Sweden has 10.6 million people, just 1/32.6th the population of the US. So that is equivalent on a per capita basis to all the mass public shootings in the United States over the six years from 2019 to 2024. Here are examples and some of our research on mass public...
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Who died in Federal Prisons from COVID-19?
As of December 2021, 36,000 inmates from the federal prison system were placed in home confinement because of COVID-19. It would be interesting to get information on the age distribution of those released. The US prison population declined by 157,500 persons during...
TV Police Show: Licensed Gun Used in a Murder. Woman Says She Would Never Use It in Self-Defense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXk9_ALQ8Xk CBS's FBI has a woman's licensed gun used in a murder. Her dad had given her the gun, but she would never use it in self-defense, and now the gun has gotten her and her family in trouble. Of course, licensed, permitted...
At Real Clear Politics: Two-Tiered Justice: Disparities in Biden’s and Trump’s Pardons
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. Also published at Zerohedge, America First Report, Vigilant News, and VACA. . President Biden’s and President Trump’s pardons have generated a lot of controversy. But there are large differences between the two...
Transgenders in Federal Prison: 15.3% of Prisoners in Women’s Prison are Men, 0.5% of Prisoners in Men’s Prison are Women
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has numbers on the sex of inmates. Of the 10,025 people in federal women's prisons, 1,529 are men or 15.3%. Of the 143,714 people in federal men's prisons, 744 are women or 0.5%. So-called transgender females are thus greater over...
After Removing Immigration Related Crimes, the Percent of Foreign Citizens in Federal Prison is 46.6% Higher Their Share of the US Population
As of 2023, approximately 14.3% of people living in the United States were born outside the country. 49% were naturalized U.S. citizens, so 51% of the foreign-born population were not U.S. citizens as of 2022 (this includes lawful permanent...
A long history of TV characters saying they “dislike” or “hate” guns, An Episode from NBC’s Chuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxyqgMLQgvk The indoctrination against guns on television shows has been going on for a long time. We have collected many recent episodes on television where characters say that they dislike guns available here. Here is an episode from...
Anchor Babies: There are an estimated 225,000 to 250,000 Births to Illegal Immigrants in 2023
The Center for Immigration Studies released a 2018 report finding that in 2014, one in five births (791,000) in the U.S. was to an immigrant mother (legal or illegal). They thought that legal immigrants accounted for 12.4% (494,000) of all births and illegal...
NJ Assemblyman Greg Myhre on More Guns, Less Violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsD7o4SHW38 NJ Assemblyman Greg Myhre (R) has a video on how violent crime fell after the Supreme Court's Bruen decision, dramatically increasing the number of concealed handgun permits in the state. As has been seen in all the other...
Of the 20 countries with the highest murder rates, 12 are Caribbean islands. And many have seen a big spike in murders.
Many Caribbean Islands have among the highest murder rates in the world. Countries such as Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands all have murder rates in 2023 that are above 40...
Trump Continues to Reference Our Research on Crime increasing During the Biden Administration
Trump's numbers and the timing of when the data was released might not be exactly right, but the general point is definitely correct (see here and here). Other times where Trump has relied on our research are here and here.
At Real Clear Politics: Government Price Controls Won’t Help Residents in California Recover From LA Fires
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed on the move by the California Attorney General to bring price gouging charges against companies in California. With prices of hotels and short-term rentals soaring in Southern California due to the recent devastating wildfires,...