A new survey titled “Exposure to Mass Shootings in the United States: A National Survey” and published in March 7th issue of the journal JAMA Network Open claims that approximately 6.95% of U.S. adults reported having been present at the scene of a mass shooting...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist about the Trump administration undoing Biden's DEI push in police and fire departments. . The Trump administration has dropped the Biden administration’s pushes for onerous consent decrees on police and fire...
Dr. John Lott talked to Tom Grisham on his national Gun Talk Radio Show about our new research on the FBI's active shooting reports. (Sunday, May 25, 2025)
We had previously reported that 20.3% of total violent crimes in 2022 result in an arrest and that was true for 3.8% of total property crimes. That was obtained by taking the Bureau of Justice Statistics measure of total violent and property crimes that were reported...
“Quite frankly, what is in the reconciliation bill does more to support assassins than it does American families,” said Massachusetts Representative Jim McGovern. There was some laughter in the hall. “Yeah, well you know what? Talk to law...
Stephen Green, "CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: They’ve Learned Nothing: Dems Still Pushing the Same Failed, Unpopular Gun Control That Got Them Where They Are Today," Instapundit.com, May 22, 2025. This next piece reposts a link to our recent op-ed at Real Clear Politics....
Dr. John Lott talked to Marc Cox on St. Louis' giant 100,000-watt KFTK-FM about our new research on the FBI's active shooting reports. (Tuesday, May 27, 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ZXrQw3r5c While the police were able to arrive on the scene within two minutes of the attack, the attack had already been stopped by a concealed handgun permit holder. . On May 28, at about 10:00 p.m., patrol officers responded to...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKmjtPo22s0 Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson is a national news program that airs on Sinclair Television stations on Sunday morning. This past Sunday, Attkisson interviewed the CPRC's John Lott about the data on crime rates. She is an...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tLhr1dtI2A Television show bias against guns is never-ending. You won’t see an entertainment television show that has a civilian successfully using a gun defensively. Instead, something always seems to go wrong when guns are...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GRcScSBHJ84 There are a few movies in this vain of a modern, law-abiding, regular, urban citizens who used guns to stop criminals: "Death Wish" with Bruce Willis or Charles Bronson, "Miss Meadows" with Katie Holmes, "Peppermint" with...
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on his national radio show about a recent piece at Time titled: "We’ve Been Thinking About Gun Violence All Wrong." The piece makes the typical claim by gun control advocates that normal, law-abiding people get into arguments that...