One point that the debate over deporting illegal aliens often ignores is that authorities frequently deport individuals after they have been arrested and charged with crimes, but before a court has convicted them. Open-borders advocates, including the Cato Institute,...
“Democrats keep claiming that Trump ‘gave away’ $40 billion to Argentina,” but “the claim isn’t true,” explains John R. Lott Jr. at RealClearPolitics. “The US didn’t give Argentina money. It entered into a currency swap — and the US has actually earned a...
Jews in New York City are understandably reacting to Anti-Israel Zohran Mamdani’s victory. . . . . Jewish New Yorkers are arming themselves before an anti-Israel “mayor who despises us” takes the helm of New York City, several told The Post this week. . Michael...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjX3mHdUtfg Apparently another TV show doesn’t think the strict gun control in the UK is working too well. As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are...
After a review by the Crime Prevention Research Center, they found that armed "good Samaritans" stopped as many as 62% of all active-shooter incidents. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has somehow managed to record that number as being just 3.7%. This comes from...
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.