Since the Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen decision, television writers and producers have worked over time to try to convince Americans that concealed carry of handguns is dangerous. Unfortunately, HBO’s Lanterns is not off to a promising start…
Cleveland, Ohio, May 2, 2026 (News 5 Cleveland) Officers responded to six ShotSpotter alerts, totaling over 50 rounds of gunfire, on the 3800 block of East 131st Street. When officers arrived, they found the vehicle’s owner and another man…
Dr. John Lott appeared on The Mark Davis Show on 660 AM The Answer in Dallas, TX, to talk about his new op-ed at the New York Post titled “Left’s push to delay deporting illegal-migrant criminals imposes huge costs on taxpayers.” They also…
Dr. John Lott Jr. appeared on Stinchfield Tonight on Real America’s Voice to discuss his new op-ed at Real Clear Politics titled “CDC Undercounts Defensive Gun Uses.” (Monday, September 14, 2026)
Dr. John Lott talked to Jeff Stein on Iowa’s giant 50,000-watt KXEL-AM radio station about the current state of the economy. They also discussed Dr. Lott’s new op-ed at Real Clear Politics titled “Supreme Court Just Gave Mail-In Ballot…
Congressman Thomas Massie gives a speech on the House floor that mentions Dr. John Lott. Our discussion of the bill Massie is discussing is provided in this write up at Real Clear Politics. Democrats claim that 5.1 million dangerous or…
Dr. John Lott talked to John Hines on One America News about the CDC’s recent restoration of information on defensive gun use that the agency had removed from its website in 2022 after gun-control advocates privately pressured officials to…
We have previously written on Vince Vaughn’s views on the danger or gun-free zones. From the New York Post: Von asked whether he had ever felt ostracized by Hollywood because of his beliefs and actions. “I got along with people for the…
Dr. John Lott appeared on 700 WLW’s The Bill Cunningham Show in Cincinnati to discuss his new op-ed at the New York Post titled “Left’s push to delay deporting illegal-migrant criminals imposes huge costs on taxpayers.” (Tuesday, September…
Dr. John Lott appeared on The Vic Porcelli Show on St. Louis’ Giant KLJY to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to stay an injunction blocking President Trump’s March executive order on mail-in ballots. They also discussed public concerns…
“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…
On September 8, 2026, President Abelardo De la Espriella signed Decree 1368, lifting Colombia’s nationwide suspension of permits to carry firearms. The decree ends the general prohibition on firearm-carry permits that Colombia had…
Sky McAdams, an organizing manager for Texas Majority PAC, says: “We are paying people $25 to attend a one-hour Zoom class to learn why voting is important and why the Republicans are causing all of these bad things. So it’s like a…
Dr. John Lott talked to guest host Carl Jackson on The Larry Elder Show about his op-ed at The Federalist, “Socialists’ Demands To Abolish Police And Prisons Will Mean More Dead Americans.” (Wednesday, September 2, 2026)
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the New York Post. . Much of today’s deportation debate centers on the question of who should count as “criminals” to be immediately sent back to their home countries — with anti-deportation advocates…
Dr. John Lott appeared on Strictly Speaking: Unfiltered with Bob Frantz to discuss rising violence in New York City and Chicago and Democratic leaders’ refusal to accept federal assistance from the Trump administration. They also discussed…
Dr. John Lott appeared on The Dave Elswick Show in Little Rock, Arkansas, to discuss his new op-eds at Townhall (“The Trump Administration Restores the Gun-Defense Data the Biden CDC Buried“) and Real Clear Politics (“Supreme Court Just…
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. . Whoever controls crime data can shape the political debate. The Trump administration has already reversed some of the changes the Biden administration made to federal crime and gun…
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…
Democrats and open borders organizations such as the CATO Institute think that only illegal aliens who have been convicted of crime should be deported, and even many times they don’t think that those individuals should be deported. The…
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters and Arizona Representative Quang Nguyen on the Armed American Radio show about new FBI crime data, estimates of defensive gun use ranging from 60,000 to roughly 2.5 million incidents annually, and why…
Dr. John Lott talked to fill-in host Mike Opelka on Philadelphia’s WPHT Afternoon Show about his new op-eds at Townhall (“The Trump Administration Restores the Gun-Defense Data the Biden CDC Buried“) and Real Clear Politics (“Supreme Court…
Data: For convenience, the Excel file is available here, as well as a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories (see also here). We also show cases that the FBI missed of both armed and unarmed civilians stopping…
Take the case of Isaac Melendez-Carranza, an illegal alien from El Salvador, who was recently arrested for allegedly selling fentanyl to students at Park View High School in Loudoun County, Virginia. Investigators linked him to at least…
The CDC recently restored information on defensive gun use that it removed from its website in 2022 after gun-control advocates privately pressured agency officials to take it down. Until May 2022, the CDC cited a 2013 National Academies…
Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin about the recent mass shooting at an Idaho In-N-Out, where an armed citizen and an off-duty Idaho State Police trooper intervened against the shooter, likely…
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on Armed American Radio about his international gun-rights work in Argentina and Australia and how foreign gun laws and crime statistics are used to influence American gun-control debates. They also…
Dr. John Lott on a wide range from a violent crime in Michigan to socialism to who are the people don’t like the socialist views on reducing crime. A deep dive into murder victim data is available here and to violent crime data here.…
olice and fire departments, growing calls among Democrats to “Abolish ICE,” calls by some Democrats to defund the police and abolish prisons, and illegal-immigrant crime. See also Dr. Lott’s piece at The Federalist (“Data Shows Biden Made…
The Crime Prevention Research Center has worked with the Peace Officers Research Association of California and the California Association of Highway Patrolmen on an Amicus brief for the U.S. Supreme Court looking at “Whether the Second and…