The Washington Times has a long article on our research on the FBI Active Shooting reports missing cases where civilians stop attacks (see also here). This was also picked up in the Daily Journal on March 26, 2023. The article is as follows: Mercedes Perez crashed her...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AYqQBnB_0s The local Fox station in DC picked up the story from its coverage by Fox News. Murders in the U.S. are becoming increasingly concentrated in densely populated urban centers in just a handful of counties, according to a newly...
While most of the testimony presented Thursday was in favor of the 11-bill package, Nikki Goeser spoke out again the addition of new laws. Goeser’s husband was shot and killed in front of her in April 2009. “There are currently involuntary commitment laws that already...
In his Feb. 5 Fact Checker column, “What’s more common: A ‘good guy’ without a gun or a ‘good guy’ with one?,” Glenn Kessler made a great case for the FBI to include all incidents of active shooters stopped or curtailed by good Samaritans, armed or not. . . . Perhaps...
. . . There are currently 25 states with constitutional carry. When there were only 13–Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming–the Crime Prevention Research Center...
As law enforcement has broken down in many parts of the United States, gun sales and concealed handgun permits increased so that people can go and protect themselves. The problem is that many of those who have supported District Attorneys who won't prosecute violent...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjhaTfb1wXo Dr. John Lott talked to WBAL TV (Channel 11) in Baltimore about a bill creating gun-free zones in the state. Lott was also interviewed by the Maryland Reporter shown below. ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Hundreds of people signed up to...
“Does Biden talk to police to see why they do what they do? Biden doesn’t understand policing,” John Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, said Monday. “If he wants to increase retention, don’t immediately release criminals &...
The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler has a long discussion about our research on the FBI's Active Shooting cases. One benefit from Kessler's piece is that he was actually able to get the Texas State University people to respond to two of the cases that we provided. Dr....
Greg Wehner, "New Jersey governor signs new gun law, drawing lawsuit from the NRA," Fox News, December 22, 2022. . . . Americans have frequently used legal guns to thwart crimes, defend themselves or their homes and even stop mass shootings. Some estimates...
From The Washington Times. Homicide rates have spiked, but most of America has remained untouched. Only a tiny fraction of U.S. counties account for nearly all of the country’s homicides, according to research released Tuesday that showed a striking concentration...
A recent study conducted by the Crime Prevention Research Center found there were 22 times more attacks against pro-life groups since the leak in early May of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade compared to attacks on pro-choice organizations. A...