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Australians are dramatically more likely to be victims of violent crime than Americans
Dr. John Lott and CPRC senior fellow Kesten Green, who is also a researcher at the Adelaide University, College of Business and Law, compared the violent crime rates in Australia and the United States. Australian are clearly at much greater risk of violent crime than...
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Spectator Australia: Australians more likely to be victims of violent crime than Americans
Dr. John Lott and CPRC senior fellow Kesten Green, who is also a researcher at the Adelaide University, College of Business and Law, have a new op-ed piece in the Spectator Australia. More information on this issue is provided in our post here. An additional reason...
At the New York Post: New data reveals the horrific truth about illegal-immigrant crime
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the New York Post. ChatGPT and Grok's evaluations of the accuracy of the article are attached at the end. A comparison is also provided for the Texas and American Community Survey (ACS) data that is often used by those who want to...
At The Federalist: The supposed benefits of Australia’s gun confiscation rest on flawed statistics.
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. The graphs for the changes in firearm and total homicides as well as for firearm and total suicides are provided at the end of this piece. . Democrats in the United States repeatedly praise Australia’s 1996 gun...
In the Australian Spectator: Gun laws and the helpless horror of Bondi: Would even tougher gun laws have saved lives at Bondi?
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed in the Australian Spectator with Kesten Green, a researcher at the University of South Australia, about the massacre of Jews at the Bondi beach in Australia. The piece appeared in Australia on December 16th, 2025. . Australia already has...
At Real Clear Politics: WSJ’s Fearmongering Doesn’t Survive Contact With the Evidence
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Real Clear Politics. Also covered at Zero Hedge, Lucianne.com, and JohnLocke.org. . Legally armed civilians, we’re told, pose a major danger. They shoot innocent bystanders, justifiably kill others whenever they personally...
At The Federalist: DOJ Lawsuits Against Gun Control Policies Especially Protect The Weak
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at The Federalist. . Gun control laws disproportionately harm minorities, women, and the poor — the people who benefit most from being able to protect themselves. _________ In a major shakeup at the U.S. Department of Justice, the...
At Real Clear Politics: She Saved Her Life. 7-Eleven Fired Her
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. Also published at The Daily Signal, Zero Hedge, Yahoo, and World Net Daily. . Stephanie Dilyard is lucky to be alive. . Yet last week, 7-Eleven fired the 25-year-old after she used her gun to save her own...
At Real Clear Politics: There Is No Argentina ‘Bailout’–U.S. Earned a Profit
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at RealClearPolitics. Also at Hotair.com and World Net Daily. . Democrats keep claiming that Trump “gave away” $40 billion to Argentina, and many people are understandably upset. How, they ask, could the United States hand over...
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Talking to Australian University Students about crime rates, mass public shootings, and gun control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrBA2eIYdws Dr. John Lott addressed university students from the University of New South Wales, Australian National University, and other local colleges in New South Wales during his visit to Australia on February 8th, 2026. The...
Talk at Australia National University: Do Armed Civilians Stop Active Shooters More Effectively Than Uniformed Police?
Dr. John Lott will be giving a talk at Australia National University on Monday, February 9th from noon to 1 PM AEDT. Tickets to the talk are available here. . The FBI tracks active shooting cases-where individuals attempt to kill people in public places, excluding...
Talk in Brazil 2025 on How to Make People Safer
https://youtu.be/mSRArgsIXwg?si=0mT4jjMoDETqRUQ0&t=729 Sorry, the video is bouncing around a fair amount. While the video here is started at Lott's presentation, you can watch Luciano Lara's talk before Lott. Dr. John Lott gave a talk in Brazil on July 5th that...
Media Appearances
On Central California’s KNZR: To Discuss Crime Trends
Dr. John Lott talked to Terry Maxwell on Central California’s KNRZ at the SHOT Show 2026 about crime involving illegal immigrants, transparency at the FBI and Department of Justice, and ongoing fraud concerns. See also Dr. Lott's new op-ed at the New York Post titled...
On the Lars Larson Show: To Discuss Shooting Crimes by Transgender Individuals
Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson on his national radio show about his new piece at The Federalist titled "The Real Rate Of Transgender Violence Is Much Worse Than The Media Wants To Admit." (Friday, February 27, 2026)
On Brisbane Mornings with Steve Austin on Australian Broadcasting Corporation: To Discuss Australia’s Gun Policy
Dr. John Lott Jr. talked to Steve Austin on ABC Brisbane about gun-related crime and Australia’s gun policies in the aftermath of the Bondi Beach incident. The full interview lasted for 45 minutes, so this is just a short portion of our interview. There is a lot of...
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The past three years have also had transgender mass shootings in Nashville, Minneapolis and Colorado Springs. A report by the Crime Prevention Research Center shows that from 2018 to 2024, transgender people committed active shootings at least 12 times their share of...
Gun Control Activists Once Again Argue for Disarming the Police, From Brady to Giffords to Moms Demand to The Trace
On January 8th, Brady United's president Kris Brown put out a tweet: We don't know the details behind the shootings of 2 people by a Border Patrol agent in Portland. But I know one thing for certain: whether in the hands of federal officers or everyday...
Big Mail-in Vote Fraud: Lodi, California ex-councilman Shakir Khan sentenced for registering 23 voters to his home address, and used his personal email/phone to register 47 other people, 41 completed sealed mail-in ballots found in his home
Shakir Khan, a politician in Lodi, California, created 70 fake voters and cast mail-in ballots for at least 41 of them. A police investigation also found that he targeted members of Lodi’s Pakistani community, pressuring them to vote for him and, in some cases,...















