The Crime Prevention Research Center joined the Peace Officers Research Association of California, the California State Sheriff's Association, and the California Association of Highway Patrolmen in putting this Amicus brief together, though I suspect that most people...
An early morning attempted armed robbery in Chicago's Homan Square neighborhood ended with an exchange of gunfire and one suspect dead after the victim, who had a FOID card and Concealed Carry License, fired shots, police said. The incident took place around...
President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to reinstate the federal death penalty and “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that states have enough lethal injection drugs to carry out...
On Friday, February 7th, 2025, President Trump signed a dramatic executive order that will undo the regulations put in effect by Biden. . By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby...
Dr. John Lott co-authored an op-ed with Wyoming state Senator Cheri Steinmetz about a bill to eliminate gun-free zones in the state. The Cowboy State Daily is Wyoming's largest state newspaper, and it is located in the state Capitol in Cheyenne, Wyoming. . Would you...
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 77% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that requiring voter photo ID is a reasonable measure to protect the integrity of elections – up slightly from 74% in 2022 and 2021. Just 17% disagree. As in...
We recently noted that Poland has started mandating firearms training for schoolchildren. Now, gun ranges are booming in Finland. The Czech Republic has also started a pilot army training program for high school students. Of course, Ukraine also did so, though they...
Sweden has 10.6 million people, just 1/32.6th the population of the US. Since 2000, the US has had five mass public shootings in universities. Sweden on a per capita rate would have had 32.6 -- 6.52 times the rate in the US. Finland had the Kauhajoki Vocational...
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...
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...
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...
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...