https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E36XnTGryYU Here are videos from Fox News Live, CNN, and Sky New showing the interaction between Renee Good and the ICE agent who shot her. "The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot Renee Good last week in...
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On Armed American Radio: To Discuss Failed Gun Background Checks
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on the Armed American Radio show about America’s broken federal gun background check system, Second Amendment rights, ATF overreach, and the truth behind firearm statistics that the mainstream media refuses to discuss. They broke...
On The Armed Citizen: Frank Miniter talks to economist and author of “More Guns, Less Crime” John Lott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo2VFJKld8U Dr. John Lott talked to Frank Miniter about the drop in crime rates during 2025. . If the gun-control Left is to be believed, then the murder rate in the U.S. should be going up, up, up; after all, gun sales and ownership...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 33 Cases During October 2025
Atlanta, Georgia, October 1, 2025 (11 Alive) Atlanta police said one person who was threatening another person with a knife was shot. That person's injuries were not life-threatening, police said. The altercation happened around 4:20 a.m. at the Pilot gas station in...
CPRC in the News: NH Journal, American Thinker, Townhall, The Enterprise, Bearing Arms, and More
Economist John R. Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told NHJournal that the arguments being made by opponents of campus carry are already being refuted by the data. “About a dozen states already have campus carry, and some have had it for...
Talk in Houston: The FBI Crime Data is a Politicized Mess
Dr. John Lott gave a talk in Houston on April 17th, 2026 titled "The FBI Crime Data is a Politicized Mess." The audio here isn't perfect,, but hopefully between the audio and the PowerPoint the main message will get across. This audio missed the first 10 minutes of...
On Stinchfield Tonight on Real America’s Voice: Gun Background Checks Are Failing
https://youtu.be/5_a_ApsgvrM Dr. John Lott Jr. appeared on Stinchfield Tonight on Real America’s Voice to discuss his new piece at Real Clear Politics titled "Gun Background Checks Are Failing the Wrong People." (Tuesday, May 12, 2026, from 7:35 to 7:42 PM ET)
Spencer Pratt was told by police and security to get a gun after getting many death threats, & he became a Republican because Republicans were the only ones who supported Pratt and his wife getting a concealed handgun permit
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nzpD8B-z0zY Spencer Pratt, who is running to be the mayor of Los Angeles, said he bought a gun during the height of his reality TV fame on The Hills, when he was receiving numerous death threats. A transcript of the interview is shown...
On One America News: California Gun Laws Under Scrutiny After White House Correspondents Dinner Attack
https://youtu.be/jONzKG-ySxw?si=APxy-sz84gxh2J6D Dr. John Lott talked to John Hines on One America News about the renewed national debate over gun control following the attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Dr. Lott argued that proposed new gun control...
UPDATED: New Survey on the Rate that People Carry Concealed Handguns: Percent of Americans Carrying Increased from 24.3% in December 2024 to 29.8% in May 2026
The CPRC hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 general election voters on May 19th, 2026 (cross tabs available here), regarding whether likely voters carry concealed handguns. In the survey, 13.2% carry all/most of the time, with another 16.6%...
At the Federalist: New Jersey Uses Glock Lawsuit To Build The Gun Registry that Would then Immediately be Used to Confiscate Guns Politicians Always Denied Wanting
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. . For those concerned that background checks will eventually be used to create gun registries that can later facilitate confiscation, they need only look at what is happening now in New Jersey. New Jersey’s Attorney...
Was San Diego mosque shooter another Transgender?: Three people murdered, the two attackers committed suicide
There continue to be claims that the two male shooters at the San Diego mosque were involved in some type of romantic relationship, with one of the murderers being transgender. While the speculation might be completely undeserved, a concern is that the media has...











