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At the NRA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, in 2025, John Lott gave a seminar on how FBI Crime data is politicized. Of particular interest were the details about how the FBI resisted giving data to the Department of Justice Statistics on active shooters and on errors in the NICS data.
Despite real data showing that illegal aliens commit a disproportionate share of serious crimes, most Americans—thanks to political spin and a complicit press—have been convinced otherwise.
For decades, Second Amendment advocates have considered it to be common sense that armed civilians would be more effective at stopping active shooter attacks on the public than police.
Disturbing! The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Unfairly denies legal gun purchases more often to Black and Hispanic people due to a flaw in how it checks names.
Close to half of all Americans live in a constitutional carry jurisdiction: “46.8% of Americans (157.6 million) now live in Constitutional Carry States, with 67.7% of the land in the country (2.57 million square miles).”
These figures are only the tip of the iceberg. Millions of migrants are violating U.S. laws simply by being here, and many engage in identity theft or other criminal acts to survive.
Newly updated data reveal that violent crime actually increased by 4.5%, a staggering revision that raises serious questions about the FBI’s transparency and reliability.
One cry frequently thrown about by gun banners is more concealed handguns lead to an increase in stolen guns. New findings backed by hard data show that is NOT true.
A paper at the Crime Prevention Research Center shows crime rates rising while arrest rates and reporting of crime is falling. As trust in police falls, crime rates rise.
On March 11, 2024, Dr. John Lott debated the eminent law professor Sanford Levinson on the subject: Was the Second Amendment a Mistake?
There’s a lesson in these numbers, but it’s not one that gun control advocates are interested in, including Joe Biden…
The study found that the effect of constitutional carry laws on reducing murder rates takes time to manifest but that it is statistically significant.
A common gun owner reaction to both Oliver and Bee: If they don’t like it here, why don‘t they go back to where they came from?
Remember the virtue of an armed society. You stopped mass murder and saved lives. Let’s look back a few months and see what you did.
Contrary to the lies told by those who use that incident to discredit “stand your ground” laws, George Zimmerman’s legal defense did not use that argument.
These are, after all, politically-motivated, slickly produced advertisements, as much as the illusionists behind them want us to believe they are “public service announcements.”
The number of concealed handgun permits has soared to over 19.48 million in 2020 & data shows concealed handgun permit holders are extremely law-abiding out-pacing police officers at following the law
They are intending to follow the example of those who provoked the War for Independence by imposing the Intolerable Acts.
There has to be room in the “Big Tent” for principled standard-bearers who caution us when we stray from core principles. I’d argue they should all be.
Let that sink in. More than 18.66 million Americans hold a permit to lawfully carry a concealed firearm to protect themselves and their loved ones.
… it would seem the only thing left would be to ban gun ownership.
For years after Adam Lankford’s study was released to the media in 2015, the New York Times and Washington Post regularly cited his flawed claims and biased data.
The real agenda of the event, which was to create the false impression that an unprecedented wave of firearm-related violence urgently demands an infusion of federal research dollars.
Professor Jon Lott commented that gun owners don’t seem to care about their gun rights as much as they use to. Is that true?
Why cannot liberals tell the truth? We saw it in the Kavanaugh hearings and now we are seeing a blatant example in a recent bogus mass shooting research paper by Adam Lankford.
…that will help to ensure that the information young people get on guns overwhelmingly comes to them from sources intent on undermining the right to keep and bear arms…
One question emerging from the debate over the Lankford and Lott studies on mass shootings: How exactly do you define a mass shooting?
Lankford’s study reported that from 1966 to 2012, there were 90 public mass shooters in the U.S. & 202 in the rest of world. Lankford’s data represent a gross undercount of foreign attacks.
Who thinks the Bloods, the Crips, the Latin Kings, MS-13, Vatos Locos, the 18th Street Gang and all the others will have their activities curtailed in the slightest?
In the twenty years that I have discussed guns in the media, I don’t believe that I have seen such media bias.
