https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ymJUkPKZYs USA Today: What's been your biggest disappointment? .Nancy Pelosi: My disappointment, I always have it. I'll never give up on it, is guns. A four-letter word, guns. Guns. That children would be dying in a classroom. That...
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Why Senator Schumer and Many Others are Wrong about the Benefits from Australia’s Gun Control Laws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiOaTOz1aPQ Just two days after the mass public shooting in Australia that left 15 murdered and 43 people wounded, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed: 'Australia is no stranger to gun safety legislation. They famously...
At The Federalist: The supposed benefits of Australia’s gun confiscation rest on flawed statistics.
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. The graphs for the changes in firearm and total homicides as well as for firearm and total suicides are provided at the end of this piece. . Democrats in the United States repeatedly praise Australia’s 1996 gun...
In the Australian Spectator: Gun laws and the helpless horror of Bondi: Would even tougher gun laws have saved lives at Bondi?
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed in the Australian Spectator with Kesten Green, a researcher at the University of South Australia, about the massacre of Jews at the Bondi beach in Australia. The piece appeared in Australia on December 16th, 2025. . Australia already has...
Australia Mass Public Shooting: 15 murdered, 40 wounded. Did it take 13 minutes for Police to Arrive on the Crime Scene in Australia? One survivor says that even then the police didn’t immediately act. Australia and Brown University are both gun-free zones.
Yesterday we saw mass shootings in Australia where 15 were murdered and at Brown University where two were murdered. Both occurred in places with strict gun control (the rules for Brown are available here). The problem is that uniformed law enforcement have an...
Investigation Shows that D.C.’S Police Chief Ordered Serious Crimes be Underreported
D.C. has been accused by its police union of manipulating crime data to hide violent crimes. Mayor Bowser claimed the manipulation was limited to just one precinct, but this new report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shows the problem was...
At Real Clear Politics: WSJ’s Fearmongering Doesn’t Survive Contact With the Evidence
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Real Clear Politics. Also covered at Zero Hedge, Lucianne.com, and JohnLocke.org. . Legally armed civilians, we’re told, pose a major danger. They shoot innocent bystanders, justifiably kill others whenever they personally...
CPRC in the News: American Thinker, Ammoland, America’s 1st Freedom, Bearing Arms, and more
A new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) on concealed carry in the U.S. reveals that 46.8 percent of Americans now live in “Constitutional Carry” states—there are 29 of them—where no license or permit is required, while Congress is...
CBS’s FBI Pushing the Claim that “Second Amendment Purists” are the Real Danger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=illxfSeSM3k CBS's FBI pushes the claim that "Second Amendment Purists" are the real danger (FBI S8 E4 November 3, 2025).
Talk in Brazil 2025 on How to Make People Safer
https://youtu.be/mSRArgsIXwg?si=0mT4jjMoDETqRUQ0&t=729 Sorry, the video is bouncing around a fair amount. While the video here is started at Lott's presentation, you can watch Luciano Lara's talk before Lott. Dr. John Lott gave a talk in Brazil on July 5th that...
At The Federalist: DOJ Lawsuits Against Gun Control Policies Especially Protect The Weak
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at The Federalist. . Gun control laws disproportionately harm minorities, women, and the poor — the people who benefit most from being able to protect themselves. _________ In a major shakeup at the U.S. Department of Justice, the...
Media Bias: How Often Do People Who are Legally Carrying a Concealed Handgun Accidentally Shoot a Bystander? How about the Police?
Wall Street Journal reporter Mark Maremont continues his attacks on people carrying concealed handguns (this titled "The Innocent Bystanders Caught in Deadly Crossfire of Self-Defense Shootings"). Previously we tried writing letters to the WSJ pointing out legal...











