Dr. John Lott appeared on 700 WLW’s The Bill Cunningham Show in Cincinnati to discuss how rising rates of lawful concealed carry, particularly among women, Black Americans, and Hispanic Americans, together with stronger law enforcement and immigration enforcement,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIacFV43XM Concealed carry is becoming increasingly common across America. A new survey commissioned by the Crime Prevention Research Center finds that nearly 30% of likely voters carry a firearm at least occasionally, a significant...
Comparisons of crime rates across countries often focus on homicides or murders. In 2025, the U.S. murder rate will be about 4 per 100,000 people—roughly twice Canada's 2024 homicide rate of 1.91 per 100,000. However, homicides represent only a tiny share of violent...
Dr. John Lott coauthored an op-ed in Australia with an Australian federal senator, Malcolm Roberts. . Australia faces a serious crime problem. Many Australians believe our crime rate is low compared with countries like the United States, yet sadly that myth stems from...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hdVE9EJpPks Why does anyone think there there would be vote fraud just because there are no voter IDs, massive mail in ballots, and ballot harvesting? Here is a related article from the New York Post (there is much more than this quote)....
https://youtu.be/KD4hOa4Ab04 Dr. John Lott appeared on Ask Dr. Drew to discuss claims by many elected officials that crime is falling in their districts, arguing that these claims are based on misleading statistics carefully constructed to produce results favored by...
Dr. John Lott appeared on KNRS’s Gun Radio Utah to discuss his new op-ed at The Federalist titled "New Jersey Uses Glock Lawsuit To Build The Gun Registry that Would then Immediately be Used to Confiscate Guns Politicians Always Denied Wanting." Democrats are now...
Ryan Busse, the Democratic nominee for Montana’s 1st Congressional District, has repeatedly supported assault weapon and magazine bans. He testified as an expert witness in four separate cases defending such restrictions: California’s assault weapon ban in 2022;...
We have written many times over the years about how counter productive Australia's gun control laws have been, particularly their 1996/97 gun confiscation. After the December, 2025 Bondi Beach massacre, only New South Wales appears likely to participate in the new...
Dr. John Lott appeared on America's Criminologist to discuss the “Luigi Mangione Effect” and the rise of media-inspired violence, including criminal contagion and copycat crime, defensive gun use in America, the truth behind gun crime statistics, and the role of...
At least one leader in Africa understands the importance of deterrence. . The Emir said: “If you acquire such weapons legally, make sure the bandits are aware that your community possesses the means to defend itself. This alone can serve as a deterrent &...
While anti-Second Amendment politicians have pushed laws targeting so-called “Glock switches,” their use in homicide has been rarer than fatal lightning strikes since 2021. Supporters of the measures passed in four states claimed that so-called “Glock switches” are...