The Supreme Court Weighs Whether Regular Marijuana Users Are Like “Habitual Drunkards;” Talks on Australia, Economics in Law; and the High Rate of Shootings by Transgender Individuals

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Crime Prevention Research Center Dear Diogenes: This was a big week for gun ownership at the Supreme Court with United States v. Hemani. Trying to follow the Bruendecision and identify similar historical laws, the government seriously argued that regular marijuana use is the modern equivalent of "habitual drunkards" at the Founding—people thought to lack self-control and therefore barred from possessing guns. That regularly taking sleep gummies constituted the same risk. My op-ed with Laura at Real Clear Politics goes through the arguments, and there is a reasonable chance this could be a real win for self-defense. But with all the news about the fighting in Iran, I wasn't able to break into the news cycle with it, but I am still very happy with this piece. Several recent talks are also now available. I spoke at a "salon"-style dinner in Sydney, Australia, where I gave a detailed hour-and-a-half presentation on Australia's crime and gun control laws and then took a long series of questions. I also debated the usefulness of economics in understanding law at the University of Houston Law School. Unfortunately, I only received permission to share my side of the debate, but I hope it is still of interest. Finally, I gave a talk in Washington, DC on election integrity that I thought turned out very well. I also wrote about our research on the high rate of active shootings and mass public shootings in a piece for The Federalist, which became the most-read article on their website for well over a day. I discussed in on Lars Larson's national radio show. and the Vicki McKenna Show covering Wisconsin. There were also several more interviews from my Australia trip. I appeared on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with Steve Austin—though the network unfortunately cut a 45-minute interview down to about twelve minutes by splicing together different answers. I also spoke with Australia's RCR Media about why fewer guns do not necessarily mean less crime, and I joined the Club Grubbery podcast. Other television and podcast appearances compared Obama's versus Trump's record on deportations and the national drop in homicides. I also appeared on Armed American Radio to discuss my experiences in Australia. Among interesting news is the continuing push by gun control advocates that don't want even police to have guns. There are also a couple of recent news stories about serious vote fraud with mail-in voting in California and absentee ballots in Alabama. Over the last couple of weeks, our research has gotten wide coverage at the New York Daily News, Fox News, Epoch Times, Washington Times, the Media Research Center, MSN, and much more. Our list of defensive gun uses by people legally carrying guns in public that got media attention illustrates 39 cases from May. If you haven't already seen it, please watch our new video with John Stossel, which covers our new research showing errors in the FBI's active shooting reports. For those who haven't already done so, if you would like to help us get the information out to others, please consider posting reviews of our website on the Google business page that we have set up. The more positive reviews people post, the more Google will feature our webpage in their searches. Thank you very much! We need help getting our research out. It doesn't do us any good to do all this work if people don't see it. If you have friends you think might find our emails interesting, please encourage them to sign up by sending them the link here. Thank you very much. Again, we need your support to continue doing the work that we do. I don't think that there is any organization with as small of a budget that regularly produces as much as we do. Thank you very much! . Research Transgender Shooters Commit Disproportionate Shares of Mass Public and Active Shooting Attacks—In 2024, at Least 12 Times Their Share of the Population Updated Detailed Information on Mass Public Shootings from 1998 to 2025 Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Continue to Lean Politically Left on Crime, Policing, and Gun Control Australians are dramatically more likely to be victims of violent crime than Americans . Op-eds At Real Clear Politics: From Whiskey to Weed: A Second Amendment Fight At The Federalist: The Real Rate Of Transgender Violence Is Much Worse Than The Media Wants To Admit . Recent Talks Talk at the University of Houston: The Role of Economics in Understanding Law Worth listening to:"Salon" style dinner-inclusive event at a private home in Sydney, Australia to discuss crime and gun control laws Talk to an Election Integrity Event in DC Talking to Australian University Students about crime rates, mass public shootings, and gun control Talk at Australia National University: Do Armed Civilians Stop Active Shooters More Effectively Than Uniformed Police? Talk in Brazil 2025 on How to Make People Safer PowerPoints from a Debate at the University of Connecticut Law School and a Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Talk in Buenos Aires – Mitos sobre el control de armas – Mas armas menos Crimen, English: Myths about gun control – More guns, less crime .  Television/Podcast interviews On The Tudor Dixon Podcast: Obama vs. Trump on Deportations, Crime & the Immigration Narrative On NTD Newsroom: To Discuss Falling Homicides in D.C. and Nationwide On Guns.com: To Discuss Guns, Carry, and Court Cases On The P.A.S. Report: To Discuss ICE Enforcement, Crime Statistics, and Media Myths On Club Grubbery: To Discuss Australia's Gun Laws, Violent Crime, and Defensive Gun Use . Radio interviews On Australia's RCR Media: Why Less Guns Doesn't Equal Less Crime On Brisbane Mornings with Steve Austin on Australian Broadcasting Corporation: To Discuss Australia's Gun Policy On the Lars Larson Show: To Discuss Shooting Crimes by Transgender Individuals On The Vicki McKenna Show: To Discuss the Pawtucket, Rhode Island Hockey Arena Shooting On Armed American Radio: To Discuss Dr. Lott's Trip to Australia . Media Coverage CPRC in the News: New York Daily News, Fox News, Epoch Times, Daily Record, PJ Media, and More CPRC in the News: The Washington Times, Media Research Center, Patriot Post, MSN, World Net Daily, and More . Amicus Brief Amicus Brief for the Supreme Court, Wolford et al v Lopez (Hawaii), on Gun-free Zones in Hawaii . Televisions/Movie Show Bias on Guns CBS's FBI Pushing the Claim that "Second Amendment Purists" are the Real Danger . Defensive Gun Uses Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 39 Cases During May 2025 Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 26 Cases During April 2025 Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 26 Cases During March 2025 Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 25 Cases During February 2025 . Other Testimony Dr. Lott's testimony Before the Wyoming state Senate Judiciary Committee on eliminating Gun-free Zones Testimony before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary on Gun Control . Other Gun Control Activists Once Again Argue for Disarming the Police, From Brady to Giffords to Moms Demand to The Trace Three Alabama women indicted on Absentee Vote Fraud, Last Fall there was another Absentee Vote Fraud Case Big Mail-in Vote Fraud: Lodi, California ex-councilman Shakir Khan sentenced for registering 23 voters to his home address, and used his personal email/phone to register 47 other people, 41 completed sealed mail-in ballots found in his home Data Breach in Canada Revealed the identities of 2.2 million gun owners: One of the dangers of a gun registration system   Crime Prevention Research Center 358 S 700 E, Ste B, B409, Salt Lake City, UT 84102 http://crimeresearch.org johnrlott@crimeresearch.org (484) 802-5373 Crime Prevention Research Center · 358 S 700 E Ste B, B409, Salt Lake City, UT 84102, United States This email was sent to johnmhames1.diogenes--light@blogger.com. To stop receiving emails, click here. You can also keep up with Dr. John R. 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