New Orleans, Louisiana, December 3, 2024 (NOLA.com) Teony Juarez, 18, was arrested near the scene of the fatal shooting earlier this month after he and his accomplice, 16-year-old Cecil Batiz, allegedly robbed the store at gunpoint, prompting the store clerk to shoot...
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Trump signs death penalty order directing attorney general to help states get lethal injection drugs
President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to reinstate the federal death penalty and “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that states have enough lethal injection drugs to carry out...
President Trump Signs Executive Order Protecting the Second Amendment
On Friday, February 7th, 2025, President Trump signed a dramatic executive order that will undo the regulations put in effect by Biden. . By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby...
In Wyoming’s Cowboy State Daily: Let’s Repeal Gun Free Zones
Dr. John Lott co-authored an op-ed with Wyoming state Senator Cheri Steinmetz about a bill to eliminate gun-free zones in the state. The Cowboy State Daily is Wyoming's largest state newspaper, and it is located in the state Capitol in Cheyenne, Wyoming. . Would you...
Rasmussen Reports Survey: Photo-IDs to Vote Supported by all ages, all races, all parties, all ideologies, all incomes, all educations
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 77% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that requiring voter photo ID is a reasonable measure to protect the integrity of elections – up slightly from 74% in 2022 and 2021. Just 17% disagree. As in...
It isn’t just Poland that is Increasing Firearms Training for Its Citizens: Finland is also
We recently noted that Poland has started mandating firearms training for schoolchildren. Now, gun ranges are booming in Finland. The Czech Republic has also started a pilot army training program for high school students. Of course, Ukraine also did so, though they...
Full Measure Interviews Dr. John Lott about Problems with FBI’s Crime Stats
Full Measure's Sharyl Attkisson does a deep dive with Dr. John Lott on problems with the FBI’s crime data. This interview was related to Dr. Lott’s investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations titled “Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats.”...
10 Murdered in Swedish School Shooting
Sweden has 10.6 million people, just 1/32.6th the population of the US. So that is equivalent on a per capita basis to all the mass public shootings in the United States over the six years from 2019 to 2024. Here are examples and some of our research on mass public...
Who died in Federal Prisons from COVID-19?
As of December 2021, 36,000 inmates from the federal prison system were placed in home confinement because of COVID-19. It would be interesting to get information on the age distribution of those released. The US prison population declined by 157,500 persons during...
On The Dennis Prager Show: To Discuss Mass Deportation Cost
Dr. John Lott talked to the guest host Carl Jackson on Dennis Prager's national radio show about the myth of mass deportation being more expensive than illegal immigrants staying in the United States. See also Dr. Lott's new piece at The Federalist titled...
TV Police Show: Licensed Gun Used in a Murder. Woman Says She Would Never Use It in Self-Defense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXk9_ALQ8Xk CBS's FBI has a woman's licensed gun used in a murder. Her dad had given her the gun, but she would never use it in self-defense, and now the gun has gotten her and her family in trouble. Of course, licensed, permitted...
At Real Clear Politics: Two-Tiered Justice: Disparities in Biden’s and Trump’s Pardons
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. Also published at Zerohedge, America First Report, Vigilant News, and VACA. . President Biden’s and President Trump’s pardons have generated a lot of controversy. But there are large differences between the two...