https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXkkm4Wqj5k A knife-wielding woman from Colombia sparked panic at a Dollar General store in Polk County, though she was eventually stopped by a pair of armed citizens, according to Sheriff Grady Judd on Wednesday. . . . "She pulled out...
But the Crime Prevention Research Center did its own study and found the FBI missed a number of cases and misclassified others. CPRC said when those are included properly, “good guys with guns” were involved in stopping more than a third of active-shooter attacks....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZWcWJRlnoY Television crime shows continue to portray frequent murders with machine guns. The Crime Prevention Research Center has repeatedly shown that these depictions are far from reality, yet many shows still suggest that...
A report by Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) president John Lott shows armed citizens stopped a third of all “active shooter incidents” from 2014 through 2025. Lott then presented the CPRC data as a correction to FBI reports which claim armed citizens...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQSle5qM57A Dr. John Lott joined One America News on October 15, 2026 to discussion his new op-ed at The Federalist titled: "New Trump Admin Stats Prove Good Guys With Guns Save Lives."
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R70HCsH-cPA Trump: "Just today, it was announced by the Department of Justice that last year we had over 100,000 fewer rapes, 170,000 fewer robberies, half a million fewer burglaries, and almost 700,000 fewer violent crimes than when I...
On Monday, October 26, 2026, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported that felony violent crime fell 25% in 2025. Rape declined 13%, robbery dropped 27%, aggravated assault plunged 31%, and property crime fell 19%. Except for rape, these were the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9537mKFuYM Dr. John Lott appeared on Ed Martin's Real America's Voice about how the federal government consistently downplays evidence that armed, law-abiding citizens can stop public mass-casualty attacks. The discussion followed...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations on the record drop in violent crime during 2025 and the historic low murder rate. Also posted at The Epoch Times and Zero Hedge and linked to at HotAir. . The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on...
We have previously written on the systematic errors in Cato's claims about the supposedly low crime rates by illegal aliens ("Illegal immigrant crime rates higher than Cato Institute wants you to believe"). But it is worth fleshing out those arguments more completely....
Murders vary a lot over the course of a year. Before Trump intervened, Memphis had the nation’s fourth-highest murder rate among cities with more than 100,000 residents, while D.C. ranked 11th. Trump took federal control of D.C.’s policing on August 11, 2025....
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at National Review Online. . Two days after last week’s attack on an Oregon elementary school, the Associated Press opened a news story with a familiar claim: “Few mass shootings in the U.S. end like the deadly attack on an...