The FBI has now released its third report on active shooters. The first report covered 2000-2013, and we found 20 missing cases where at least 2 people had been killed. FBI reports for 2014-15 and 2016-17 also missed cases.
The latest report received widespread coverage in USA Today, ABC News, Chicago Sun-Times, and dozens of other local media across the country.…
Concealed Handguns Stopped Mass Public Shooting, Correcting government errors, CPRC original research
UPDATED, originally Posted April 3, 2018: An article at Vox has gained attention for illustrating America’s “unique gun violence problem” in 17 maps and charts. A similar New York Times opinion piece by Nicolas Kristof has gained attention for illustrating “How to Reduce Shootings.” Below, we will respond to the individual graphs on Vox’s and then on Kristof’s terms. …
CPRC original research, Fact Checking Bias, gun control advocates, Gun Control Lies
UPDATE: Original title: “More misleading information from Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety on guns: ‘Analysis of Recent Mass Shootings,’ Showing how mass public shootings keep occurring in gun-free zones” Originally posted on September 9, 2014.
While the first part of the discussion here goes through each mass public shooting from 2009 to 2014 discussed in the Bloomberg report. …
CPRC original research, mass public shootings, Michael Bloomberg
From January 1998 to the present, 69 killers have committed 66 mass public shootings in the US. Each of these attacks claimed four or more lives. Of the attackers, four have been identified as Christians, with just three clearly being regular churchgoers. With 70% of Americans identifying themselves as Christians and over 33% going to church at least once a week, those numbers fall far short of what one might expect.…
Terrorist vehicle attacks with 4 or more fatalities are still relatively rare, though they are becoming more frequent. Radical Muslims committed 83% of mass public attacks committed up through the end of 2017. Including attacks where fewer than 4 victims were killed, 73% of all vehicle attacks were carried out by Muslims. …
CPRC original research, International Comparisons, mass public killings non-shootings
Do more gun control laws mean fewer firearm deaths? Gun control advocates typically provide graphs looking across states that show more gun control laws related to fewer firearm deaths, but there are real problems with this approach. A Boston University School of Public Health project is one of the latest to make the rounds in various news outlets.…
With the push by gun control advocates to ban those under age 21 from owning guns because of the shooting in Parkland, Florida, we decided to examine more closely the ages of mass public shooters over the last twenty years. The current discussion is obviously motivated because the Parkland killer was 19 years old when he committed his crimes and that motivated Florida to just increase the age that people could obtain any type of gun to 21-years-old. …
Age of criminals, CPRC original research, mass public shootings
Over the last couple of decades, it is hard to see any particular pattern in the number of police officers who have been murdered in the line of duty, but the pattern for ambush killings, attacks that involved premeditation is a different story. During the years from 20 years from 1996 to 2015, on average 8 percent of police officers who were murdered died in premeditated attacks. …
The data below show the changes over time in both deaths from shootings at K-12 through college and also deaths from mass public shootings.
This data updates an earlier report that we had put out on deaths from school shootings in June 2014. Shooting deaths at K-12 schools make up over 78% of deaths at all schools, but despite an unusually large number of deaths so far this school year, both the number of deaths and the number of shooting incidents at K-12 schools has been declining over time. …
Picture of victim being removed from ISIS attack in Tunisia that left 39 people dead
LAST UPDATED: Updated on February 14, 2018. Previous November 1, 2017; April 29, 2016 (originally posted on June 28, 2015) (Detailed discussion on Europe and the rest of the world can be found in Dr.…
CPRC original research, International Comparisons, mass public shootings
