Dr. Lott has a new post at American Liberty. The CPRC commissioned a new survey by McLaughlin & Associates of 1,000 general election American voters. Despite all the claims about support for gun control, only 19% of voters think passing more gun control will...
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At American Liberty: The Disconnect Between Mass Shooting Stats And Reality
American Liberty ran something that we had put together. A new survey titled “Exposure to Mass Shootings in the United States: A National Survey” and published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (SPPE) claims that approximately 6.95% of U.S....
Talk: Gun Control Myths
Here is a recording of one of the three different talks that Dr. John Lott's presented at the 2025 NRA meetings in Atlanta. Here is a link to the book with the graphs that the talk was based on and the two video that he showed....
On Cincinnatti’s Giant 50,000 Watts WLW: The Florida State University Shooting and Our New Research on Active Shootings
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Cunningham on his WLW show to discuss the recent school shooting at Florida State University. They also discussed our latest research, "Do Armed Civilians Stop Active Shooters More Effectively Than Uniformed Police?" (Monday, April 21,...
Political Biases in the FBI’s Crime Data
Here is a recording of one of the three different talks that Dr. John Lott's presented at the 2025 NRA meetings in Atlanta. Also provided below is a copy of his PowerPoint and the video that he showed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r_xc09q9vo...
CPRC in the News: The Federalist, Hot Air (2), Bearing Arms, Ammoland, and More
John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, has extensively studied the global phenomenon of mass violence. Lott’s research debunks the common misconception that America leads the world in mass shootings or school violence. “While the U.S. had about...
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office Found that 21.8% of Felonies Sentenced in Maricopa County Superior Court were Committed by Illegal Aliens, More than Twice Their Share of the Population. Mexican Nationals alone made up 13% of Inmates in State Prison System.
A study of 2008 data by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office found that while illegal aliens made up 9 percent of Arizona’s population, illegal aliens accounted for 21.8 percent of felonies sentenced in Maricopa County Superior Court. In 2008, there were 5,173...
Vancouver Driver with a History of Mental Issues Plows into Crowd Attending Filipino Festival, Killing 11 People, injuring More than Two Dozen Others
Vehicle attacks are able to harm a lot of people. A driver plowed a car into a crowd at a Filipino festival in Vancouver, Canada, on Saturday night, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than two dozen others, authorities said Sunday. Police say the...
Yet more examples on CBS’s and NBC’s police shows having criminals use machine guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAmAoY7lNCU As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns...
Rasmussen: Do Likely Voters Believe that Prison is Important for Reducing Crime and Terrorism? Sixty-six percent (66%) of voters agree with that quote, including 43% who Strongly Agree. Just 21% disagree with Bukele’s statement, while another 13% are not sure.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey asked likely voters from April 15to 17th: "You cannot just free the criminals and think crime is going to go down magically, you have to imprison [criminals] so you can liberate 350 million Americans...
Yet another television show having American criminals using machine guns, lots of machine guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXAv_upPIAQ As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns...
Real Clear Politics: DNI Releases Secret Biden Plan Raising Serious Civil Liberties Concerns
We believe that this is an unusually important op-ed by Dr. John Lott. Also published at World Net Daily. . Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has declassified a shocking plan by former President Joe Biden’s administration for dealing with domestic...