The list of active shooting cases that were averted by people legally carrying guns, and were missed in the FBI Active Shooting reports. The FBI's definition of active shootings is narrow: it involves cases where a gun is fired in public and not part of some other...
By more than a 3.5-to-1 margin, voters continue to favor Voter Photo IDs to help ensure election integrity. The latest Rasmussen Reports national survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds that 73% believe that photo ID to vote is a reasonable requirement to protect the...
Dr. John Lott talked to fill-in host Jason Lewis on 92.5 Right All Along’s The Drive with Trey Radel (WFSX-FM in the Fort Myers-Naples area of Southwest Florida) about Lott's op-ed pieces on the deterrence effect of the death penalty as well as the recent crimes in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-sRMhe8G0E Another bystander, who Kolakowski later learned is also a Marine, drew a gun on the attacker. “The other Marine told me that he just went shooting at a range, and he forgot to take his pistol off his hip,” Kolakowski said....
The statistics showing that greater gun ownership correlates to lower violent crime are clear. John Lott spelled out in “More Guns, Less Crime” that comparisons of neighboring counties with similar populations saw violent crime decrease in the counties that allowed...
Dr. John Lott will be giving talks in Argentina in July.
Here is a recording of one of the three different talks that Dr. John Lott's presented at the 2025 NRA meetings in Atlanta. Here is a link to the book with the graphs that the talk was based on and the two video that he showed....
Dr. John Lott talked to Larry Elder about the media's call for gun control and concerns about ghost guns in the aftermath of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder allegedly by Luigi Mangione. A more detailed discussion on ghost guns can be obtained...
We will shortly be releasing a Real Clear Investigations analysis based on estimates developed by the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) suggests that crime by illegal aliens who entered the U.S. by July 21, 2024, cost the country some...
The letter asks several questions to the FBI, such as if they omitted any data from various major cities, how many agencies provided incomplete data and if the data would be retroactively adjusted to reflect an increase in violent crime, like it had in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r_xc09q9vo From Stossel TV: The FBI says self-defense with a gun is RARE, and their statistics support that. The legacy media, Hollywood, and left-wing politicians use that data to push gun control. Six days after the video was posted...