Broome spoke the day after the Crime Prevention Research Center released a report saying about 73% of all murders in the U.S. took place in 5% of the nation’s counties. "Murder isn’t a nationwide problem," according to the study based on interpretation of the FBI’s...
We have been getting dozens of end-of-the-year thank you notes for the work that we do. Here are some of them. Because gun control advocates harrass donors, we have obscured the names of those who sent the notes.
The FBI and other Federal agencies have put pressure on American citizens to give up their right to own a gun. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is demanding that the committee investigate these claims. The Secret...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjBwk-9Yql8 Dr. John Lott testified before House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Uvalde Mass Shooting and Gun Violence. Committee chair Jerry Nadler claimed that John Lott said: "that there is no effective difference between an AR-15 and...
The Crime Prevention Research Center’s latest annual report on concealed handgun permits was covered extensively at the Washington Examiner today. The gun craze sparked by the 2016 presidential election, the COVID crisis, and the flurry...
A new study shows that the attitude of Americans toward red flag laws, where guns are taken away from citizens by a judge who determines they are a danger to themselves or others, dramatically changes from support to opposition when more detail is provided in the poll...
Who thinks the US is most likely headed in the right direction? A new Rasmussen Reports Survey of Likely Voters finds it is high-income liberal Democrats who went to graduate school. Are they the most isolated from everyday realities such as crime and inflation? These...
We have previously collected knife attacks from 2010 to early 2014. A series of stabbings at a First Nation community and in another nearby town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan left 10 people dead and 15 wounded, Canadian police said Sunday as they...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-INcpcdWZAE Here are videos of Senator Ted Cruz twice referencing Crime Prevention Research Center work: May 27th at the NRA annual convention and May 29th on the podcast The Verdict. The research that he is referencing can be found...
Cases like this just don't get national news. Here a man with "an extensive criminal history" started firing an "AR-15 style firearm" into a crowd. Fortunately, a woman who was legally carrying a gun was there to stop the attack. Police said a woman who was lawfully...
Frequently in the solution to these mass shootings is to simply spend more money on mental health.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiTIojp-Kuc Andrew Branca interviewed Dr. John Lott about gun control generally and the recent tragedy in Buffalo. Andrew Branca: "I have probably never said this before because it seems so implicit to me, but you are one of my personal...