https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4wz_DfaITs It is greatly appreciated that Washington Gun Law did this deep dive into data that we put out. We only recently became aware of this video, and it has been out for a while. There are a couple of little mistakes in the...
Dr. John Lott gave a talk to police at the provincial police headquarters in the Argentinian Province of Córdoba. A copy of Lott's Power point without the video is available here. The video is available here. Argentina-Talk-2025-Police-Without-VideoDownload Weapons....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZMHnU8UcHw Again, we appreciate Washington Gun Law covering our data on this. We have updated the data discussed in this post. Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, discusses some raw data released by the Crime Prevention...
. . . Firearms researcher John Lott reminds us, too, that rifles, per se, like the AR-15, are involved in only a fraction of these incidents. His analysis of such shooting incidents taking place between 1998 and 2024 finds that in only 17.3 percent of them did the...
Stephen Green, "CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: They’ve Learned Nothing: Dems Still Pushing the Same Failed, Unpopular Gun Control That Got Them Where They Are Today," Instapundit.com, May 22, 2025. This next piece reposts a link to our recent op-ed at Real Clear Politics....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCOjqSzn4y4 Texas House Bill 3053, introduced in the 2025-2026 legislative session, prohibits municipalities and counties running firearm "buyback" programs. The bill aims to prevent these programs from removing firearms...
. . . Dr. John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and a former Justice Department official, told the John Solomon Reports podcast that looking at “non-criminal behavior” by federal law enforcement was concerning. “Well, back in June 2021,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG-WYRAwrMo There are a number of pieces of information on this issue that we provided Greg Gutfeld. 1) Last year, the Biden administration admitted that 9% of the so-called "non-detained" illegals who were released into the US had...
A 2022 study from the Crime Prevention Research Center looked at changes in crime and killings of police after adopting constitutional carry. Using data from 13 states, researchers found that the drop in murder is statistically significant, but the change in...
John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, has extensively studied the global phenomenon of mass violence. Lott’s research debunks the common misconception that America leads the world in mass shootings or school violence. “While the U.S. had about...
Our recent research titled "Do Armed Civilians Stop Active Shooters More Effectively Than Uniformed Police?" has gotten some more coverage. Active shooter events have been tracked by the FBI for over two decades. There are interesting results when those statistics are...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLfTDTxL2X8 Colion Noir has a discussion from our newest research. Another video by Gun Owners Radio is shown below. Are armed civilians actually better at stopping active shooters than police? A new study by John Lott and Carlisle...