There were 46 shooting attacks at K-12 schools where there were school resource officers or other types of law enforcement officers (45 cases from 2000 through 2025). Thirty-nine of the cases involve casualties other than the attacker. In those 39 cases, there was on...
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...
Given how incredibly rare it is for the New York Times to give positive news coverage to a civilian who stopped a mass public shooting (and these occur all the time without getting news coverage), you have to give them credit when they do cover such a story. . Jordan...
Transcript of those two clips by Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson: I see millions of Americans being destroyed and none of it is at the hands of radical Islam. Is radical Islam more dangerous than only fans? It's not even close. Tucker: Sharia law is bad, Seth. I don't...
Nine people were murdered and 25 injured in a school shooting in western Canada. "At least two other people were hospitalized with serious or life-threatening wounds." A man identified as the suspect's uncle, Russell G. Strang, confirmed to outlets like the New York...
Many graphs using the data are shown at the end of the post. Each time a public shooting draws national attention, particularly at places such as schools or churches, politicians and the media often respond by citing figures that claim the United States suffers...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. The graphs for the changes in firearm and total homicides as well as for firearm and total suicides are provided at the end of this piece. . Democrats in the United States repeatedly praise Australia’s 1996 gun...
Yesterday we saw mass shootings in Australia where 15 were murdered and at Brown University where two were murdered. Both occurred in places with strict gun control (the rules for Brown are available here). The problem is that uniformed law enforcement have an...
News reports indicate that so far four people have been identified as killed, though one of those was the attacker. This clearly appears to be yet another mass shooting in a place where civilians were banned from having guns. Michigan state law bans people carrying...
According to court opinions, competency rulings, law-enforcement releases, or mainstream reporting that cites those records, seven U.S. mass public shooters since 1998 had a documented diagnosis of schizophrenia -- 0.26 cases per year. There was one other case where...
Our recent discussion on this issue in the WSJ is available here.
Updated August 27, 2025: You would think the empirical evidence would be overwhelming at some point. When the Aurora, Colorado Batman movie theater shooter attacked, seven movie theaters were showing "The Dark Knight Rises" on July 20th within 20 minutes of the...