Data: For convenience, a PDF of the Excel file is also available here and a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories. FBI Active Shooting reports are available here (2000-2013), here (2014-2015), here (2016-2017), here (2018), here (2019), here...
The list of active shooting cases that were averted by people legally carrying guns that were missed in the FBI Active Shooting reports. Our original write-up on this problem is available here. Specifically, just those cases where just mass public shootings were...
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Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Federalist. . Gun control advocates keep telling us that there is 90-plus percent support in polls for expanded background checks, but the support is much less solid than the media and gun control advocates would have you...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. It was also published at Florida, Daily, Zero Hedge, and Leon News. . After several road rage cases claimed the lives of children this summer, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham suspended the open and...
Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) have a new piece at Newsweek. . President Joe Biden keeps telling Americans that the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), the gun control bill he signed last year, is the most significant gun control legislative...
The CPRC's Director of Education, Kerry Slone, has her first op-ed at the Washington Times. The argument that gun control affects only law-abiding citizens has been at the core of debate for over 100 years. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s recent action...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics about our newest report on errors in the FBI Active Shooting Reports. Also published in The Daily Signal, Zero Hedge, Political Insider, Georgia Star News, Millennial Press, and the Truth About Guns. . Americans are...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist on the lawsuit filed by Michael Bloomberg's Everytown. . The lessons from the Buffalo shooting are right in the killer’s manifesto, but gun-control groups like Everytown don’t care. . The Biden administration has already...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Townhall. . On Saturday, President Biden tweeted his support for an assault weapons ban, for safe storage requirements, for holding gun manufacturers liable for gun crimes, and for enacting universal background checks....
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall. . The Biden administration apparently thinks that young archers are a real threat to safety. And, of course, getting rid of hunter safety classes for high school students must be an obvious way to improve safety. The Biden...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RJrqey0d3I We will soon put up the video from the talk. A copy of the PowerPoint is available here, but the slides are also shown below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P18cWjoCARQ Dr. John Lott spoke at the Brazil SHOT Fair in Jonesville on August 4, 2023. He focused on the changes in gun control in Brazil, and the bet that he offered with various gun control-supporting academics. Some discussion is...
https://youtu.be/KRsUiToGobs Dr. John Lott discussed the problems with the Red Flag laws and other gun control policies that are being discussed in Michigan at the 2023 Livingston County Lincoln Day Dinner. (Thursday, July 27, 2023)
Dr. John Lott talked to Jeff Crouere on New Orleans’ WGSO about Hunter Biden being indicted on three charges related to a firearm purchase in 2018. (Monday, September 18, 2023, from 11:50 to 11:58 AM ET)
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Cunningham on his national Sunday radio show about his recent piece at Real Clear Politics on the New Mexico Governor suspending the open and concealed carry of firearms in Albuquerque. They also discussed the gun charges filed...
Dr. John Lott talked to Vince Coglianese on WMAL about Hunter Biden being indicted on two counts of knowingly making a false or fictitious statement when purchasing a gun and one count of knowingly possessing that firearm. (Thursday, September 14, 2023)
Fagan argues we must reduce the supply of firearms, not the supply of black market guns or guns in criminal hands, but guns in general. As we have pointed out many times, if such a claim was correct, that guns on net are bad, murder rates should fall whenever all guns...
"Wonder Woman 1984" was released on December 25, 2020, and it has a standard line in so many television and movies where characters say that they hate guns.
The system is facing "massive wait times." One has to wonder if gun control advocates view this as a positive part of the law. In New York, background checks are now required to buy ammunition, and background check requests will go through the state police instead of...