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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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)
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...
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,”...
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...
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...
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...
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