Here is part of a talk that Dr. John Lott gave on February 26th, 2026 at the University of Houston that explained how useful economics is in understanding law. The audio is provided above and the PowerPoint that went with the talk is provided below. There ended up...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist on the shooting crimes by transgender individuals. This piece was the top trending piece at The Federalist. . We’re repeatedly told that transgender individuals are “not prone to commit gun violence.” Major...
https://rumble.com/v75lcn4-graham-and-john-speak-with-john-lott.html Dr. John Lott talked to Graham Hood and John Larter on Club Grubbery about a wide range of topics, including Australia’s higher-than-perceived violent crime rates, interpretations of the post-1996...
Dr. John Lott joined Paul Brennan on RCR Media to discuss Australia’s new gun buyback scheme introduced after the Bondi terror attack, arguing that the scheme will do little to prevent crime and that increased gun ownership, in fact, reduces crime. (Thursday, February...
The Investigative Journalism Foundation has discovered that a 2021 data breach that exposed the names of 2.2 million gun owners. . A hack linked to the Canadian program overseeing firearm licences and registration was the largest data breach reported by a federal...
"You go 13 days without a homicide occurring, those homicides would have invariably been very heavily Black," John Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. "And so those lives, you have Blacks who didn't...
https://youtu.be/M9fPk_gU_yQ Dr. John Lott talked to the Guns.com crew at SHOT Show 2026 about a wide range of gun policy issues, including gun-free zones potentially attracting attackers, lawful concealed carry reducing harm, permitting costs and delays discouraging...
https://youtu.be/-2cjMx3Ku_I?si=1HS-D5sCZksSQRyu Dr. John Lott appeared on The Tudor Dixon Podcast to discuss the real deportation records under Barack Obama and Donald Trump, exposing how media narratives often distort the facts. They explored how political decisions...
General Michael Flynn organized a talk that I gave on voting rules in other countries and some academic research that I have done on voting. The PowerPoint below will help you follow along with the talk. A copy of the PowerPoint is available here. Vote Fraud Mail-in...
A widely cited February 2024 report by Politifact claimed: "No evidence of rising LGBTQ+ violent extremism or 'trans terrorism." A follow up report by Politifact in September 2025 examined both the FBI's definition of active shooting attacks and the notion of mass...
Because Democrats are reluctant to catch and punish criminals, it is no surprise that a new Rasmussen Reports survey finds Americans trust Republicans more on crime—though the 5-percentage-point gap remains modest. Even as murder rates fell last year to historic...
In 2025, ICE arrested and deported approximately 600,000 illegal immigrants — most of whom, as former Department of Justice official and scholar John Lott has pointed out, were detained with administrative warrants issued by immigration judges under DOJ or the...