President Biden and Vice President Harris also passed the most significant gun reform law in almost 30 years. And now, we’re seeing the results of that action. Violent crime has plunged to its lowest ever in almost 50 years. And today, Axios reported, “Ne-...
johnrlott
Virginia Just Found 6,303 Noncitizens Registered to Vote
All data collected by the DMV that identifies noncitizens is shared with ELECT, which uses it to scrub existing voter rolls and remove noncitizens who may have purposefully or accidentally registered to vote. According to data from ELECT, between January 2022 and July...
Democrat VP Nominee Gov Tim Walz: “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.”
Around the world there is a strong movement to criminalizing speech that others disagree with. Here is a good video on censorship in England, Scotland, Canada, and Brazil by John Stossel. It is amazing how censorship is evolving in other English speaking countries...
CPRC in the News: Baltimore Sun, Real Clear Politics, Townhall, All Sides, and much more
. . . 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...
At National Review: The Truth about the Crime Explosion: Misunderstanding what the crime statistics measure and hiding the rise in crime
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...
Gun Control Groups Work with Screenwriters and Producers to go and get their Message Across
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...
Educational: TV Police Show Bias: FBI International shows the IRA using machine guns in London
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...
Letter Submitted to the Washington Post: Responding to the Misleading Editorial Titled: “Crime rates are improving. Too bad crime data is not,” July 28, 2024
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...
At Real Clear Politics: Buttigieg’s Bold Crime Claim Doesn’t Hold Up
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,”...
In the Missoulian: Tester and Harris
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...
At The Federalist: If Elected, Kamala Harris Would Be The Most Anti-Gun President In U.S. History
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...
Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports from 2014-2023 regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 4%, the correct number is at least 35%. Excluding gun-free zones, it averaged over 51.5%.
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...












