And so, the usual cycle plays out: armed civilian stops active shooter, media steps in (if it even reports it at all) to remind us that the "good guy with a gun" is a myth. Is it, though? CNN cites ALERRT, which provides the FBI with its data. According to these...
CPRC Fellow Amanda Collins talked to Alan Stock on Las Vegas’ giant KXNT-AM about her op-ed piece at the Townhall titled “My Take On the Horrific UNLV Shooting” about the recent University of Nevada shooting in a gun-free zone. (Monday, December 11, 2023)
Bloomberg's Everytown joins Shannon Watts and Moms Demand in blocking the Crime Prevention Research Center on Twitter. Among that Everytown found too troublesome are shown here.
According to PEW Research 46% of American voters in November 2020 voted by absentee or mail-in ballots (58% of Democrats and 32% of Republicans). A new Rasmussen survey has 30% of American voters claiming they voted by absentee or mail-in ballots in that election (36%...
Amanda Collins Johnson, a fellow at the Crime Prevention Research Center, has her first op-ed piece at Townhall. Amanda's new book is titled: “Beyond Survival: Reclaiming My Life After I Survived Rape.” As I heard the news about a mass shooting at the University of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6giMx7vf7mY Dr. John Lott talked to former US Navy SEAL Jeff L. Gonzales is a nationally recognized weapons and tactics instructor with over thirty years of real-world experience. On this weeks episode of the BPW podcast; we have one of...
Fox News interviewed Dr. John Lott extensively regarding an exchange between Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) and Yale School of Public Health Dean Megan Ranney. . Democrats have long claimed red states are more dangerous than blue states . A Republican senator and Yale...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Hill newspaper. Unfortunately, the editors made changes in my piece without my permission. The changed my statement of 94% of mass public shootings occurring in gun-free zones to an "enormous amount." There were other similar...
Our latest annual report on concealed handgun permits got prominent coverage in the Washington Times. More than half of the states now allow residents to carry concealed guns without a permit, leading to a sea change in gun habits, according to a study by the leading...
Fox News has a news story about our latest annual concealed carry permit report. FIRST ON FOX: The number of concealed carry permit holders in the U.S. dropped slightly this year, but the number of Americans carrying a concealed firearm has likely increased overall...
A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2022 are available here. Abstract Despite the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen affirming a...
Below is the post from the Independent Women's Forum. They also have the post there in Spanish. Gun control hurts women. You won’t hear that from professional anti-gun groups like Handgun Control, Inc. They are using women and manipulating the facts to get the...