The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) estimates there were approximately 330,000 violent victimizations involving a firearm in 2021. That same year there were estimated 1.67 million defensive gun uses. That is defensive gun uses are 5.06 times more than...
Mass public shooters often explicitly plan their attacks to maximize news coverage. As shown at the bottom of this post, many explicitly state this goal in their manifestos and diaries. These killers also study and imitate previous attackers, including by choosing...
The Washington Post doesn't really want to give President Trump credit for the drop in crime in DC. Please look at the graph above and notice that there was a discrete change in August and September 2025 (and the change only started about half way through August on...
Just as murders overall are falling, the murders of police is also declining the last couple of years, and the drop for police last year is about as large as the 20% drop in overall murders last year. The 53 officers murdered in 2025 is the lowest total since 2020. It...
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...
A widely cited February 2024 report by Politifact claimed: "No evidence of rising LGBTQ+ violent extremism or 'trans terrorism." A follow up report by Politifact in September 2025 examined both the FBI's definition of active shooting attacks and the notion of mass...
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...
Students, reporters, and researchers already rely heavily on AI chatbot programs to write term papers, media reports, and research papers, and social media influencers frequently cite them as well. Thirteen AI chatbots are currently available for public use, as...
Dr. John Lott and CPRC senior fellow Kesten Green, who is also a researcher at the Adelaide University, College of Business and Law, compared the violent crime rates in Australia and the United States. Australian are clearly at much greater risk of violent crime than...
We have updated our earlier research to examine the FBI's active shooting data over the eleven years from 2014 to 2024. The new research is available here. . The FBI tracks active shooting cases—where individuals attempt to kill people in public places, excluding...
The behavior of major retailers, who own large swaths of private property open to the public, aligns with these preferences. Some of the country’s biggest chains—including Walmart, Costco, Kroger, Walgreens, CVS, and Target—generally prohibit their customers from...
Wall Street Journal reporter Mark Maremont continues his attacks on people carrying concealed handguns (this titled "The Innocent Bystanders Caught in Deadly Crossfire of Self-Defense Shootings"). Previously we tried writing letters to the WSJ pointing out legal...