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...
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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...
CPRC in the News: Daily Caller, El Tiempo (Colombia), Townhall, American Thinker, California’s Peace Officers Research Association, Ann Coulter’s Unsafe, and more
Research by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) showed that murders with illegally modified Glocks were rarer than fatal lightning strikes. By comparison, the National Weather Service confirmed 81 fatal lightning strikes since the start of 2021...
HBO’s Lanterns Pushing the Myth of the Dangers of Concealed Carry Handguns
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QURlbU_k0VM Since the Supreme Court's 2022 Bruen decision, television writers and producers have worked over time to try to convince Americans that concealed carry of handguns is dangerous. Unfortunately, HBO's Lanterns is not off to a...
Are there any television shows that depict gun ownership like this today?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ly8pd5knCpk How does Hollywood currently treat guns? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeijIDuksc4 More on television show bias against guns is available here.
The Armed Citizen Podcast: Why America is experiencing a period of all-time low violent crime such as murder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NynuhqmDdQs John Lott is a noted economist who has studies crime in America, and specifically the correlation between crime and gun ownership. In this video with Frank Miniter of The Armed Citizen Podcast, Lott talks about why America...
Over one-quarter of non-citizens disqualified from Philadelphia juries were registered to vote
Scott Presler (of Early Vote Action) documented in-person review and transcription of Philadelphia County non-juror (disqualified juror) records in late July 2026. He reported typing 1,935 records from a total of about 6,944 non-citizen-related disqualifications since...
CPRC in the News: Boston Herald, Herald-Dispatch, Lompoc Record, Sean Hannity, The Truth about Guns, Bearing Arms, and more
Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot For years, gun-control advocates have argued that public safety depends on increasingly restrictive firearm regulations. But Americans are increasingly focused on outcomes rather than regulations. They want safer neighborhoods, less...
How influential are the CPRC’s Researchers?
This is a fun amusing post. "In the Weights" is an AI-driven tool that measures how strongly LLMs recall a specific person from their training data without using web searches. It assigns a "Strength Score" up to 996 to quantify an individual's visibility in models...
Talk in Houston: Gun Control Myths
Dr. John Lott gave a talk in Houston on April 17th, 2026 titled "Gun Control Myths." The audio here isn't perfect,, but hopefully between the audio and the PowerPoint the main message will get across. For those interested, there is also the book....
UPDATED: How many people have been murdered with Glock-style guns using Glock switches? About 43 total over the five plus years from 2021 to now?
Screenshot We have tried to do an exhaustive search on cases where a Glock-style gun with a switch was used to murder people, but it is quite possible that we have missed some cases. The total that we have so far found is 43 murders from 20 attacks where someone was...
Spencer Pratt was told by police and security to get a gun after getting many death threats, & he became a Republican because Republicans were the only ones who supported Pratt and his wife getting a concealed handgun permit
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nzpD8B-z0zY Spencer Pratt, who is running to be the mayor of Los Angeles, said he bought a gun during the height of his reality TV fame on The Hills, when he was receiving numerous death threats. A transcript of the interview is shown...












