While the latest Rasmussen Reports survey of Likely U.S. Voters in the United States finds 51% want stricter gun control laws, 41% disagree. But the breakdown is interesting. Hispanics slightly oppose stricter gun control. Democrats overwhelmingly support stricter gun...
USA Today’s headline on the FBI's reported crime data released in September 2023 claims “Violent crime dropped for second straight year in 2023, including murder and rape.” There are two errors in their headline. First, that it is the FBI’s measure of reported crime...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Washington Times. . Vice President Kamala Harris has pushed back hard on claims that she wants to take people’s guns away by repeatedly saying that she and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz own guns. . It sounds reassuring, but it doesn’t...
A clear majority of even Californians support making criminal penalties stiffer -- by two-to-one ratio. Even 47% of somewhat liberal people support stiffing the penalties. Nearly 58 percent of the 1,685 likely voters surveyed support Proposition 36, a November ballot...
Here is a letter that we submitted to the New York Times a couple weeks ago. The letter was not published by the Times. Background: I have served as the senior advisor for research and statistics in the US Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs and the...
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. has a new op-ed piece at Townhall. Homemade guns have been around since before the United States was a country, but gun control advocates refer to them today as “ghost guns.” VanDerStok v. Garland, which the Supreme Court will hear...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDDAzQzf0pU Here is part of Elon Musk's talk for President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on October 5th, 2024. Musk talks about how private gun ownership protects the First Amendment. We focus on that part of his talk because of our...
The letter asks several questions to the FBI, such as if they omitted any data from various major cities, how many agencies provided incomplete data and if the data would be retroactively adjusted to reflect an increase in violent crime, like it had in...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at New York Post. This week President Biden once again took a victory lap on crime, trumpeting preliminary FBI data on trends in 2024. “Communities across our country are safer now than when I took office,” he bragged in an official...
A new Rasmussen Reports survey in September shows overwhelming support for requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote in national elections. Indeed, only liberals oppose proof of citizenship. Even Democrats as a whole support it by a clear 56%-to-33%....
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. The piece was also published in the Tennessee Star, NOQ Report, Real Clear Policy, and Off the Press. . The new data on all the criminal noncitizens coming into the U.S. is shocking. . The U.S. Immigration...
The murder rate in 2019 was 5.168 and 2023 in 5.748, an 11.23% increase. As noted before, the Centers for Disease Control showed an increase in ~murders (homicide, excluding legal intervention) from 2020 to 2022 while the FBI data shows a drop. The CDC data showed a...