Virginia Democrat Attorney General Candidate Jay Jones has gotten donations and endorsements from all the gun control groups from Everytown, Brady Campaign, and Giffords. Michael Bloomberg's Everytown and the Brady Campaign have removed their statements supporting...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall on the race to be the top law enforcement officer in Virginia. . Democratic Virginia Attorney General nominee Jay Jones has faced sharp backlash after saying he wanted a Republican murdered and wished death on the Republican’s...
The Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard has a write up on our new research showing the errors in the FBI's active shooting reports. . Americans packing heat have stopped active shootings at least 10 times more than the FBI has counted, showing that life-saving...
Vince Coglianese discussed our research on his national show, "The Vince Show." Our list of what police say would have been mass public shootings that were stopped by concealed handgun permit holders is available here. (Wednesday, September 24, 2025)
Dr. John Lott again addressed the Monday Meeting in New York City (some old appearances here and here). He discussed then recent crimes at the school in Minneapolis, the stabbing in Charlotte, and Charlie Kirk's assassination. Part of the talk is related to Lott's...
Dr. John Lott has a new investigative piece based on our research at Real Clear Investigations. It was also published at Zero Hedge, Tennessee Star, and World Net Daily. Our detailed data is available here. This article builds on our research report available here and...
John R. Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and former senior adviser for research and statistics in the Office of Justice Programs and the Office of Legal Policy at the Justice Department, told Blaze News about another disheartening...
Data: For convenience, the Excel file is available here, as well as a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories. We also show cases that the FBI missed of both armed and unarmed civilians stopping active shooting attacks. FBI Active...
News reports indicate that so far four people have been identified as killed, though one of those was the attacker. This clearly appears to be yet another mass shooting in a place where civilians were banned from having guns. Michigan state law bans people carrying...
The list of active shooting cases that were averted by people legally carrying guns, and were missed in the FBI Active Shooting reports. The FBI's definition of active shootings is narrow: it involves cases where a gun is fired in public and not part of some other...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03UvSV9oWJg Television show bias against guns is never-ending. You won’t see an entertainment television show that has a civilian successfully using a gun defensively. Instead, something always seems to go wrong when guns are used...
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