Our new research paper is available to read here. Abstract In 2021 we wrote a short paper noting that truncating the sample when estimating the effect of right to carry laws on crime could be biased by comparisons to states that already adopted the law, instead of...
According to Gallup's Nov. 21 report, gun ownership among U.S. adults remains near 30% overall, but the ownership rate among Republican women rose from 19% in 2007-2012 to 33% in 2019-2024. Among Republican men it rose slightly from 57% in 2007-2012 to 60% in...
Gun Talk Radio discussed a suggestion to put Dr. John Lott in charge of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. Here is part of their discussion. Below is a discussion from Michael Bloomberg's The Trace where they are worried about Dr. Lott running that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knLjFjC77g4 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...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist. The FBI has a big transparency problem. For a year, the media has been using the FBI’s estimates of reported crime to claim that crime has been falling. When the FBI released its numbers for 2023 in September...
By a 59% to 33% likely voters are concerned about vote-by-mail making cheating easier. Every group but Democrats, liberals, those making over $200,000, and those who went to graduate school thinks that mail-in ballots make vote fraud easier. While all the other groups...
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability is launching an investigationinto the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for allegedly failing to report complete and accurate national crime data, which the federal law enforcement agency was caught...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist on the FBI Just days before an election in which crime has been a major issue, the FBI continues to hide its revisions to data The FBI has a big transparency problem. For a year, the media has been using the FBI’s...
Dr, John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Real Clear Politics. It also appeared at Zero Hedge, All Sides, and Patriot Post. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats claim they are the party of freedom. In Harris’ interview on Club Shay Shay on Monday,...
Who knows what the outcome of the election on November 5th will be, but gun control activists are already very worried about what it would mean for gun control. Gun control groups, such as Michael Bloomberg's The Trace, have jumped ahead and are concerned about the...
Our research has resulted in the House calling out the FBI for hiding its revision in crime statistics. The letter by Rep. James Comer is shown at the end. . Here is a story on the investigation that was in the Washington Times. A related story is available at Fox...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=295LYp9yfVw Apple's Bad Monkey recently showed a case where a criminal took away a civilian's permitted concealed handgun and used it to shoot at a former police officer. Of course, television show bias against guns is never-ending. It...