Nine people were murdered and 25 injured in a school shooting in western Canada. "At least two other people were hospitalized with serious or life-threatening wounds." A man identified as the suspect's uncle, Russell G. Strang, confirmed to outlets like the New York...
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Remember Last Year When Democrats were Predicting that Trump was going to Increase Crime? Brennan Center warned: “Crime-Prevention Efforts Face Setbacks After Federal Cuts”
Last year left-wing outfits such as the Brennan Center were predicting disaster from President Trump's and congressional Republican's policies. This write up from the Brennan Center was from last July, and with the data showing that murder rates likely fell to an all...
Charlottesville’s Video Cameras Solved a Murder, Find a Missing Child and Others, and Recover Missing Cars— But Now They Sit Unused Over Fears that ICE Might Use the Cameras to Catch Illegal Aliens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noxFAhMeVLg Charlottesville’s video cameras helped solve a murder, find missing persons, & recover stolen cars, according to Charlottesville’s Police Chief Michael Kochis, but fears that ICE might use the video feed to track and...
Democrat Congressional Leaders demand ICE agents be banned from Polling Places and Court Houses before they agree to funding the Department of Homeland Security. Are Illegals Voting? Why not allow ICE to pick up Illegals charged with crimes?
In addition to the demands that ICE agents be readily identified by name (despite all the Doxxing and attacks on them) and that the agents stop racial profiling (which isn't happening, note the tiny error rate in American citizens who have been detained by ICE),...
Talk at Australia National University: Do Armed Civilians Stop Active Shooters More Effectively Than Uniformed Police?
Dr. John Lott will be giving a talk at Australia National University on Monday, February 9th from noon to 1 PM AEDT. Tickets to the talk are available here. . The FBI tracks active shooting cases-where individuals attempt to kill people in public places, excluding...
CPRC in the News: Western Journalism Review, Voz, Nevada News and Views, Reason (The Volokh Conspiracy), Headline USA, and More
"Countless news stories have amplified fears that under Trump, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are wildly violating basic rights," said John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. "But the numbers tell a very different story." Lott...
Canadian Provinces Refuse to Participate with Canadian Federal Government’s Gun Confiscation Program
The Canadian government's pilot program to buy civilian guns was a flop. Now multiple provinces are refusing to implement the Liberal government's nationwide confiscation of guns. . On Tuesday the government of Newfoundland announced that it will refuse to...
Updated Detailed Information on Mass Public Shootings from 1998 to 2025
Many graphs using the data are shown at the end of the post. Each time a public shooting draws national attention, particularly at places such as schools or churches, politicians and the media often respond by citing figures that claim the United States suffers...
At Real Clear Politics: Democrats Using Shutdown Threat To Rewrite Immigration Enforcement
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics on the demands the Democrats have or they will shutdown the government again. . Another government shutdown looks increasingly likely by the end of the week. Democrats are demanding that major changes to Department...
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Again Posts Another of Our Op-eds, this one from the New York Post on Trump’s ICE enforcement record
A range of important people noticed Dr. Lott's op-ed in the New York Post, and retweeted it on X: Karoline Leavitt, Larry Elder, Ann Coulter, and others. We are having an impact.
Hawaii Sees the Writing on the Wall for Losing Wolford v. Lopez, So Hawaii is moving forward with other restrictions
One bill is a first-of-its-kind that mandates any one carrying a permitted concealed handgun must also carry an electronic stun gun. A second bill tries to make it as obnoxious as possible for people to carry by requiring a yellow or red placard for people to carry a...
Paul Davis: On guns and crime — My interview with John Lott
This is part of an hour long interview that Dr. Lott did with crime reporter Paul Davis. . Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., is an author, economist and a world-recognized expert on guns and crime. . Lott, the author of More Guns, Less Crime, and other books on crime...












