Take the case of Isaac Melendez-Carranza, an illegal alien from El Salvador, who was recently arrested for allegedly selling fentanyl to students at Park View High School in Loudoun County, Virginia. Investigators linked him to at least two student...
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The CDC Puts Defensive Gun Use Data Back Up on Their Website, But What is There is Extremely Misleading
The CDC recently restored information on defensive gun use that it removed from its website in 2022 after gun-control advocates privately pressured agency officials to take it down. Until May 2022, the CDC cited a 2013 National Academies of Sciences (NAS)...
On Victory News: How can we reduce violent crime? Who are the victims of crime? Who supports more police?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATPEVGNbhVQ Dr. John Lott on a wide range from a violent crime in Michigan to socialism to who are the people don't like the socialist views on reducing crime. A deep dive into murder victim data is available here and to violent crime...
On Sunday Nights with Bill Cunningham Show: To Discuss DEI in Public Safety and Illegal-Immigrant Crime
Dr. John Lott appeared on Sunday Nights with Bill Cunningham Show to discuss the Trump administration’s efforts to reverse the Biden administration’s DEI policies in police and fire departments, growing calls among Democrats to “Abolish ICE,” calls by some Democrats...
Amicus Brief for Supreme Court, Viramontes et al v Cook County, on Assault Weapon Bans in Cook County and Connecticut
The Crime Prevention Research Center has worked with the California Peace Officers Research Association and the California Association of Highway Patrolmen on an Amicus brief for the U.S. Supreme Court looking at “Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments...
Spanish Translation of More Guns, Less Crime
Cuando se publicó por primera vez en 1998, la obra de John R. Lott More Guns, Less Crime (MÁS ARMAS, MENOS CRIMEN) suscitó tanto grandes elogios como duras críticas. Más de una década después, con la aparición de su tercera edición, el libro sigue desempeñando un...
Interview with the Federation for American Immigration Reform interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOke2EeIS8c Dr. John Lott was interviewed by the Federation for American Immigration Reform about his research on crime rates by illegal aliens. More detailed information can be found here and here. August 26, 2026
One Reason Why Crime Rates have Gone Down in Heavily Democrat Areas: ICE snared nearly 2,197 illegal alien criminals — including convicted murderers, rapists and drug traffickers — in an August sweep across New York state
Arresting criminal illegal aliens takes these illegals off the streets so they can't continue committing crime. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency caught up to 2,197 criminals in the Empire State between July 27 and Aug. 29 as part of “Operation...
Are there any television shows that depict gun ownership like this today?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ly8pd5knCpk How does Hollywood currently treat guns? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeijIDuksc4 More on television show bias against guns is available here.
CPRC in the News: Fox News (2), Daily Caller (2), AOL, 24/7 Politics, World Net Daily, Liberty Nation News, and more
According to research published by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), many studies have found that right-to-carry or concealed carry laws are associated with reductions in violent crime by increasing the potential risks faced by offenders. CPRC...
At Real Clear Politics: Supreme Court Just Gave Mail-In Ballot Safeguards a Chance
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. The piece also appeared at the Epoch Times and World Net Daily. . The Supreme Court’s decision to stay the injunction blocking President Trump’s March executive order on mail-in ballots gives...
At Townhall: The Trump Administration Restores the Gun-Defense Data the Biden CDC Buried
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall. . The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has restored information on defensive gun use that it removed from its website in 2022 after gun-control advocates privately pressured agency officials to take it down....












