Dr. John Lott spoke to the first university class of police officers in Ecuador. Ecuador has created the University of Citizen Security and Police Sciences. After graduation, the students will come out as lieutenants. Lott spoke on the importance of police officers...
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Visiting Ecuador’s Ministry of Government
Dr. John Lott is in Ecuador, and on Monday, he met with the Minister of the Ministry of Government, Esteban Torres, for more than an hour. It was a very productive discussion about crime and gun control, with Ecuador battling drug cartels and considering legislation...
Another TV Character saying: “I don’t like firearms very much,” CBS’ Person of Interest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--V3i4lObsE CBS' Person of Interest, September 22, 2011, Season 1, Episode 1 This episode of CBS' "Person of Interest" was released on September 22, 2011, and it has a standard line in so many television and movies where characters say...
On the Vince Coglianese Show: Discussing the Lakewood Church attack and Mass Public Shootings
Dr. John Lott talked to Vince Coglianese on Washington, D.C.'s WMAL about the Lakewood Church attack in Texas on Sunday, February 11th. The attacker, a transgender "woman" who had a criminal history (including assaulting a police officer and forgery) and mental...
Was Shooting at Chiefs’ Super Bowl Rally Gang Related?
Referring to the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl Rally, “This appeared to be a dispute between several people that ended in gunfire," said Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves. Two juveniles are the main suspects who were detained. The attack was not...
The Highest Income People and Those Who Went to Graduate School are the Least Concerned About Crime
By a 4.7-to-1 margin, a new 2024 Rasmussen Reports survey finds that more likely voters say violent crime in the United States is getting worse (61%) than getting better (13%). Eighty-one percent (81%) of likely voters say the issue of crime will be important in this...
Major credit card companies start using merchant code for firearm and ammunition retailers to comply with a new California law to supposedly identify suspicious gun purchases. Will this really work? No.
Major credit card companies are moving to make a merchant code available for firearm and ammunition retailers in order to comply with a new California law that will allow banks to potentially track suspicious gun purchases and report them to law enforcement, CBS News...
At the Washington Times: Insurrectionists and the Bloomberg School of Public Health: Report shows how out of touch left-wing academics are
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times. According to the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, the threat of an armed insurrection is so pressing that we must quickly enact wide-ranging gun control measures. Its new report...
At Townhall: Jennifer Crumbley Shouldn’t Have Been Convicted
Here is Dr. John Lott's latest piece at Townhall. Jennifer Crumbley was found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter after her son shot four students dead on November 30, 2021. She will face sentencing on April 9, and her husband will now face the same...
Hawaii Supreme Court Claims the Supreme Court’s Bruen and Heller Decisions were Incorrectly Decided
We reject Wilson’s constitutional challenges. Conventional interpretive modalities and Hawaiʻi’s historical tradition of firearm regulation rule out an individual right to keep and bear arms under the Hawaiʻi Constitution. In Hawaiʻi, there is no state constitutional...
Ann Coulter interviews John Lott about the Mass Public Shootings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwptaNqVmVI Coulter: I am very excited to have again the man who has probably saved more lives in America than any other single person, John Lott, author of "More Guns, Less Crime." . . . Man you are good . . . You know it is because of...
The Washington Times’ Extensive Discussion of Our Research on Mass Public Shooters.
Stephen Dinan has a new article that extensively discusses our recent research on Mass Public Shooters. While we greatly appreciate the piece, there are a couple points that could be clearer. . -- Our definition of mass public shootings is not arbitrary. As we note in...











