Cain, a staunch conservative who is entering his fourth term in the Texas House, said he opposes the State Fair's gun ban because he thinks "gun-free zones are ineffective." He cited the fact that many "mass public shootings" have occurred in places where firearms are...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKUzYVzWSrI 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...
In the first poll, by McLaughlin & Associates (commissioned by John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center), only 19 percent (fewer than one in five voters) favored passing more gun control laws. A comforting and reassuring 54 percent said having the police...
Brianna Robinson, who has about 83,000 followers, has a post using some of our research.
Cleveland isn't the only city that has been accused of under reporting crime rates. Chicago and Philadelphia has faced similar claims in the past. Since 2013, the department submitted 1.9 million case reports to OIBRS. About 119,000 criminal offenses weren't...
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...