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)
“This isn’t rocket science,” John Lott, a former DOJ advisor and the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told The Post. “If you want to reduce crime, whether it’s murders or you want to reduce car thefts, you have to make it riskier for criminals to go...
A national survey commissioned by the Crime Prevention Research Center and conducted this year validates what Second Amendment advocates have long argued: the public rejects the gun control premise. When asked what would do the most to reduce violent crime, voters...
According to a 2025 report by the Crime Prevention Research Center, there are approximately 20.9 million concealed carry permit holders in the United States, representing about 7.8 percent of the adult population. However, that figure understates the number of people...
Colion Noir, "Australia’s Gun Control Experiment Has A Dark Side," YouTube, June 15, 2026. As for e), Trump’s supposed lawless deportations, economist John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center wrote: “The 170 ICE-detained US citizens … included about...
Personal crimes such as rape and sexual assault are three times higher in gun-controlled Australia than in the USA, a report in the Spectator/Australia on Wednesday details. Written by Malcolm Roberts and John Lott, Jr., the report begins by...
While anti-Second Amendment politicians have pushed laws targeting so-called “Glock switches,” their use in homicide has been rarer than fatal lightning strikes since 2021. Supporters of the measures passed in four states claimed that so-called “Glock switches” are...
Bill Frady discussed our research on 98.9 WORD, highlighting significant inaccuracies in the FBI’s Active Shooter Reports. (Tuesday, May 26, 2026)
Economist John R. Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told NHJournal that the arguments being made by opponents of campus carry are already being refuted by the data. “About a dozen states already have campus carry, and some have had it for...