https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zSEGh73TnzA A 27-year-old gunman opened fire outside a Price Chopper in Pleasant Hill on Monday, killing a 45-year-old woman and injuring a 17-year-old employee. . . Ryan Gamboa, "Community in shock after 1st shooting in Pleasant Hill in...
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At Real Clear Investigations: Gun Safety: Violent Crime Drops as More Americans Pack Heat
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations. It also appeared in the Epoch Times, Hot Air, Zero Hedge, Tennessee Star, Times-Leader (Fairfield, MT), The Daily News, Sign of the Times, and Ohio Press Network. . Alessandra Coote was walking on a trail...
At Townhall: Democrats Keep Showing They Want to Ban Guns
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall. . Gun control advocates are trying a new tactic. Instead of trying to ban all handguns, some Democrat states are trying to ban one of the most commonly owned handguns – Glocks, which they claim can be easily converted into...
More Television Police Show Bias: Criminals Using Machine Guns in the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rTDfOimvno 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...
Countries in Europe that allow people to carry concealed handguns: Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland
It isn't too surprising that the countries that feel most threatened by Russia are the ones that are most keen on letting their citizens have and carry guns for protection. Interestingly, Czechia has had a relatively low homicide rate compare to other European...
Talk in Houston: Gun Control Myths
Dr. John Lott gave a talk in Houston on April 17th, 2026 titled "Gun Control Myths." The audio here isn't perfect,, but hopefully between the audio and the PowerPoint the main message will get across. For those interested, there is also the book....
UPDATED: How many people have been murdered with Glock-style guns using Glock switches? About 43 total over the five plus years from 2021 to now?
Screenshot We have tried to do an exhaustive search on cases where a Glock-style gun with a switch was used to murder people, but it is quite possible that we have missed some cases. The total that we have so far found is 43 murders from 20 attacks where someone was...
Videos of Renee Goode hitting ICE Agent with her car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E36XnTGryYU Here are videos from Fox News Live, CNN, and Sky New showing the interaction between Renee Good and the ICE agent who shot her. "The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot Renee Good last week in...
On The Armed Citizen: Frank Miniter talks to economist and author of “More Guns, Less Crime” John Lott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo2VFJKld8U Dr. John Lott talked to Frank Miniter about the drop in crime rates during 2025. . If the gun-control Left is to be believed, then the murder rate in the U.S. should be going up, up, up; after all, gun sales and ownership...
CPRC in the News: NH Journal, American Thinker, Townhall, The Enterprise, Bearing Arms, and More
Economist John R. Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told NHJournal that the arguments being made by opponents of campus carry are already being refuted by the data. “About a dozen states already have campus carry, and some have had it for...
Talk in Houston: The FBI Crime Data is a Politicized Mess
Dr. John Lott gave a talk in Houston on April 17th, 2026 titled "The FBI Crime Data is a Politicized Mess." The audio here isn't perfect,, but hopefully between the audio and the PowerPoint the main message will get across. This audio missed the first 10 minutes of...
Spencer Pratt was told by police and security to get a gun after getting many death threats, & he became a Republican because Republicans were the only ones who supported Pratt and his wife getting a concealed handgun permit
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nzpD8B-z0zY Spencer Pratt, who is running to be the mayor of Los Angeles, said he bought a gun during the height of his reality TV fame on The Hills, when he was receiving numerous death threats. A transcript of the interview is shown...











