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This story won’t be a surprise for those who have followed the CPRC (or here). In California, concealed carry permit holders are allowed to carry on school property if they have approval of the school superintendent, which it would be too surprising for Vice Principal to obtain. From KBAK/KBFX in Bakersfield, California:
…A Tevis Junior High School administrator who was arrested and subsequently released last month after bringing a gun to school has filed a claim against the city of Bakersfield and its police department, according to his attorney Daniel Rodriguez.
Bloomberg’s groups have been pushing for sometime to get businesses to ban guns in their facilities. On Monday, Panera Bread announced that it was asking customers not to bring guns to its restaurants” ((314) 984-1000). But much of the media coverage has been misleading and simply asking people not to bring their guns with them won’t have any legal effect. …
The CBS News piece buys into the false Bloomberg claim that these types of shootings are becoming more of a threat and it doesn’t address why the concerns over teachers carrying is misplaced, but it is still a useful piece. The fact that CBS News is using the completely discredited Bloomberg claim about the school shooting problem getting worse is very disturbing.…
Fox News extensively quoted CPRC president John Lott about the tragic story of a young mother who ran afoul of New Jersey gun laws. On October 1st, Shaneen Allen, 27, was stopped by police in New Jersey’s Atlantic County after making an unsafe lane change. Allen then volunteered that she had the .380 Bersa Thunder handgun, as well as a concealed carry permit for Pennsylvania, unaware that her permit was not transferable to The Garden State. …
Complicated Gun Laws, concealed carry, Media Discussion on CPRC
UPDATE: Newest numbers 14.5 million permit holders in 2016. The report below is for 2014. The later reports for 2015 and 2016 can be seen here.
ORIGINAL POST: Concealed-Carry-Permit-Holders-Across-the-United-StatesThe Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) today released a report, Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States, revealing that 11.1 million Americans hold concealed carry permits up from an estimated 4.6 million in 2007 [scroll down to see some updated numbers showing closer to 12 million permit holders].…
annual report on number of concealed handgun permits, concealed carry, CPRC original research, Media Discussion on CPRC
Updated school shooting data is available here.
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Using data from the National School Safety Center, Slate, Michael Bloomberg (as viewed on June 13, 2014), and CNN shows a significant drop in firearms deaths at schools over the last 20 years, though there is a difference when one breaks it down separately for K-12 and universities.…
CPRC original research, mass public shootings, Michael Bloomberg
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Bloomberg’s cases involve shootings near a school and a large percentage are gang shootings after hours. While gang fights over drug turf are an important problem, they are a very different issue with different solutions than the mass public shootings where the goal is to kill as many people as possible. …
mass public shootings, media bias on guns, Michael Bloomberg, School Shootings
(Click on picture to make it larger, screen shot taken on June 4th, 2014 (original here).)
So how accurate is first set of “facts” about guns that Moms Demand Action points to? How about something that double or triple counts supposed deaths caused by concealed handgun permit holders? Many of these deaths clearly didn’t involve guns and many were self defense cases that should have been counted as benefits of concealed handguns, not costs.…
Greg Garrison Radio Show WIBC in Indianapolis (Thursday, April 24th, 9:35 to 10:00 AM EDT).
Peter Schiff Radio Show (National) (A Wednesday, April 23rd, 10:35 to 11:00 AM EDT).
Phil Valentine Radio Show (National) (Wednesday, April 23rd, 3:35 to 3:45 PM EDT).
Conservative News/Talk KNUS, Denver, CO (Wednesday, April 23rd, 4:35 to 4:45 PM EDT).…
Bloomberg’s promise to spend $50 million this year on gun control efforts is just the tip of the iceberg. As the NY Times reports it, this is 2.5 times the $20 million that the NRA has been spending a year on political activities.
But that $50 million is really just a portion of the money Bloomberg is spending on the gun issue and it doesn’t even count all the other money that is flowing into the issue.…
