Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. The piece also appeared in the Daily Signal, Zerohedge, and The Center Square. . A lot of people are moving out of California. Over the last two years, California has lost about 300,000 people. Major companies,...
While 19 children and two teachers were being murdered inside the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, police waited outside the school trying to decide what to do. Eventually it wasn't the police who entered, but a Border Patrol Tactical Unit. The murderer also...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYID6uDFZE On Fox News, a Buffalo resident makes this clear statement: “It’s ridiculous. Something has to change…If more people were armed—and knew what they were doing with a gun—because it’s not the gun. It’s the person with the gun...
Like the New Zealand and El Paso mass public shooters, the Buffalo mass public shooter had very similar views. He was an environmentalist who hated free trade and capitalists and a socialist. Like them he called himself a racial autonomist. The media of course keeps...
Spree Killer Manifesto 10 dead, 13 shot, in ‘hate crime and racially motived’ shooting at Buffalo grocery store, officials say The Buffalo murderer provides yet another example of a mass public shooter preferring gun-free zones as a target. Some of the other examples...
An attack with a bow and arrow in Norway left five people murdered and four wounded. These attacks in other countries get little attention. Norway has 1/61st the population of the United States. Police first received word of an attack in the town of Kongsberg,...
The news media and entertainment television keep pushing the notion that most mass public shootings are done by white supremacists. Who is a white supremacist is actually fairly difficult to determine because many of the classifications are based on solely whether the...
Entertainment television continually provides a false impression of those who commit mass public shootings and how they commit them. Show after show has mass public shootings involving machine guns, though that never happens. But another myth is that attacks are...
The killer's manifesto made a couple of things clear. He is a racist who identifies with the Christchurch shooter and says that they have the same views. The New Zealand killer was a socialist/environmentalist who supported gun control. The El Paso killer is also an...
Update Post: For our latest work comparing mass public shootings across countries, please click here and here. For those interested, Snopes.com has given this research below a "mixed" rating. For a discussion of Snopes.com's claims and our response see here. Updated...
Updated June 1, 2019: At some point, you would think that the empirical evidence would be overwhelming. When the Aurora, Colorado Batman movie theater shooter attacked, there were seven movie theaters showing "The Dark Knight Rises" on July 20th within 20 minutes of...