German first, English translation following it. Man muss nicht immer hilflos auf die Polizei warten – und eventuell zum Opfer werden. Nach einer Auswertung des Crime Prevention Research Center stoppten legal bewaffnete Bürger in den USA zwischen 2014 und 2025...
But the Crime Prevention Research Center did its own study and found the FBI missed a number of cases and misclassified others. CPRC said when those are included properly, “good guys with guns” were involved in stopping more than a third of active-shooter attacks....
A report by Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) president John Lott shows armed citizens stopped a third of all “active shooter incidents” from 2014 through 2025. Lott then presented the CPRC data as a correction to FBI reports which claim armed citizens...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MiWs2JCvqc Ezra Levant: You know, Dr. John Lott is a US scholar who is, and it's interesting to, to talk to him because he doesn't make the argument from a moral point of view or from a constitutional point of view. He never argues...
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) updated its webpage regarding firearm injury on Sept. 29 to correct verbiage that underestimated the frequency with which guns are used for self-defense. The CDC had restored information regarding studies of the use of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNgXapt_2bo Ann Coulter on the Crime Prevention Research Center's Estimates of the Cost of Prosecuting Illegals. The original research is available here and here.
“I think it is well timed and I think it will be, you know, something that will be mentioned in the assault weapon ban case,” Dr. John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told the DCNF. “It’s going to come up before the Supreme Court because it...
Stephen Dinan at the Washington Times has a news story on our newest report on errors in the FBI's active shooting reports. Our report is available here and the underlying list of cases can be found here. As usual, "The FBI didn’t respond to a request for comment for...
According to research published by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), many studies have found that right-to-carry or concealed carry laws are associated with reductions in violent crime by increasing the potential risks faced by offenders. CPRC...
Lars Larson discussed Dr. Lott’s new op-ed piece at The Federalist on his national radio show. Here is the link to the op-ed: "Socialists’ Demands To Abolish Police And Prisons Will Mean More Dead Americans." (Monday, August 10, 2026)
Screenshot John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and former senior advisor for Research and Statistics in the U.S. Department of Justice, told The Washington Stand that if the trend continues, the country will experience the lowest ever murder...
Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and Sean Trende discussed Dr. Lott’s new piece at RealClearPolitics on the Megyn Kelly Channel on SiriusXM. Here is the link to the piece: “Krugman and the Politics of Falling Crime.” (Tuesday, August 11, 2026)