Dr. John Lott has a new investigative piece based on our research at Real Clear Investigations. It was also published at Zero Hedge, Tennessee Star, and World Net Daily. Our detailed data is available here. This article builds on our research report available here and...
Original Research
Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports from 2014-2024 regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 3.7%, the correct number is at least 36%. Excluding gun-free zones, it averaged over 52.5%. In 2024, it was 62.5%.
Data: For convenience, the Excel file is available here, as well as a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories. We also show cases that the FBI missed of both armed and unarmed civilians stopping active shooting attacks. FBI Active...
UPDATED: Cases that the FBI missed where legally armed citizens have stopped active shooter incidents, with checks by ChatGPT
The list of active shooting cases that were averted by people legally carrying guns, and were missed in the FBI Active Shooting reports. The FBI's definition of active shootings is narrow: it involves cases where a gun is fired in public and not part of some other...
UPDATE: The false narrative of white supremacists doing mass public shootings: Racial, Gender, Religious and Political views of these killers from 1998 through August 2025
Entertainment television repeatedly distorts the reality of mass public shootings—both who commits them and how they occur. Show after show depicts shooters wielding machine guns, even though that never happens. Another falsehood it pushes is the idea that white...
UPDATED: How mass killers pick out venues where their victims are sitting ducks
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...
UPDATED: D.C. Marks 13 Days Without a Homicide After Trump Takeover: What are the odds of that? 0.13% Based on 2024 Data. 0.23% Based on 2025’s First Seven Months. The lives being saved are almost all black.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZax0C1Obho UPDATE: The streak ended early on the 14th day, the morning of Tuesday, August 26, 2025, when 31-year-old Franck Foute Mohdjiom was fatally shot in the 300 block of Anacostia Rd SE. Original: The news report above is from...
2024 Data Shows D.C. Crime Soars Above States and Cities: Murder and Robbery Lead the Surge—Murder Rate 28% Higher Than the Worst Big City, 136% Higher Than the Worst State, and 434% Above the Average State.
Our original post using the FBI's 2023 crime data is available here for comparison. Whether compared to states—since Democrats want D.C. to become the 51st state—or to major cities, the district stands out for all the wrong reasons. Anyone who has been in a CVS or...
How Does D.C.’s Crime Rates Compare to the Rest of the U.S.? Comparing D.C. to the States and Puerto Rico? D.C.’s Crime Rate is Remarkably High. With Murder and Robbery being Particularly High. D.C.’s Murder Rate is 50% Higher than the Highest of the 20 Most Populous Cities.
UPDATE: We have now posted a similar comparison using the FBI's 2024 crime data available here. Original Post: Even Joe Scarborough on MSNBC on August 13th admits: Democrats will apparently privately say there is a crime problem in D.C. and that what Trump is doing...
Interracial Violent Crime. Blacks committed violent crime against whites 9.2 times more than the reverse. Blacks committed violent crime against Asians 88.9 times more than the reverse.
The video here starts with a sucker punch where the white man is hit from behind. The woman is knocked out cold when she is hit. Saturday morning's vicious attacks on several whites in Cincinnati by a group of blacks has resulted in five people being charged, though...
Battling Bias on X’s Grok: Dr. Lott finally gets Grok to Concede that it was Making a Lot of Erroneous claims about the Impact of Concealed Carry Laws and Gun Bans on Crime Rates
After initial posts by Grok responding to other user's questions on X on Friday, July 18, 2025, Dr. John Lott challenged Grok's gun control claims, starting on July 19th. This is one of the last posts, but it summarizes the outcome of major points of the debate. The...
UPDATED: Bryan Kohberger: Yet Another Mass Murderer Who Took a Plea Bargain to Avoid the Death Penalty: Who says that the death penalty isn’t a deterrence? A List of Prominent Cases
"While Life Imprisonment is tough, it's certainly better than receiving the Death Penalty," President Donald Trump wrote. Michael Ruiz, :Trump weighs in on Bryan Kohberger's plea deal ahead of crucial Idaho murders sentencing," Fox News, July 21, 2025. These cases...
CATO Again Pushes False Claim that Illegal Aliens Commit Crime at a Low Rate Based on Survey Data that Ignores that Many Criminal Illegals Never Serve Time in US Prisons or Serve Shortened Sentences and It Requires Illegals Self Identify as Illegal
The CATO Institute has long pushed for open borders, a stance that contrasts with the views of other libertarians like Milton Friedman, who argued that open immigration only works if the country doesn't have a large welfare system. In a new report, despite all the...











