Juneau, Alaska, February 3, 2025 (Juneau Empire) A driver fatally shot another motorist he said was threatening him with what appeared to be a rifle shortly after midnight Monday in the roundabout at Mendenhall Loop Road and Stephen Richards Memorial Drive, according...
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Screenshot According to John Lott, Jr.—author of More Guns Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws—it’s good. Initially published in 1998, and now in its third edition, Lott’s book “directly challenges common perceptions about the relationship of guns,...
More Television Police Show Bias: Chicago Criminals Using Machine Guns in Many Different Shootings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No7-xgoM47g Apparently another TV show doesn’t think the strict gun control in the UK or Belgium is working too well. As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think...
Worth Listening to: On St. Louis’ Giant KFTK-FM: Discussing the Reality Behind the Crime Statistics
Dr. John Lott appeared on The Mark Reardon Show on St. Louis’ giant 100,000-watt KFTK-FM about his new op-ed at Real Clear Politics titled "What the Stats Really Say About Crime Surge." (Monday, October 20, 2025, from 3:30 PM to 3:45 PM CT)
On KEYS’s Wake Up with Mr. Bill: To Discuss Mass Shootings
Dr. John Lott appeared on KEYS's Wake Up with Mr. Bill to discuss the false narrative of white supremacists doing mass public shootings, the concentration of gun-related violence, and the danger of gun-free zones. (Tuesday, October 14, 2025)
On NTD Newsroom: To Discuss FBI Director Patel’s Update on the Crime Crackdown
https://youtu.be/Bjxc_aD0I2I Dr. John Lott appeared on NTD Newsroom to discuss President Trump’s crackdown on crime, the FBI’s record arrest numbers, and the potential relationship between illegal immigration and the decline in violent crime rates. (Wednesday, October...
On Missoula’s KGVO: Discussing a wide range of crime and gun control issues
Dr. John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center, appeared on the Talk Back program for an hour and a half to discuss our latest research on school shootings and the danger of gun-free zones. Dr. Lott also answered the audience’s crime and...
On Armed American Radio: To Discuss Mass Shootings
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on the Armed American Radio show about the myths surrounding mass shootings and the media’s portrayal of gun violence. They also talked about Dr. Lott's new piece at Townhall titled "Even More Disturbing Than Jay Jones’ Text...
On Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater: Discussing the Crime Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mprmJN9JWY&t=392s Dr. John Lott appeared on Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater to discuss the problem of misinformation in crime statistics and the root causes of rising crime rates. (Friday, October 3, 2025)
PowerPoints from a Debate at the University of Connecticut Law School and a Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Unfortunately, there aren't videos of the presentations, but here are the PowerPoints From the University of Connecticut on October 28th: How does gun control affect public safety? University of Connecticut DebateDownload From the University of Pennsylvania on October...
NBC’s SVU: Television Police Show Bias on Illegal Aliens, Portrays ICE Agents as Villains Allowing Rape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWe1k1fzlS8 The season premiere of Law & Order: SVU cast Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as cold-hearted villains who obstruct the unit’s pursuit of a rapist (S27 E1 09 25 25). . In the episode, “In the Wind,”...
On KLZ’s Rush to Reason: To Discuss the Issues with the FBI’s Crime Statistics
Dr. John Lott appeared on Rush to Reason with John Rush on KLZ in Denver to discuss our research on massive errors in the FBI’s Active Shooting Reports from 2014 to 2024. See also Dr. Lott's new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations titled "Unaccountable:...












