https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNgXapt_2bo Ann Coulter on the Crime Prevention Research Center's Estimates of the Cost of Prosecuting Illegals. The original research is available here and here.
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HBO’s Lanterns Pushing the Myth of the Dangers of Concealed Carry Handguns
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QURlbU_k0VM Since the Supreme Court's 2022 Bruen decision, television writers and producers have worked over time to try to convince Americans that concealed carry of handguns is dangerous. Unfortunately, HBO's Lanterns is not off to a...
Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports from 2014-2025 regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 3.9%, the correct number is at least 36.6%. Excluding gun-free zones, it averaged over 52.9%. In 2025, it was 58.3%.
Data: For convenience, the Excel file is available here, as well as a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories (see also here). We also show cases that the FBI missed of both armed and unarmed civilians stopping active shooting...
Rep Thomas Massie Mentions John Lott’s Research on Errors in the NICS Background Check System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5feyUQE-4xU Congressman Thomas Massie gives a speech on the House floor that mentions Dr. John Lott. Our discussion of the bill Massie is discussing is provided in this write up at Real Clear Politics. Democrats claim that 5.1 million...
Vince Vaughn Blacklisted in Hollywood for View on How to Stop School Shootings?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/S0EgWZLFGww We have previously written on Vince Vaughn's views on the danger or gun-free zones. From the New York Post: Von asked whether he had ever felt ostracized by Hollywood because of his beliefs and actions. “I got along with...
CPRC in the News: The Daily Caller, Red State, American Thinker, Patriot Post, BizPac Review, and more
“I think it is well timed and I think it will be, you know, something that will be mentioned in the assault weapon ban case,” Dr. John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told the DCNF. “It’s going to come up before the Supreme Court because it...
Colombia Lifting of Restrictions on the Carrying of Firearms
On September 8, 2026, President Abelardo De la Espriella signed Decree 1368, lifting Colombia’s nationwide suspension of permits to carry firearms. The decree ends the general prohibition on firearm-carry permits that Colombia had maintained since 2014. This follows...
Texas Democrats Find a “Gray” Area in Paying People to Vote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_OBCQi1k0 Sky McAdams, an organizing manager for Texas Majority PAC, says: “We are paying people $25 to attend a one-hour Zoom class to learn why voting is important and why the Republicans are causing all of these bad things. So it’s...
At the New York Post: Left’s push to delay deporting illegal-migrant criminals imposes huge costs on taxpayers
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the New York Post. Also linked at Real Clear Politics. . Much of today’s deportation debate centers on the question of who should count as “criminals” to be immediately sent back to their home countries — with anti-deportation...
At Real Clear Politics: CDC Undercounts Defensive Gun Uses
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. It was also published at The Blaze and World Net Daily. . Whoever controls crime data can shape the political debate. The Trump administration has already reversed some of the changes the Biden administration made...
News Coverage at the Washington Times: “The FBI says 16 shooters were stopped by civilians. One researcher counts 225”
Stephen Dinan at the Washington Times has a news story on our newest report on errors in the FBI's active shooting reports. Our report is available here and the underlying list of cases can be found here. As usual, "The FBI didn’t respond to a request for comment for...
CATO Institute Misrepresents U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines by Claiming Arrests and Criminal Charges Against Illegal Aliens Don’t Count Toward Their Criminal History and Completely Ignore Why “Rap Sheets” Include Arrests and Charges
Democrats and open borders organizations such as the CATO Institute think that only illegal aliens who have been convicted of crime should be deported, and even many times they don't think that those individuals should be deported. The media often follows this lead...