About 68,000 citizens are legally armed in Montenegro, and the country has roughly 495,000 adults. That would put licensed gun ownership at approximately 13.7% of adults. According to UNODC/World Bank data, Montenegro's most recent intentional homicide rate is...
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Personal crimes such as rape and sexual assault are three times higher in gun-controlled Australia than in the USA, a report in the Spectator/Australia on Wednesday details. Written by Malcolm Roberts and John Lott, Jr., the report begins by...
Worth Listening to: On St. Louis’ Giant KFTK-FM: Discussing Concealed Carry and Crime Rates
Dr. John Lott appeared on The Mark Reardon Show on St. Louis’ giant 100,000-watt KFTK-FM about a new CPRC survey conducted by McLaughlin & Associates of 1,000 general election voters on May 19, 2026, regarding whether likely voters carry concealed handguns. See...
On 700 WLW’s The Bill Cunningham Show: To Discuss Gun Safety and Crime
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,...
On The Miller Report: Constitutional Carry Expands – Are Americans Safer?
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...
Canada is a much more dangerous country than the United States. Total violent crime in Canada is 295% higher than the US.
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...
In the Australian Spectator: The shocking truth about Australian crime rates
Dr. John Lott coauthored an op-ed in Australia with an Australian federal senator, Malcolm Roberts. It was also published at Australians for Science & Freedom. . Australia faces a serious crime problem. Many Australians believe our crime rate is low compared with...
Vote Buying/Fraud in Los Angeles
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)....
On Ask Dr. Drew: Understanding the Crime Data
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...
On Gun Radio Utah: To Discuss New Jersey’s Glock Lawsuit, Gun Registries, and Background Check Errors
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...
Even in Montana, Democratic Congressional Nominee has long history supporting strict gun control
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;...
The Australian Labor Party’s Gun Confiscation Plan Looks to be Falling Apart
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...












