Many graphs using the data are shown at the end of the post. When another shooting happens at a place such as a school or a mall, politicians and the media are apt to claim that many hundreds of mass shootings occur each year. “Over the last year since Uvalde, our...
UPDATE: The number murdered has now reached 14. Original Post: Yet another mass murder with a vehicle. It just makes it clear that terrorists can murder people in many different ways. Besides using the truck, the murderer reportedly made multiple IEDs. The attacker...
This piece by Dr. John Lott appeared in the Billings Gazette, Helena Independent Record, Missoulian, Montana Standard, and the Ravioli Republic, all in Montana. President Joe Biden has recently commuted death sentences to life sentences for 37 of the 40 men who are on...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHqQc-WtLww Unfortunately, television police shows always seem to have something go wrong with a concealed handgun permit holder, either being fatally shot by the criminal without stopping the...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Federalist with a deep dive into the numbers. . In testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, American Immigration Council (AIC) Senior Fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick remarked last week that mass deportations would...
By a two-to-one margin, Gallup finds that Americans believe that a gun in the home makes people safer. That is a big change from when the question was first asked in 2000 when Americans by a 51-to-35 percent margin thought that the opposite was true. . Currently, 64%...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y45-7-4Bs-M As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns...
new report based on data from the U.S. Department of Justice suggests that crimes committed by illegal migrants cost U.S. taxpayers at least $166.5 billion, and the severity of those crimes greatly exceeds that of typical American norms. The report was written...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9zESruhUbI There are some different estimates for the percentage of males who have felony convictions by race, but the relative ranking is clear, with black males having the highest rate among black males followed by Hispanic males....
Black Guns Matter founder Maj Toure noted that over 90 percent of mass shootings happen in “gun-free zones,” a figure that was revealed by John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center. . . . Jeff Charles, "Here They Go Again: Anti-Gunners Rush to...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO_NRejn6dU Given that Poland feels threatened by Russia, it makes sense to train children to learn to use guns. Shooting lessons were voluntary until three years ago, but now firearms lessons are compulsory for schoolchildren - even at...
Fox News' Audrey Conklin interviewed Dr. John Lott about Biden's commutation for murderers on death row. This interview was related to Lott's piece at Townhall titled: "Biden Commuting the Sentences of 37 Federal Death Row Inmates Ignores the Will of Most Americans."...