UPDATE: Data directly from the Federal Police shows a different set of numbers (Original Post below). The number of CAC licenses in Brazil increased from 867,472 in 2022 to 1,026,633 in 2026 (see screenshots below), but those are internal government numbers that links...
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...
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This is Dr. John Lott's fourth book to be translated into Portuguese. . Mitos sobre o desarmamento, de John Lott Jr. . Nesta obra, o autor realiza uma análise incisiva das falácias que permeiam os debates sobre a posse de armas, desafiando, com dados e argumentos...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2_3QjE19JQ Dr. John Lott spoke in Sao Paulo, Brazil on July 5th about how to stop crime and what to do when law enforcement isn't doing its job. There is an audio problem at the very beginning, but it is fixed quickly. The Portuguese...
Dr. John Lott and Kerry Slone, our new Director for Education, will give talks in Brazil and Ecuador over the next two weeks.
Fox News has a news article on a bet that Dr. John Lott offered twelve prominent pro-gun control academics. He wrote about this offer in The Federalist and in the piece he deals with the claims made below by a couple of the academics. A gun expert is asking academics...
Dr. John Lott contacted 12 prominent gun-control advocate academics, and he offered a $1,000 bet on if Brazil’s homicide rate would go up or down during the first two years of the bans that President Lula has implemented. Here are the records of the correspondence...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. Copies of the correspondence are available here. This piece also appeared in American Liberty. “I contacted 12 prominent gun-control advocates…I offered a $1,000 bet on if Brazil’s homicide rate would go up or down...
The original text in Portuguese of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's first executive order is available here. The order represents a dramatic change in the regulations dealing with guns and ammunition. An English translation of the order is available...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics on what is happening in Brazil. The piece also appeared in The Epoch Times. . Although one wouldn’t know it from the media coverage of gun control, the best social science has shown that law-abiding citizens...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pav1XCHqYiM Dr. John Lott spoke in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil, on August 4th, 2022. His speech focused on Brazil's experience with loosening gun control laws. It expanded on the piece that he recently published in the Wall Street...