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...
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In Wyoming’s Cowboy State Daily: Let’s Repeal Gun Free Zones
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...
Rasmussen Reports Survey: Photo-IDs to Vote Supported by all ages, all races, all parties, all ideologies, all incomes, all educations
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...
It isn’t just Poland that is Increasing Firearms Training for Its Citizens: Finland is also
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...
10 Murdered in Swedish School Shooting
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...
Who died in Federal Prisons from COVID-19?
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...
TV Police Show: Licensed Gun Used in a Murder. Woman Says She Would Never Use It in Self-Defense.
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...
At Real Clear Politics: Two-Tiered Justice: Disparities in Biden’s and Trump’s Pardons
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...
Transgenders in Federal Prison: 15.3% of Prisoners in Women’s Prison are Men, 0.5% of Prisoners in Men’s Prison are Women
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...
After Removing Immigration Related Crimes, the Percent of Foreign Citizens in Federal Prison is 46.6% Higher Their Share of the US Population
As of 2023, approximately 14.3% of people living in the United States were born outside the country. 49% were naturalized U.S. citizens, so 51% of the foreign-born population were not U.S. citizens as of 2022 (this includes lawful permanent...
A long history of TV characters saying they “dislike” or “hate” guns, An Episode from NBC’s Chuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxyqgMLQgvk The indoctrination against guns on television shows has been going on for a long time. We have collected many recent episodes on television where characters say that they dislike guns available here. Here is an episode from...
Anchor Babies: There are an estimated 225,000 to 250,000 Births to Illegal Immigrants in 2023
The Center for Immigration Studies released a 2018 report finding that in 2014, one in five births (791,000) in the U.S. was to an immigrant mother (legal or illegal). They thought that legal immigrants accounted for 12.4% (494,000) of all births and illegal...












