John R Lott Jr.

President @crimeresearch1,"More Guns,Less Crime"(UChicago Press, 3rd ed);10 books, 100+refereed articles. PhD Econ,
Past Sr Advisor USDOJ,UChicago,Wharton,Yale

[John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr]

Amazing NEW Government Crime Data Just RELEASED today!
Felony violent crime fell 25% in 2025. Rape down 13%, robbery 27%, & aggravated assault 31%. Property crime fell 19%. Largest yearly reductions ever recorded for felony violent and property crime!
https://t.co/LhcXtSwxNk

[John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr]

The Dems communist billionaire

A China-based billionaire who pushes Chinese Communist Party talking points has directly funded some of the most powerful progressives in Congress, including members of "The Squad."

FEC records show that Neville Roy Singham & his wife, CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans, have given more than a combined $47,000 to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Chuy García, D-Ill.

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[John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr]

.@AOC says concentrating wealth & economic power in the hands of billionaires creates national security vulnerabilities.

But if we didn’t let people like Jensen Wang become billionaires, we wouldn’t have a security problem b/c we wouldn’t have the advances China wants to steal

[TMZ @TMZ]

AOC says Nvidia spy scandal shows danger of billionaires having too much power.

🎥: @hicharliecotton

[John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr]

“A Honduran illegal alien accused of attempting to enter the cockpit of a United Airlines flight after allegedly claiming to have a bomb had previously been deported from the United States twice, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed”

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Iran efforts to assassinate senior U.S. officials has exceeded an “advance stage,” with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House chief of staff Stephen Miller, & Secretary of State Marco Rubio all relocated to military or protected housing.

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[John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr]

The companies pay a federal corporate income tax of 21%, then there are state income is about 6.57%. So a company makes $1 and has $0.72 left. But then the owners have to pay taxes. The federal governments' top income tax rate is 37%, so you are then left with $0.456. And the average state income tax rate is about 5%, so that lowers it to $0.43 left from that original dollar.
How much do you think they should have left from that original dollar? What is a fair share to take? Note the more you take, the less investments there are, and the reduction in investments means workers are less productive and wages will fall.

[John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr]

Do Democrats know ANYTHING about economics? The first thing she is doing is imposing price controls.

"On Day One as governor, I’ll freeze residential electricity rates and make corporations finally pay their fair share," Hinojosa

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Crazy how Democrats see the US as even worse than Iran. That Iran isn't the adversary and that we are the ones who pushed them into a fight. Would the US and the rest of the world be better off with Iran having nuclear weapons?

[RNC Research @RNCResearch]

Insane exchange. Newly elected Democrat Adam Hamawy refuses to call Iran an adversary.

BROWN: Do you see Iran as the adversary?

HAMAWY: "We pushed them into a fight"

BROWN: But are they the adversary?

HAMAWY: "We should be making friends"

BROWN: They've been saying "death to America" for decades

HAMAWY: "We've been saying 'death to Iran'"

BROWN: They've killed a lot of Americans

HAMAWY: "And we've killed a lot of them"

BROWN: So you don't see Iran as an adversary?

HAMAWY: "I see that we are pushing Iran into a fight"

[John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr]

Democrats are wasting “no time throwing themselves into investigations of American corporations, dispatching letters telling companies they are targets and setting their deadline to produce records for Jan. 4, the first full day of the new Congress. Some of America’s largest businesses—from Amazon to Apple, Live Nation to Walmart —are among the first to feel the heat.”

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And the list goes on. And no one in the mainstream media wants to admit why we are seeing record low murder rates and record drops in crime rates under Trump.

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

NEW: DHS confirms that the suspect arrested by NYPD for allegedly following a 27-year-old woman into a Brooklyn building & then violently raping her on Sunday is a Peruvian illegal alien who was caught and released at the California border by the Biden administration on 8/18/2023.

Per DHS, 35-year-old Reynaldo Hoel Mayna is now charged with anal rape – strongarm, assault with a deadly weapon, forcible touching: touching sexual/intimate parts of another person, and sexual abuse – 3rd degree.

“Sanctuary politicians in New York invited this vile criminal into their community,” said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin.

[woli2017 @woli2017]

@mycielski @MarionKubit @van_eckert If you want to learn about facts on guns in the USA follow @JohnRLottJr and have a read for the start (German, needs translation)

[John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr]

@PpollingNumbers That may simply tell you that the people who used to move from NY more than 10 years ago tended to more Democrat (they may have moved just for the warm weather) and that the ones who moved there more recently were doing it to get away from the crazy liberals in NY.

[John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr]

@SendMoreLawyers Yes, excellent point! The elections were cancelled so they obviously never occurred! I was worried for no reason!

[John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr]

How many times have Democrats complained about stolen elections? 2000, 2004, 2016, 2024, and they weee warning it would happening this year.

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

And wouldn’t you know, President Trump didn’t steal the 2026 elections after all. Democrats and the press spent months publicly fantasizing on variations of that theme.
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Correct, I misremembered that. The average person convicted of violence was arrested 43 months before the pardon and given a sentence of 107 months. Literally just a few were allowed to make bail.

Ten rioters were convicted of assaulting police officers (Julian Khater, Peter Schwartz, Christopher Quaglin, James Tate Grant, Michael Bradley, Robert Scott Palmer, Ryan Samsel, Steven Chase Randolph, Thomas Harlen Smith, and Tyler Bradley Dykes). They faced an average sentence of 90 months (7.5 years) and had already been incarcerated for an average of 40 months after their arrests.

So none of those individuals got of without significant punishment, but again compare it to the punishment given to people on the left who rioted at Trump inauguration in 2017 or the 2020 Lafayette Square riot.

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“On Thursday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) commuted every death sentence in the state... The action covers all 548 people on California’s death row.”

My piece evaluates Newsom’s arguments against the death penalty.

https://t.co/bQrYXcbY34
#deathpenalty #Newsom #crime

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It seems pretty different to me. None of the J6 defendants that Trump dealt with had engaged in any violent actions. Newsom's decision dealt with many mass murderers and murderers who had also engage in torture and child sexual assault. Are those two cases really the same?
Note also NONE of the 2020 Lafayette Square rioters who tried scaling the WH fence (so Trump had to be moved to a secure location) and who injured over 150 officers were even charged with crimes let alone servicing any time.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Wow. Senator John Kennedy.

How is this not everywhere.
Seriously. This is insane. Listen to what he’s actually saying.

[Townhall.com @townhallcom]

Bill Maher CALLS OUT Hakeem Jeffries after he said Stephen Miller’s presence in government should be “eradicated like a malignant tumor.”

“Way to take a victory graciously.”

“Way to cool the temperature down right after that.”

Ali Vitali responds that Democrats face a base that wants “fight and accountability.”

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Another assassination attempt against @realDonaldTrump! An illegal alien who obtained multiple firearms. The massive false positives in the Background check system mainly stop law-abiding individuals.

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

BREAKING: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that a suspect arrested by US Secret Service last night in a stolen vehicle near the White House with a rifle, two handguns, and ammo is a Venezuelan illegal alien who threatened to kill President Trump and was previously caught and released at the Texas border in 2024 by the Biden administration.

Per DHS, last night, Secret Service agents saw a man acting suspiciously in a vehicle on Constitution Ave. near the White House. When agents approached it, the suspect, Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos, told them he was hearing voices in his head telling him to come to DC to kill President Trump. A search of the car revealed he had an AR-15 style rifle, a Mac 10, a Glock-43x, and ammo. The car was also stolen.

He was arrested and charged with carrying a rifle outside of a home or business, three counts of unlawful transportation of a firearm, three counts of unregistered firearms, three counts of unregistered ammunition, possession of certain dangerous weapons, carrying a pistol without a license, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, theft, and receiving stolen property.

ICE has placed a detainer on him with US Marshals, who currently have him in custody. DHS says he crossed the TX border illegally in March 2024 and was released into the country by the Biden admin.

DHS Sec. Mullin is praising the Secret Service agents:

“Thanks to our brave Secret Service officers, this illegal alien with three firearms in his vehicle was arrested near the White House before he could harm anyone,” said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “On top of threatening President Trump, he is an illegal alien from Venezuela who had no business being in our country in the first place. This is just an example of the incredible work done by the men and women of the Secret Service every single day."

[John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr]

No one should use Wikipedia for any topic that is the least controversial or political.

“Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed’s Wikipedia page was whitewashed of controversies by mystery editor before election: sources”

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#Wikipedia @AbdulElSayed