Unfortunately, after a mass public shooting in a gun-free zone, members of the Virginia Beach City Council want to make sure that there are even more gun-free zones. However, not all municipalities in that direction. A commissioner in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee has...
Dr. John Lott discusses the real vulnerability of the Virginia Beach Municipal Building being a gun-free zone for employees and how that made all employees easy targets for the shooter. Also discussed are gun-control proposals such as banning so-called "silencers"...
San Antonio, June 7, 2019 (KSAT ABC 12) A 48-year-old man who was shot in the chest by his on-again, off-again girlfriend has died from his injuries, San Antonio police said. Police also said they found the woman, in her late 50s, with her tooth knocked out. They...
The Shield has a segment where a young girl turns in her family's gun without the knowledge of their knowledge. Regarding the gun, she tells the police officers: "I don't like it." The segment also plays on parents fears because this young girl was able to get a hold...
Dr. John Lott joined Tron Simpson to talk about the biased media coverage of the Virginia Beach attack and mass public shootings generally. (Sunday, March 4, 2018, from 12:20 to 12:50 PM)
Dr. John Lott talked to Pat Miller on the giant 50,000-watt WOWO AM about the impact of gun control on poor blacks. (Friday, June 14, 2019, from 5:05 to 5:20 PM)
An armed citizen and his companions came to the aid of a female police officer who had just been shot with her own gun. She was escorting an inmate to a mental health evaluation when he made a struggle for the firearm. The Missouri Highway Patrol reports...
Dr. Lott talks with host Lars Larson on both his Northwest and national radio shows about the Virginia Beach Shooting and how one female employee was so concerned about a fellow employee, she wanted to carry a concealed gun at work for her safety. However, there was...
Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) have a new piece up at Fox News on the dangers of gun-free zones. Unfortunately, the Virginia Beach City Council is moving in the exact opposite way and wanting to ban guns in city buildings. Does anyone there realize...
Many politicians and gun control advocates say if more guns mean fewer mass public shootings, the United States should be the safest place in the world. Indeed, the US has relatively few mass public shootings compared to the rest of the world, but we would have even...
Dr. John Lott joined Sebastian Gorka on America First to talk about what the media keep secret about mass public shootings, namely that they keep on occurring in gun-free zones. 98% of mass public shootings occur in gun-free zones, where victims are completely...
George Parry, a former federal and state prosecutor, had a piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer on June 5th, where he relied heavily on our research. We have added notes below where the links that were provided were to the Crime Prevention Research Center, though even...