. . . I don’t believe firearms are the leading cause of death for children. One should not accept the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the only or most reliable data source. I challenge Murthy to investigate data from the Crime Prevention Research Center...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at National Review. . "The false message of the RNC was that [illegal immigration] was leading to an increase in crime.” Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg claimed on Fox News Sunday. “If you look this up at home, you will know...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeijIDuksc4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r_xc09q9vo Here is a couple of videos we put together on Hollywood's bias against guns. Over the years, Hollywood producers and writers have made it clear that they view their job as pushing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC1eHURVmXw As the Crime Prevention Research Center has often pointed out, television crime shows seem to think criminals constantly use machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, CBS's FBI International is no different (Season...
Dr. Lott submitted this letter to the Washington Post, but it wasn't published. Dear Editor: Your editorial leaves readers with the mistaken impression that crime has fallen (“Crime rates are improving. Too bad crime data is not,” July 28, 2024). Unlike the National...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics (also at ZeroHedge, July 31, 2024; The Ohio Star, August 1, 2024; Conservative News and Views, July 31, 2024; Captain Frank Sparrow, August 1, 2024 ). . “Crime went down under Biden and crime went up under Trump,”...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Missoulian. . Montana’s Jon Tester was important in launching Kamala Harris’ national political career. As chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 2016, Tester recruited Harris to run for the California Senate...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. . Biden is the most activist president ever on gun control, putting thousands of gun dealers out of business by the middle of last year for trivial paperwork mistakes. He used government regulations...
Data: For convenience, the Excel file is available here, as well as a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories. We also show cases that the FBI missed of both armed and unarmed civilians stopping active shooting attacks. FBI Active...
By large margins, all groups of likely voters in the six swing states (AZ, NV, GA, PA, WI, and MI), with the exception of Democrats and Biden supporters, are concerned about the risk of cheating in the 2024 election (Rasmussen, July 5-12, 2024 of 5,605 likely voters)....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPcZGZBwFbI Kamala Harris' talk to the American Federation of Teachers on July 25, 2024: "While you try to create safe and welcoming places where our children can learn, extremists attack our freedom to live safe from gun violence. They...
Instead of relying on incomplete FBI data, Republicans point to the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey, which John Lott, founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center, tells RCP is the “gold standard” in crime statistics because it...