Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin about illegal aliens and the crimes they have committed, raising concerns about public safety. (Wednesday, December 10, 2025) Vicki’s show covers most of Wisconsin and part of the...
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On What’s On Your Mind: To Discuss Australian Gun Confiscation and DOJ Shakeup for the Second Amendment
Dr. John Lott Jr. appeared on What’s On Your Mind with Scott Hennen, broadcast across North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and part of eastern Montana, to provide data-driven insights into the failure of strict gun control in Australia and the positive shift at the...
Why Senator Schumer and Many Others are Wrong about the Benefits from Australia’s Gun Control Laws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiOaTOz1aPQ Just two days after the mass public shooting in Australia that left 15 murdered and 43 people wounded, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed: 'Australia is no stranger to gun safety legislation. They famously...
At The Federalist: The supposed benefits of Australia’s gun confiscation rest on flawed statistics.
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. The graphs for the changes in firearm and total homicides as well as for firearm and total suicides are provided at the end of this piece. . Democrats in the United States repeatedly praise Australia’s 1996 gun...
On John Solomon Reports: To Discuss Crime Data and Self-Defense Rights
Dr. John Lott appeared on John Solomon Reports to discuss compelling statistics that reveal a drop in murders and mass shootings, challenging the narratives frequently presented in the media. They also discussed the implications of gun control laws on minority...
In the Australian Spectator: Gun laws and the helpless horror of Bondi: Would even tougher gun laws have saved lives at Bondi?
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed in the Australian Spectator with Kesten Green, a researcher at the University of South Australia, about the massacre of Jews at the Bondi beach in Australia. The piece appeared in Australia on December 16th, 2025. . Australia already has...
On Cincinnati’s Giant 50,000-watt Radio Station WLW: To Discuss Whether Firearms Are the Leading Cause of Death Among Children
Dr. John Lott talked to the guest host Mike Allen on WLW, Cincinnati’s giant 50,000-watt radio station, about his new op-ed at The Federalist titled "Democrats’ Favorite Talking Point About Children And Gun Deaths Is A Lie." (Wednesday, November 26, 2025, from 9:00 to...
Australia Mass Public Shooting: 15 murdered, 40 wounded. Did it take 13 minutes for Police to Arrive on the Crime Scene in Australia? One survivor says that even then the police didn’t immediately act. Australia and Brown University are both gun-free zones.
Yesterday we saw mass shootings in Australia where 15 were murdered and at Brown University where two were murdered. Both occurred in places with strict gun control (the rules for Brown are available here). The problem is that uniformed law enforcement have an...
Investigation Shows that D.C.’S Police Chief Ordered Serious Crimes be Underreported
D.C. has been accused by its police union of manipulating crime data to hide violent crimes. Mayor Bowser claimed the manipulation was limited to just one precinct, but this new report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform shows the problem was...
On NTD Evening News: To Discuss the FBI’s Arrest of the Pipe Bomb Suspect and Their Targeting the “Worst of the Worst”
https://youtu.be/63uDGjwsfhI Dr. John Lott appeared on NTD Evening News to discuss the FBI’s arrest of the D.C. pipe-bomb suspect and the bureau’s effort to pursue the “worst of the worst.” (Thursday, December 4, 2025, from 6:38 to 6:49 PM ET)
At Real Clear Politics: WSJ’s Fearmongering Doesn’t Survive Contact With the Evidence
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Real Clear Politics. Also covered at Zero Hedge, Lucianne.com, and JohnLocke.org. . Legally armed civilians, we’re told, pose a major danger. They shoot innocent bystanders, justifiably kill others whenever they personally...
CPRC in the News: American Thinker, Ammoland, America’s 1st Freedom, Bearing Arms, and more
A new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) on concealed carry in the U.S. reveals that 46.8 percent of Americans now live in “Constitutional Carry” states—there are 29 of them—where no license or permit is required, while Congress is...












