Voice of America, March 16, 2018 Though the NRA has come on board, other gun rights advocates say treatment, not gun seizure, is the answer to dealing with gun owners who show signs of trouble. "If you really believe somebody is a danger to themselves or others, then...
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At The Hill: Good guys with guns save lives. Don’t believe the hype.
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Hill newspaper. Unfortunately, the editors made changes in my piece without my permission. The changed my statement of 94% of mass public shootings occurring in gun-free zones to an "enormous amount." There were other similar...
At the Washington Times: Second Amendment matters in a time of crisis: The importance of good guys with guns
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the Washington Times. By the way, there was a kibbutz where civilians were armed and they were able to hold of the terrorist attack. . Hamas attacked as Israelis were wrapping up the seven-day-long Jewish festival of Sukkot on...
Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports from 2014-2022 regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 4.6%, the correct number is at least 35.7%. In 2022, it is at least 41.3%. Excluding gun-free zones, it averaged over 63.5%.
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...
At Townhall: Uniformed School Resource Officers Aren’t the Solution to Stop Mass Public Shootings
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall.com. . With six murdered at the Covenant School in Nashville at the end of March, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee proposed over $200 million in new measures to protect schools and prevent more such attacks. One of his proposals is...
CPRC in the News: NewsMax, The Hill, New York Sun, Foundation for Economic Education, Red State, and much more
. . . Despite oodles of data showing that defensive gun uses (DGUs) occur quite frequently, the gun control crowd insists on deceptively claiming that these situations rarely arise, which means people should not have the right to keep and bear arms. But John Lott,...
At Real Clear Politics: Gun Control Laws Backfiring in California
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. The piece also appeared at Zero Hedge. . After the three public shootings over the last two weekends in California, Democrats are again clamoring for even more gun control laws. To California Gov. Gavin...
At Townhall: Will Phobias About AR-15s Keep Schools From Adopting This Innovative Product?
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. . Time is of the essence in mass public shootings. Civilians and police stop a lot of mass murders by carrying handguns, but sometimes you need a larger round than is available in a traditional handgun. It often simply isn’t...
Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 4.4%, the correct number is at least 34.4%. In 2021, it is at least 49.1%. Excluding gun-free zones, it averaged over 50%.
FBI ACTIVE SHOOTER DATABASE is available here for people who want to check all the casesDownload 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...
At the San Francisco Chronicle: Law-abiding gun owners being maligned
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle on the claims about what will happen when New York and California are forced to change their concealed carry laws. . In celebration of New York’s new gun control law taking effect on September 1, Democratic...
At Real Clear Politics: Law-Abiding Gun Owners Ignored by Media, Maligned by Politicians
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics about comments made last week by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams. It was also published in other places such as the Journal Courier (Jacksonville, Illinois). . In...
At Real Clear Investigations: How the FBI Undercounts Armed Citizen Responders to Mass Killers — and Media Play Along
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations about the large systematic errors in the FBI's count of armed civilians who have stopped what otherwise would have been mass public shootings. . The shooting that killed three people and injured another at a...