Dr. John Lott talked to Tom Grisham on his national Gun Talk Radio Show about our new research on the FBI's active shooting reports. (Sunday, May 25, 2025)
Blog
A Slight Drop in the Rate that Total Violent Crimes Resulted in an Arrest in 2023, A Very Slight Increase for Property Crimes
We had previously reported that 20.3% of total violent crimes in 2022 result in an arrest and that was true for 3.8% of total property crimes. That was obtained by taking the Bureau of Justice Statistics measure of total violent and property crimes that were reported...
Democrats Claim Striking $200 tax on the Manufacture of Gun Suppressors “does more to support assassins than it does American families.” Do They Know Anything About How Loud Guns Are With Suppressors?
“Quite frankly, what is in the reconciliation bill does more to support assassins than it does American families,” said Massachusetts Representative Jim McGovern. There was some laughter in the hall. “Yeah, well you know what? Talk to law...
CPRC in the News: Instapundit (2), Independent Sentinel (2), America’s 1st Freedom, Ammoland, The Lars Larson Show, and more
Stephen Green, "CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: They’ve Learned Nothing: Dems Still Pushing the Same Failed, Unpopular Gun Control That Got Them Where They Are Today," Instapundit.com, May 22, 2025. This next piece reposts a link to our recent op-ed at Real Clear Politics....
On St. Louis’ Giant 100,000-Watt KFTK-FM: Discussing Our Research On Active Shooting Cases
Dr. John Lott talked to Marc Cox on St. Louis' giant 100,000-watt KFTK-FM about our new research on the FBI's active shooting reports. (Tuesday, May 27, 2025)
Shooting Attack in Seattle Stopped By Concealed Handgun Permit Holder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ZXrQw3r5c While the police were able to arrive on the scene within two minutes of the attack, the attack had already been stopped by a concealed handgun permit holder. . On May 28, at about 10:00 p.m., patrol officers responded to...
On Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson: Discussing Crime Stats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKmjtPo22s0 Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson is a national news program that airs on Sinclair Television stations on Sunday morning. This past Sunday, Attkisson interviewed the CPRC's John Lott about the data on crime rates. She is an...
With the Bias in Entertainment TV’s Current Coverage Against Guns, Here is How NBC’s Law & Order Covered Defensive Gun Use in 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tLhr1dtI2A Television show bias against guns is never-ending. You won’t see an entertainment television show that has a civilian successfully using a gun defensively. Instead, something always seems to go wrong when guns are...
Death Wish 1974 Charles Bronson New York Subway
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GRcScSBHJ84 There are a few movies in this vain of a modern, law-abiding, regular, urban citizens who used guns to stop criminals: "Death Wish" with Bruce Willis or Charles Bronson, "Miss Meadows" with Katie Holmes, "Peppermint" with...
On Armed American Radio: Debunking recent false claims about gun violence in America
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on his national radio show about a recent piece at Time titled: "We’ve Been Thinking About Gun Violence All Wrong." The piece makes the typical claim by gun control advocates that normal, law-abiding people get into arguments that...
On Armed American Radio: Discussing Our New Research on Active Shootings and Claims that Oklahoma’s Firearms Deaths Increased After Constitutional Carry Adopted
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on the Armed American Radio show about our new research on active shooting attacks and the claim that Oklahoma's firearms deaths increased after it adopted Constitutional Carry. (Sunday, May 18, 2025)
On One America News: Biden secret weaponization plan focused on ‘non criminal activity’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkTbKb4IkJ8 Dr. John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center, tells One America News that newly released documents reveal the Biden administration kept secret key elements of a plan to weaponize parts of the federal...