. . . There are currently 25 states with constitutional carry. When there were only 13–Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming–the Crime Prevention Research Center...
As law enforcement has broken down in many parts of the United States, gun sales and concealed handgun permits increased so that people can go and protect themselves. The problem is that many of those who have supported District Attorneys who won't prosecute violent...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjhaTfb1wXo Dr. John Lott talked to WBAL TV (Channel 11) in Baltimore about a bill creating gun-free zones in the state. Lott was also interviewed by the Maryland Reporter shown below. ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Hundreds of people signed up to...
“Does Biden talk to police to see why they do what they do? Biden doesn’t understand policing,” John Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, said Monday. “If he wants to increase retention, don’t immediately release criminals &...
The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler has a long discussion about our research on the FBI's Active Shooting cases. One benefit from Kessler's piece is that he was actually able to get the Texas State University people to respond to two of the cases that we provided. Dr....
Greg Wehner, "New Jersey governor signs new gun law, drawing lawsuit from the NRA," Fox News, December 22, 2022. . . . Americans have frequently used legal guns to thwart crimes, defend themselves or their homes and even stop mass shootings. Some estimates...
From The Washington Times. Homicide rates have spiked, but most of America has remained untouched. Only a tiny fraction of U.S. counties account for nearly all of the country’s homicides, according to research released Tuesday that showed a striking concentration...
A recent study conducted by the Crime Prevention Research Center found there were 22 times more attacks against pro-life groups since the leak in early May of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade compared to attacks on pro-choice organizations. A...
On Thursday, December 15th, 2022, Dr John Lott testified before the US House Judiciary Subcommittee looking into the Uvalde mass murder and other similar attacks. This also appeared in The San Antonio Express-News. . GOP witnesses testified that popular gun control...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBHOm2jlN7o In a House floor speech, Congressman Louie Gohmert Speech Reads from the Crime Prevention Research Center's Op-ed at Newsweek (June 9, 2022). The piece's title was: "Democrats’ Focus On ‘Gun Control’ Won’t Solve Any of Our...
“Violent crime is becoming common in Sweden,” as it is throughout the European Europe, report John R. Lott & James Varney at RealClearInvestigations. And an RCI analysis “strongly” links the surge with immigration: “Each one percentage point increase in immigrant...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDCoRtb878Q On Fox News, Sean Hannity briefly mentions John Lott's research in his book "More Guns, Less Crime" (University of Chicago) (May 31, 2022).