https://youtu.be/g217AXP2-zE Dr. John Lott talked to fill-in host Mike Opelka on Philadelphia’s WPHT Afternoon Show about his new op-eds at Townhall ("The Trump Administration Restores the Gun-Defense Data the Biden CDC Buried") and Real Clear Politics ("Supreme Court...
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UPDATED: Should We Deport Illegal Aliens Only After They’re Convicted?: Waiting for a Drug Selling Conviction Can Cost Taxpayers Up to >$600K. Even if all illegals who have been charged but not convicted face this type of crime, the total legal costs would be up to $149 Billion
Take the case of Isaac Melendez-Carranza, an illegal alien from El Salvador, who was recently arrested for allegedly selling fentanyl to students at Park View High School in Loudoun County, Virginia. Investigators linked him to at least two student...
The CDC Puts Defensive Gun Use Data Back Up on Their Website, But What is There is Extremely Misleading
The CDC recently restored information on defensive gun use that it removed from its website in 2022 after gun-control advocates privately pressured agency officials to take it down. Until May 2022, the CDC cited a 2013 National Academies of Sciences (NAS)...
On The Vicki McKenna Show: To Discuss the Idaho In-N-Out Mass Shooting and Defensive Gun Use
Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin about the recent mass shooting at an Idaho In-N-Out, where an armed citizen and an off-duty Idaho State Police trooper intervened against the shooter, likely preventing further casualties....
On Armed American Radio: To Discuss International Gun Rights, Crime, and Self-Defense
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on Armed American Radio about his international gun-rights work in Argentina and Australia and how foreign gun laws and crime statistics are used to influence American gun-control debates. They also discussed how, while police play...
On Victory News: How can we reduce violent crime? Who are the victims of crime? Who supports more police?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATPEVGNbhVQ Dr. John Lott on a wide range from a violent crime in Michigan to socialism to who are the people don't like the socialist views on reducing crime. A deep dive into murder victim data is available here and to violent crime...
On Sunday Nights with Bill Cunningham Show: To Discuss DEI in Public Safety and Illegal-Immigrant Crime
Dr. John Lott appeared on Sunday Nights with Bill Cunningham Show to discuss the Trump administration’s efforts to reverse the Biden administration’s DEI policies in police and fire departments, growing calls among Democrats to “Abolish ICE,” calls by some Democrats...
Amicus Brief for Supreme Court, Viramontes et al v Cook County, on Assault Weapon Bans in Cook County and Connecticut
The Crime Prevention Research Center has worked with the California Peace Officers Research Association and the California Association of Highway Patrolmen on an Amicus brief for the U.S. Supreme Court looking at “Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments...
On NewsMax2’s Ike Wingate America: To Discuss the DOJ’s New Pathway for Restoring Federal Gun Rights
https://youtu.be/xOtkX5QTFBw Dr. John Lott appeared on Newsmax2’s Ike Wingate America to discuss the Justice Department’s new pathway for restoring federal gun rights to certain people with criminal convictions and the broader implications of the policy for Second...
Spanish Translation of More Guns, Less Crime
Cuando se publicó por primera vez en 1998, la obra de John R. Lott More Guns, Less Crime (MÁS ARMAS, MENOS CRIMEN) suscitó tanto grandes elogios como duras críticas. Más de una década después, con la aparición de su tercera edición, el libro sigue desempeñando un...
On WPHT Afternoon Show: To Discuss Election Integrity, Crime, and School Shootings
https://youtu.be/bumhZ_d_oBY Dr. John Lott talked to fill-in host Mike Opelka on Philadelphia’s WPHT Afternoon Show about a wide range of topics, including Meta’s landmark settlement of up to $17.1 billion over social media addiction claims, election integrity, the...
Interview with the Federation for American Immigration Reform interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOke2EeIS8c Dr. John Lott was interviewed by the Federation for American Immigration Reform about his research on crime rates by illegal aliens. More detailed information can be found here and here. August 26, 2026











