Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall. During Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s testimony on Monday before the House Oversight Committee, Democrats continually pushed for gun control, with Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) going so far as asking if Americans'...
In 2019, Kamala Harris wanted the US to follow Australia's gun confiscation program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C6tEmqziE0 In this late 2019 debate, Kamala Harris once again puts herself to the left of Joe Biden on gun control. While both support a ban on...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqdP0xwIWOU Television show bias against guns is never-ending. Except for a couple of episodes on Paramount’s Yellowstone, you won’t see an entertainment television show with a civilian successfully using a gun defensively....
Except for liberals, likely American voters of all categories think the rhetoric of Biden's campaign that Trump is "an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs" led to Trump's attempted assassination. In fact, overall likely voters by an almost 2-to-1...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTTVSwInmxE People remember how Kamala Harris urged people to donate to the MN Freedom Fund on June 1, 2020, to help bail out the George Floyd rioters. Harris strongly supported removing funds from police and moving the funds to...
According to the Washington Post, four people familiar with the requests said top Secret Service officials denied repeated requests by Trump’s Secret Service security detail for more security at Trump events. Real Clear Politics reporter Susan Crabtree writes: "Secret...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsQOuvrh1dk 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, ABC's’ Will Trent is no different (Season 2, Episode...
The news media focuses on the FBI data to show that murders are falling. We have previously reported the problems with the FBI violent and property compared to the National Crime Victimization Survey data (here and here). But it turns out that the FBI murder data also...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2_3QjE19JQ Dr. John Lott spoke in Sao Paulo, Brazil on July 5th about how to stop crime and what to do when law enforcement isn't doing its job. There is an audio problem at the very beginning, but it is fixed quickly. The Portuguese...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtDOQHoosLk This is one reason that gun control advocates are extremely upset about JD Vance being Trump's vice presidential nominee. JD Vance’s grandmother, who raised him, had 19 loaded handguns in her home when she died. He says that...
As we have pointed out before, there are lots of problems with crime data from across the country. Now comes concern that the reported drop in crimes in Oakland, California might be about half what the city is claiming. . . . Statistics published by the police...
“They also got such a null response from the police that they rarely even bother reporting crimes anymore, because nothing happens,” Elon Musk wrote last year. Joseph Pisani, Alexa Corse, and Micah Maidenberg, "Elon Musk Says He Will Move X and SpaceX Headquarters Out...