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

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Tracey Wilson: Liberal ‘fear porn’ about a U.S. invasion is a fantasy while Ottawa disarms its own gun owners On Tuesday’s episode of The @EzraLevant Show, @TWilsonOttawa of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights (CCFR) joined Ezra via Zoom to react to a Globe and Mail opinion piece urging Canadians to “think about nonviolent resistance” in the event of a hypothetical American invasion. Ezra said the piece, written by Richard Sandbrook, an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Toronto and vice president of Science for Peace, treats an invasion as a real possibility. He called it “fantasy on top of fantasy on top of fantasy.” He also pointed out that Prime Minister Mark Carney was the one who started talking about the Canadian Armed Forces making plans for such an eventuality, and that Carney told the New York Times before he told Canadians. Tracey did not mince words. “It’s pure liberal boomer fear porn. That’s what it is. And it’s actually embarrassing,” she said. Tracey pointed to a National Post piece in which retired Vice Admiral Mark Norman said the Canadian Armed Forces have basically been left to rot. “And he’s not overstating that,” she said, adding that suggesting Canada could defend itself against an American invasion “is ridiculous. Thankfully, that is not going to happen.” She said Carney began his campaign with “a lot of fear porn about the Americans and an invasion,” encouraging Canadians to hate their neighbours to the south despite a long friendship and partnership. “It’s unhelpful. It’s unhealthy. Trump won’t be there forever,” she said. “And at some point, he’s going to have to stand on his own two legs and tell us why he’s created this kind of division in this country.” Ezra also read the Globe and Mail’s own description of nonviolent defence as “a strategy of deterrence and resistance in which unarmed civilians play a major role, either alone or in coordination with the armed forces.” He noted that the article never actually explains what that would look like in practice. For Tracey, the contradiction is the point. “This is the same government that is spending billions of your tax dollars confiscating legally acquired firearms from licensed, vetted, RCMP-tested and trained gun owners and not investing that money in our military,” she said. “You can’t disarm your population. And at the same time, you use fear porn about an American invasion that is literally a fantasy in the minds of the liberal talking heads in Ottawa.” Ezra and Tracey also discussed the state of the military. Ezra said Canada’s forces are underfunded, under-equipped, demoralized and underpaid, and that the aging CF-18s would be like “a Datsun driving alongside a Ferrari” next to an F-35. He said Canada’s participation in the Maple Flag exercise in northern Alberta has been cancelled. The conversation then turned to the attempted attack on a synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, on Yom Kippur. Ezra said the gunman, Sean Ward, turned out to be a Canadian military veteran who arrived with enough guns and ammunition to kill everyone inside, and that a police officer outside was wounded in a shootout but stopped what could have been a massacre. Ezra cited a Globe and Mail headline reporting that the shooter did not have a gun licence. Tracey said that detail proves the Liberal approach is aimed at the wrong people. “He completely evaded any detection because he just simply didn’t go get a firearms license. He acquired his guns illegally, like many other madmen in our country,” she said. She added that none of the measures brought in since 2015 would have stopped that crime, and gave credit to law enforcement for saving lives that day. “It just goes to show we are 100% focusing on the wrong people.” She said the Liberals’ 11-year record on public safety has been “a tragic and bloody failure,” and that it will continue until Carney changes course. She also tied the issue to the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting, which she said was the catalyst for the Trudeau-era gun bans even though the killer worked completely outside the licensing system. Ezra brought up U.S. scholar Dr. John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime, who argues from a purely pragmatic standpoint that mass shooters are generally only stopped when someone with a firearm arrives. Ezra said that is why he sees an argument for private firearms ownership, noting that in Israel and the United States armed bystanders have stopped attackers before police arrived. Tracey agreed, pointing to chat records that came out last week involving the Tumbler Ridge shooter. She said the killer indicated that the only things he worried might stop him were law enforcement or someone else with a firearm. “You can live in a unicorn and rainbow world where you say, no guns, never,” she said. “You can’t put that genie back in the bottle.” “It’s my opinion that the best thing we can do is give people the means, the opportunity and the training to protect themselves and those that they care about,” Tracey concluded.
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Dr. John Lott talked to Frank Miniter on the Armed Citizen Podcast about how firearm statistics are manipulated by gun-control activists. #CPRC #Crimepreventionresearchcenter crimeresearch.org/2026/10/on…
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This fake pollster that was included in the polling averages for the NYT & Nate Silver consistently showed Democrats ahead in Senate races. You remove their surveys & Democrats’ leads in the averages shrink. The Michigan poll had El-Sayed up by 6 points, so it makes a difference
🚨 "Wedgewood Polls" just announced it was a FAKE POLLSTER and was listed in outlets like the NYT and MSNOW Their "polls": 🔵 Texas: Talarico+2 🔵 Ohio: Brown+4 🔵 Michigan: El Sayed+6 🔵 Kansas: Hamilton+2 🔵 Maine: Jackson+4 This is INSANE.
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The errors that had been allowed in the Social Security data are incredible. Dates of death not included for 17 million people?!?! Millions of Social Security numbers not properly assigned to the right people? How much fraud was being allowed?
BREAKING: The Social Security Administration confirms to @FoxNews that it has just undertaken its largest cleanup of Social Security Numbers in the agency's 91-year history, correcting nearly 15% of all U.S. citizen SSNs (roughly 50 million out of 330 million). The changes include: - Adding 17 million dates of death to files that previously didn't have them w/ help from State Dept. - With help from DHS, updating 25 million files that had missing citizenship information. - Correcting an additional 8.5 million records with inaccurate citizenship data. SSNs are referenced by agencies across the federal government and in states to validate identities and prevent improper payment of tax dollars. SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION STATEMENT TO FOX:
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COVID Was Just A Warm-Up For Biden’s ‘Censorship-Industrial Complex’ U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s policy adviser, Daniel Tartakovsky, suggested that the administration's efforts should reach considerably further than COVID. "May be worth emphasizing that you don’t just see this as a COVID-related issue (i.e., it’s health and medical misinformation, not just COVID-related misinformation). More broadly, it gets at the issue of how social media impacts people, especially young people." dailycaller.com/2026/10/19/e… #censorship #COVID
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France has FREE health care, paid parental leave, paid family leave, FREE child care, FREE preschool, 5 weeks paid vacation, a 35 hour work week, generous unemployment and housing benefits, and heavily subsidized higher education. Everything the left says they want AND THEY'RE STILL PROTESTING AND BURNING SHIT DOWN.
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The future if politicians such as @jamestalarico, @SenSherrodBrown, and @AbdulElSayed are elected?
Heartbreaking 💔 Copenhagen climate politicians push elderly in retirement homes onto minimal meat to cut CO₂ Birthday wishes for beef are sometimes rejected “for the CO₂ accounts” Residents pay for the food but often get organic vegetarian instead of what they want archive.ph/wo9OV Guidelines (p.45): max 500g meat/week, max 80g beef/veal/lamb (~one kid’s burger/week) maaltider.kk.dk/sites/defaul…
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You have to believe that the destructive riots in France will increase the odds of a Le Pen win in next year’s election.
France, Elabe poll: Presidential run-off election Le Pen (RN-PfE): 52.5% Philippe (HOR-RE): 47.5% Le Pen (RN-PfE): 53.5% (-3.5) Glucksmann (PS/PP-S&D): 46.5% (+3.5) Le Pen (RN-PfE): 69% (-0.5) Mélenchon (LFI-LEFT): 31% (+0.5) +/- vs. 26-28 August 2026 Fieldwork: 14-16 October 2026 Sample size: 1,701 ➤ europeelects.eu/2026/06/02/p…
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John R Lott Jr. retweeted
Another bogus claim by the @AP, @JimVertuno "Few mass shootings in the U.S. end like the deadly attack on an Oregon elementary school: with an armed civilian opening fire on the gunman." koin.com/news/national/ap-or… WRONG. The media won't cover them, but there are lots of mass public shootings stopped by legally armed citizens. crimeresearch.org/2023/06/ub… Lots of active shootings stopped. crimeresearch.org/2026/09/ma…
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Sanders Calls Trump the Most Dangerous President in History Rhetoric like this ought to discourage any political violence, right? But what is interesting is the incredibly enthusiastic applause that Senator Bernie Sanders gets from the press core. piped.video/dMKhTqtVnKQ?is=3VUk…
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These threats are crazy. The prosecuted Flavio Bolsonaro's father and are not threatening to do the same to Flavio.
🚨 JUST IN: In a stunning moment, socialist Brazil President Lula THREATENS right-wing Flavio Bolsonaro on TV with a LEGAL PERSECUTION if he wins This is enraging. LULA: "On the 25th, you're gonna LOSE your immunity. GET READY...you're going to have problems. Your life is going to have a lot of investigations!" 😡 Bolsonaro clapped back, calling him CORRUPT and he's spot-on 💯 If he loses, he loses his congressional protections, and Lula just told him on live TV what comes next. They want to go after him like his father! Back in April, Alexandre de Moraes also opened an inquiry into Flavio for "calumny" against Lula over an X post His father is already in prison, his brother Eduardo is in the U.S., and now the sitting president is promising more investigations for the son! VOTE FOR BOLSONARO AND END THE MADNESS
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I set some fake news straight on @60Minutes tonight, though as usual they edit out 95% of the answers.
I sat down with @60minutes to discuss the administration’s efforts to protect the integrity of the upcoming general election. No matter what happens, we @CivilRights Division will enforce federal laws VRA, HAVA, and NVRA, to ensure every citizen’s vote counts!
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Is this really what people want if they give control of Congress and the Senate to Democrats? The amazing thing is how open the Democrats are to weaponizing government against their political opponents.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D., Mich.) just gave an interview where she said the quiet part out loud. She intends to unleash a slew of investigations to deter young people from even considering supporting the Administration … if they know what is good for them. jonathanturley.org/2026/10/1…
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How anti-gun was the school district? "This prohibition includes those who may otherwise be permitted by law to carry such weapons" "Thank God for Kaylub Giamanco. Countless lives were saved only because they were lucky enough to be protected by someone who was in the right place at the right time" wsj.com/opinion/good-guy-wit… #2a @FreemanWSJ
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"More Guns Less Crime." - John Lott
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More Guns, Less Crime, by John Lott. I suggest people who fear guns read it.
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If your question is sincere, be brave and give this book a read, full of STATISTICAL ANALYSES of ACTUAL STATISTICAL RESULTS of various laws and policies in various regions. amazon.com/More-Guns-Less-Cr…
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Democrats support censorship of ideas that they think are bad. But the problem is the "bad" ideas are defined as the ones they disagree with.
Democrats want to imprison their political enemies to deter young conservatives. They also want to regulate social media so people are less likely to support candidates they don’t like. Chris Murphy: "Regulating the internet…should be an important government project." "if people are feeling more powerful and less lonely, then they are going to be less likely to fall for a bullsht demagogue like Donald Trump." From the so-called “anti-authoritarian” party.
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