Crime Prevention Research Center

A research & education organization conducting academic quality research on laws regulating the ownership or use of guns, crime, policing, & public safety.

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Again the survey data shows a consensus exists among most criminologists and economists. Public health people are the ones who disagree. The biggest problem with the critical work is that they only start the data pretty late, often around 1990 or even 2000 on. Here are two papers

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You have not looked at the research. The several dozen peer-reviewed studies provided in the link (with links to each study so you can double check them) all look at data for ALL the counties in the US for ALL the years the data is available. Lott’s book MGLC from the U Chicago press looked at all the city, county & state level data for all the years it was available & accounted for hundreds of different factors and did six qualitatively different tests. The published survey linked to looked at ALL academics who had published refereed empirical research on guns & again criminologists and economists overwhelmingly agreed with his findings.

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As gun-grabbers pedal legislation attacking "convertible pistols," @CrimeResearch1 findings show that there's “no evidence that law-abiding gun owners are converting their handguns."

Check out the findings ⬇️
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@kennedylnicole @MRobertsQLD @JacintaAllanMP @AlboMP @ShingvWorld @MaryAnneThomas @IngridStitt How has Senator Roberts permitted this problem to continue? He is the one to point it out and make sure people are aware of it so it can be fixed, right?

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OK, so the Guardian piece mentions one problem that existed for a while with the FBI crime data on crime reported to the police. This is one reason researchers have relied on the Bureau of Justice Statistics data. Your point confirms, doesn’t contradict the point in the senator’s post, right? The Australian data is from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

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@DrCarlHindy Again, if you bothered to look at the links provided, you would see a long list of peer-reviewed academic research, the vast majority of research supports the MGLC hypothesis. You would see the survey of those who publish academic empirical work, & criminologists & Econ agree

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Carl, the large majority of peer reviewed research taking many different approaches support the original findings by Lott and Mustard and Lott's book MGLC. Is there any research that has been replicated and confirmed in so many different peer reviewed papers?
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The vast majority of criminologists and economists agree with that original research. Public health people disagree, but as noted below, there are real problems with their research.
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Peer reviewed research providing an explanation for the fatal flaws in the public health research on the other side.
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Dr. John Lott appeared on 700 WLW’s The Bill Cunningham Show in Cincinnati to discuss how rising rates of lawful concealed carry, particularly among women, Black Americans, and Hispanic Americans, together with stronger law enforcement and immigration enforcement, have coincided with declining violent crime and historically low murder rates, while emphasizing that defensive gun use occurs far more frequently than criminal gun use. See also Dr. Lott’s new piece at Real Clear Investigations titled “Gun Safety: Violent Crime Drops as More Americans Pack Heat.
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Concealed carry is becoming increasingly common across America. A new survey commissioned by the Crime Prevention Research Center finds that nearly 30% of likely voters carry a firearm at least occasionally, a significant increase from previous years. The trend comes as more states adopt constitutional carry laws, eliminating permit requirements for law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns.
In this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, Maggie Miller speaks with John R. Lott about what’s driving the surge in concealed carry, whether predictions that expanded carry laws have increased violent crime, the debate over correlation versus causation, and a message to critics.
Maggie Miller, “Constitutional Carry Expands – Are Americans Safer?,” Real Clear, June 5, 2026.
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A series of shocking videos show homeless residents on Los Angeles’ Skid Row claiming they were paid to vote for Mayor Karen Bass and councilwoman Nithya Raman.
The California Post obtained copies of the videos after they were published Tuesday on the TikTok account LaneNeedsSpencerPratt.
The footage, recorded near 7th Street and Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday morning, has since been provided to the Department of Justice. It also follows The Post’s revelations that thousands of homeless voters were registered to shelters where they didn’t live.
One shelter in Venice, where 185 Raman voters were registered, received $600,000 from taxpayers care of the socialist Raman.
In one of the clips, a man who calls himself Kevin Shepherd, claimed he received $4 to vote for Bass. . . .
Jamie Paige and Katie Jerkovich, “Skid Row homeless claim they’ve been paid to vote for Karen Bass and Nithya Raman,” New York Post, June 9, 2026.
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The shocking truth about Australian crime rates

"Many Australians believe our crime rate is low compared with countries like the United States, yet sadly that myth stems from misunderstanding statistics about how crime is measured"

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#Australia #USA #Crime

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Version not behind the paywall

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#australia #usa #Crime #2a

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The shocking truth about Australian crime rates

"Many Australians believe our crime rate is low compared with countries like the United States, yet sadly that myth stems from misunderstanding statistics about how crime is measured"

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Interesting survey results here from @JohnRLottJr's Crime Prevention Research Center. The racial breakdown--blacks and Hispanics carry at a higher rate as a proportion of the population than whites and Asians--makes sense when you consider the relative risks of violent victimization of each group.

The political breakdown surprises me a bit, but from a pro-2A perspective I consider it a mild positive. It seems like a good thing for the long-term health of the RKBA if people of all political persuasions value having the means to defend themselves. (This point is somewhat mitigated by the reflexive hostility so many blue states continue to show to private gun owners. Individual leftists may value the right to defense themselves, but it does not seem to be filtering up to the policymaking elite.)

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Dr. John Lott appeared on KNRS’s Gun Radio Utah to discuss his new op-ed at The Federalist titled “New Jersey Uses Glock Lawsuit To Build The Gun Registry that Would then Immediately be Used to Confiscate Guns Politicians Always Denied Wanting.” Democrats are now using a background-check system that wrongly denies more than 99 percent of blocked gun purchases to help build a gun registry to facilitate confiscation. Those errors overwhelmingly burden law-abiding black and Hispanic men, who are disproportionately caught in mistaken denials despite having committed no disqualifying offense.
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Anthony Albanese’s pledge to hold the biggest gun buyback since the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre is in tatters, with the central reform announced just days after the Bondi mass shooting stricken by opposition from states and territories, as well as growing angst from Labor MPs fearing a One Nation fight in the future.
Progress on the key plank of reform has stagnated as jurisdictions follow one another in pulling out of the scheme, headlined by Victoria’s Labor government confirming they wouldn’t be involved last month.
The Australian understands the buyback has also barely been mentioned in federal Labor’s caucus in recent months, with the rise of One Nation over the first half of 2026 triggering concerns within the party that a buyback could hurt Labor MPs in regional seats across the nation.
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Dr. John Lott talked to John Hines on One America News about the New Jersey Attorney General’s lawsuit against Federal Firearms Licensees statewide, demanding records on every lawful sale of GLOCK pistols to New Jersey residents over the last decade. They also discussed other gun control laws. See also Dr. Lott’s new op-ed at The Federalist titled “New Jersey Uses Glock Lawsuit To Build The Gun Registry that Would then Immediately be Used to Confiscate Guns Politicians Always Denied Wanting.
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Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations.
Alessandra Coote was walking on a trail with her 2-year-old daughter and dog two-and-a-half years ago when a man began yelling at her and threatened to kill her dog. When the petite single mom made it back to her Utah home, she decided she needed a firearm for protection.
A few months later, while living in what she described as a “shady part of town,” a homeless man threatened her. After that encounter, she began regularly carrying a firearm under Utah’s Constitutional Carry law.

Coote, who just graduated this spring from the University of Utah, says carrying the gun has given her the confidence to feel safe in public. “It’s been life-changing,” she told RealClearInvestigations. Although she has never had to draw or fire the weapon, she has faced a threatening individual when she was armed, but stopped the attack by merely letting the man know she was carrying.
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Gun Safety: Violent Crime Drops as More Americans Pack Heat | RealClearInvestigations
#2a #guns #crime #concealedcarry https://t.co/jg2plWyZJD

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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 Federalist titled “New Jersey Uses Glock Lawsuit To Build The Gun Registry that Would then Immediately be Used to Confiscate Guns Politicians Always Denied Wanting.
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Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin about the recent juvenile shooting spree in Austin, Texas, and the mosque shooting in San Diego, California.
Vicki’s show covers most of Wisconsin and part of the Minneapolis area in Minnesota (WISN, WIBA, WMEQ).
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