“These numbers pulled 80, 90 percent, sometimes 100 percent of the agents on duty away from the field. Border Patrol zones across Texas, Arizona, and California had no agent presence for...
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The Reported Violent Crime Continues to Plummet This Year: An estimated 18.4% drop in homicide in the first seven months of 2026 compared to the first seven months of 2025, rapes were down 10.6%, robberies down 16.7%, and aggravated assaults down 3.5%
Screenshot Comparing the number of murders in the first seven months of 2025 to the same time in 2026:FBI Crime Data Explorer Data Discovery ToolMonth20252026Coverage gap in 2026 in percent of the population covered in percentage pointsPercent Drop in Homicides...
Rebel News Mentioning Dr. John Lott’s More Guns, Less Crime Research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MiWs2JCvqc Ezra Levant: You know, Dr. John Lott is a US scholar who is, and it's interesting to, to talk to him because he doesn't make the argument from a moral point of view or from a constitutional point of view. He never argues...
More Television Police Show Bias on CBS’s Tracker: Criminals Using Machine Guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSyQ-G7Gc3w Television crime shows continue to portray frequent murders with machine guns. The Crime Prevention Research Center has repeatedly shown that these depictions are far from reality, yet many shows still suggest that...
CPRC in the News: Daily Caller, Red State, Hot Air, Rebel News, LarsLarson.com, and more
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) updated its webpage regarding firearm injury on Sept. 29 to correct verbiage that underestimated the frequency with which guns are used for self-defense. The CDC had restored information regarding studies of the use of...
On the Armed Citizen Podcast: Explaining how defensive use of firearm stats may be purposely manipulated by anti gunners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwO0gxedh28 Dr. John Lott talked to Frank Miniter on the Armed Citizen Podcast about how firearm statistics are manipulated by gun-control activists.
Child among 2 killed after vehicle drives onto soccer field at Kansas
Two people, including a child, were killed, and several others injured Saturday when a vehicle drove onto a soccer field at a sports complex in Wichita, Kansas. The driver, identified as a 34-year-old woman, was taken into custody following the incident...
Trump on the Oregon School attack stopped by Permit Holder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Atx8cZ5eI Transcript: Reporter: Have you been briefed on the school shooting in Oregon? Trump: I was. I was. Well, I'll tell you what, there was a great hero. And it could have been, as bad as it was, we had a great hero that went in...
Media Bias on Armed Civilians Stopping Mass Public Shootings, falsely claiming civilians rarely stop mass shootings
Two days after the Oregon attack, the Associated Press opened a story with a familiar claim: “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.” NPR noted: “how rarely an armed...
Gun Control Groups Brag about all the Great Gun Control Laws that Exist in Oregon
Gun control groups created a gun-free zone for this school. In recent years, Oregon has acted to strengthen its gun safety laws by enacting an extreme risk protection law, strengthening protections for victims of domestic violence, investing in community violence...
At The Washington Times: ‘Good guy with a gun’ phenomenon is no myth
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the Washington Times. . Censorship was a serious problem during the Biden administration. . President Trump has reversed some of the changes that President Biden made to information published by the...
School Shooting in Bend, Oregon Occurred in a School District that Banned Staff from carrying a Gun at School, Police report that a bystander shot and killed the murderer
The latest information indicates that three children and one adult were murdered at the Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. Two people are hospitalized. The suspect was shot and killed. Only 25 of the 197 school districts in Oregon ban staff from carrying...