Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Missoulian newspaper in Missoula, Montana. . Two constitutional initiatives to change how Montanans vote will be on the ballot in November, and both are deceptive. Two of them will help Democrats and ensure, ironically,...
While the latest Rasmussen Reports survey of Likely U.S. Voters in the United States finds 51% want stricter gun control laws, 41% disagree. But the breakdown is interesting. Hispanics slightly oppose stricter gun control. Democrats overwhelmingly support stricter gun...
USA Today’s headline on the FBI's reported crime data released in September 2023 claims “Violent crime dropped for second straight year in 2023, including murder and rape.” There are two errors in their headline. First, that it is the FBI’s measure of reported crime...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Washington Times. . Vice President Kamala Harris has pushed back hard on claims that she wants to take people’s guns away by repeatedly saying that she and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz own guns. . It sounds reassuring, but it doesn’t...
Dr. John Lott appeared on TNT Radio’s The Dean Mackin Show to discuss gun defensive uses, especially for women. (Monday, August 5, 2024, from 8:45 to 8:59 PM ET)
A clear majority of even Californians support making criminal penalties stiffer -- by two-to-one ratio. Even 47% of somewhat liberal people support stiffing the penalties. Nearly 58 percent of the 1,685 likely voters surveyed support Proposition 36, a November ballot...
Here is a letter that we submitted to the New York Times a couple weeks ago. The letter was not published by the Times. Background: I have served as the senior advisor for research and statistics in the US Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs and the...
https://youtu.be/AlyU_j_522I Dr. John Lott joined Andrew Wilkow on Salem News Channel to discuss the truth about the crime statistics and the newly released FBI’s measure of reported crime data for 2023. (Monday, September 23, 2024)
https://youtu.be/YoFQ0CSWf38 Dr. John Lott appeared on NewsMax’s Rob Schmitt Tonight to discuss the violent crime that has soared under the Biden-Harris administration according to the just-released data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’s National Crime...
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. has a new op-ed piece at Townhall. Homemade guns have been around since before the United States was a country, but gun control advocates refer to them today as “ghost guns.” VanDerStok v. Garland, which the Supreme Court will hear...
Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin about the latest released statistics showing crime up under the Biden-Harris administration. (Monday, September 16, 2024) Vicki’s show covers most of Wisconsin and part of the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDDAzQzf0pU Here is part of Elon Musk's talk for President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on October 5th, 2024. Musk talks about how private gun ownership protects the First Amendment. We focus on that part of his talk because of our...