We normally just focus on how television shows treat gun ownership. And television show bias against guns is never-ending. You won’t see an entertainment television show that has a civilian successfully using a gun defensively. Instead, something always seems to go...
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Trying to Correct the Record on a Biased Article in Wall Street Journal on Stand Your Ground Laws
A couple of weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an extremely biased news article on Stand Your Ground laws. Dr. John Lott and Professor Carl Moody both submitted letters to the editor on it. Unfortunately, the Wall Street Journal didn't publish either of our...
At The Federalist: Democrats’ Favorite Talking Point About Children And Gun Deaths Is A Lie
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. The piece also appeared in the Conservative News Daily. The piece was the third most read piece on the Federalist website today. . Gun control advocates often claim that guns are the leading cause of death among...
CPRC in the News: American Thinker, American Liberty, Patriot Post, America’s 1st Freedom, KOA radio, and more
Screenshot According to John Lott, Jr.—author of More Guns Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws—it’s good. Initially published in 1998, and now in its third edition, Lott’s book “directly challenges common perceptions about the relationship of guns,...
More Television Police Show Bias: Chicago Criminals Using Machine Guns in Many Different Shootings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No7-xgoM47g Apparently another TV show doesn’t think the strict gun control in the UK or Belgium is working too well. As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think...
On Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater: Discussing the Crime Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mprmJN9JWY&t=392s Dr. John Lott appeared on Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater to discuss the problem of misinformation in crime statistics and the root causes of rising crime rates. (Friday, October 3, 2025)
PowerPoints from a Debate at the University of Connecticut Law School and a Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Unfortunately, there aren't videos of the presentations, but here are the PowerPoints From the University of Connecticut on October 28th: How does gun control affect public safety? University of Connecticut DebateDownload From the University of Pennsylvania on October...
NBC’s SVU: Television Police Show Bias on Illegal Aliens, Portrays ICE Agents as Villains Allowing Rape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWe1k1fzlS8 The season premiere of Law & Order: SVU cast Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as cold-hearted villains who obstruct the unit’s pursuit of a rapist (S27 E1 09 25 25). . In the episode, “In the Wind,”...
CPRC in the News: New York Post, Instapundit, MSN, American Thinker, Patriot Post, and More
Some of these articles were extremely long ones. “A new Bureau of Justice Statistics report” shows “Trump was right” last year “when he said, ‘Crime here is up and through the roof,’” reports John R. Lott at RealClearPolitics. The media focused on the...
Democrat Group Shows How Democrats have Moved Far Left on Gun Control and Claims it is Hurting Them Electorally
A new Democrat group named Welcome has come out with a report on whether the party's shift to the left has helped the party -- there answer is "no." For example, the share of Democrat members of congress who cosponsored an assault weapon ban went from 41% during the...
Argentina: Interview with security specialist John Lott: “Crime decreases if victims can defend themselves.”During a recent visit to Argentina, he highlighted several ways to reduce our country’s high crime rate using proven methods around the world.
This is an interview that Dr. John Lott did while he was in Argentina. . Renowned American economist John Lott granted us an exclusive interview after his presentation the previous day to a select group of attendees at a downtown hotel in Buenos Aires. This event was...
America’s Dramatic Decline in Homicide Clearance Rates (Arrest Rates) from 1965 to 2024: Falling From 91 to 52 Percent
The FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) shows a dramatic drop in arrest rates for homicides over the last 60 years -- a 43 percent, 39 percentage point, drop. The Excel file with the data is available here. fbi_murder_rate_1965_2004Download











