for public use, as...
Dr. John Lott and CPRC senior fellow Kesten Green, who is also a researcher at the Adelaide University, College of Business and Law, have a new op-ed piece in the Spectator Australia. More information on this issue is provided in our post here. An additional reason...
Dr. John Lott and CPRC senior fellow Kesten Green, who is also a researcher at the Adelaide University, College of Business and Law, compared the violent crime rates in Australia and the United States. Australian are clearly at much greater risk of violent crime than...
Dr. John Lott was joined by his wife, Laura Lott to host Gun Radio Utah for their last show of the year for the full hour. Among other topics, they discussed the information in this New York Post article titled "New data reveals the horrific truth about...
We have updated our earlier research to examine the FBI's active shooting data over the eleven years from 2014 to 2024. The new research is available here. . The FBI tracks active shooting cases—where individuals attempt to kill people in public places, excluding...
The behavior of major retailers, who own large swaths of private property open to the public, aligns with these preferences. Some of the country’s biggest chains—including Walmart, Costco, Kroger, Walgreens, CVS, and Target—generally prohibit their customers from...
https://www.youtube.com/live/v3sFcTkBjIs Dr. John Lott appeared on Andrew Branca's show to discuss a range of issues from his piece in the New York Post on crime by illegal aliens to his writings on gun control in Australia. The Branca show's description of the...