“I think it is well timed and I think it will be, you know, something that will be mentioned in the assault weapon ban case,” Dr. John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told the DCNF. “It’s going to come up before the Supreme Court because it...
On September 8, 2026, President Abelardo De la Espriella signed Decree 1368, lifting Colombia’s nationwide suspension of permits to carry firearms. The decree ends the general prohibition on firearm-carry permits that Colombia had maintained since 2014. This follows...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_OBCQi1k0 Sky McAdams, an organizing manager for Texas Majority PAC, says: “We are paying people $25 to attend a one-hour Zoom class to learn why voting is important and why the Republicans are causing all of these bad things. So it’s...
https://youtu.be/-J18QkHijkI Dr. John Lott appeared on Strictly Speaking: Unfiltered with Bob Frantz to discuss rising violence in New York City and Chicago and Democratic leaders’ refusal to accept federal assistance from the Trump administration. They also discussed...
https://youtu.be/y4r7Asz8L0Y Dr. John Lott talked to guest host Carl Jackson on The Larry Elder Show about his op-ed at The Federalist, "Socialists’ Demands To Abolish Police And Prisons Will Mean More Dead Americans." (Wednesday, September 2, 2026)
Katy, Texas, April 1, 2026 (ABC 13 Eyewitness New) On Wednesday at around 10 a.m. in the Highland Creek Ranch neighborhood, home security cameras recorded what looked like a woman walking with a gun. This led a homeowner to call the police. The homeowner said officers...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the New York Post. Also linked at Real Clear Politics. . Much of today’s deportation debate centers on the question of who should count as “criminals” to be immediately sent back to their home countries — with anti-deportation...
Dr. John Lott appeared on The Dave Elswick Show in Little Rock, Arkansas, to discuss his new op-eds at Townhall ("The Trump Administration Restores the Gun-Defense Data the Biden CDC Buried") and Real Clear Politics ("Supreme Court Just Gave Mail-In Ballot Safeguards...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. It was also published at The Blaze and World Net Daily. . Whoever controls crime data can shape the political debate. The Trump administration has already reversed some of the changes the Biden administration made...
Stephen Dinan at the Washington Times has a news story on our newest report on errors in the FBI's active shooting reports. Our report is available here and the underlying list of cases can be found here. As usual, "The FBI didn’t respond to a request for comment for...
Democrats and open borders organizations such as the CATO Institute think that only illegal aliens who have been convicted of crime should be deported, and even many times they don't think that those individuals should be deported. The media often follows this lead...
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters and Arizona Representative Quang Nguyen on the Armed American Radio show about new FBI crime data, estimates of defensive gun use ranging from 60,000 to roughly 2.5 million incidents annually, and why surveys may miss cases where...