Referring to the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl Rally, “This appeared to be a dispute between several people that ended in gunfire," said Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves. Two juveniles are the main suspects who were detained. The attack was not...
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The Highest Income People and Those Who Went to Graduate School are the Least Concerned About Crime
By a 4.7-to-1 margin, a new 2024 Rasmussen Reports survey finds that more likely voters say violent crime in the United States is getting worse (61%) than getting better (13%). Eighty-one percent (81%) of likely voters say the issue of crime will be important in this...
Major credit card companies start using merchant code for firearm and ammunition retailers to comply with a new California law to supposedly identify suspicious gun purchases. Will this really work? No.
Major credit card companies are moving to make a merchant code available for firearm and ammunition retailers in order to comply with a new California law that will allow banks to potentially track suspicious gun purchases and report them to law enforcement, CBS News...
At the Washington Times: Insurrectionists and the Bloomberg School of Public Health: Report shows how out of touch left-wing academics are
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times. According to the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, the threat of an armed insurrection is so pressing that we must quickly enact wide-ranging gun control measures. Its new report...
At Townhall: Jennifer Crumbley Shouldn’t Have Been Convicted
Here is Dr. John Lott's latest piece at Townhall. Jennifer Crumbley was found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter after her son shot four students dead on November 30, 2021. She will face sentencing on April 9, and her husband will now face the same...
Hawaii Supreme Court Claims the Supreme Court’s Bruen and Heller Decisions were Incorrectly Decided
We reject Wilson’s constitutional challenges. Conventional interpretive modalities and Hawaiʻi’s historical tradition of firearm regulation rule out an individual right to keep and bear arms under the Hawaiʻi Constitution. In Hawaiʻi, there is no state constitutional...
Ann Coulter interviews John Lott about the Mass Public Shootings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwptaNqVmVI Coulter: I am very excited to have again the man who has probably saved more lives in America than any other single person, John Lott, author of "More Guns, Less Crime." . . . Man you are good . . . You know it is because of...
The Washington Times’ Extensive Discussion of Our Research on Mass Public Shooters.
Stephen Dinan has a new article that extensively discusses our recent research on Mass Public Shooters. While we greatly appreciate the piece, there are a couple points that could be clearer. . -- Our definition of mass public shootings is not arbitrary. As we note in...
Did Tennessee’s 2016 Law that Allowed People to Store Guns in Vehicles Increase the Number of Stolen Guns?
Here is the claim from News Channel 5 in Nashville. . . . it was dubbed the "guns in trunks" bill. That law specified that the firearm needed to be "kept from ordinary observation and locked within the trunk, glove box, or interior of the person's motor vehicle or a...
On Cam & Company: Nikki Goeser’s on a Mission to Save Stalking Victims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps7dCujldDU Nikki Goeser, the executive director of the Crime Prevention Research Center, joins Cam Edwards to discuss her opinion piece on the importance of self-defense for victims of stalking and how anti-2A policies like "gun-free...
UPDATE: With all the concern about assault weapons, how has the share of murders with rifles changed over time?
August 12, 2023 With all the concern about assault weapons since the federal ban sunset in 2004, it is interesting to see what a small share of murders are committed with any type of rifle and how even that share has fallen over time. The percentage of firearm murders...
Testimony before the Vermont State Senate on banning “Ghost Guns” (Senate Bill 209)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RD2IeWLBPE Dr. John Lott testified before the Vermont State Senate on banning "Ghost Guns" on January 31, 2024 (Senate Bill 209). A copy of Lott's written testimony is available here.











