https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKXSGsumy68 Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) claims that suppressors make mass public shootings more deadly. Between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2024, there were 104 mass public shootings, but only two of those involved suppressors...
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JAMA Pediatrics Publishes Extremely Flawed Studied Titled: “Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US”
A new study in JAMA Pediatrics asserts that states with "permissive" gun control laws experienced higher pediatric firearm mortality rates following the 2010 Supreme Court decision in McDonald v. Chicago. The study analyzed data from 49 states spanning 1999 to 2023....
Our Survey Shows Why the Recent Public Health Survey Claiming 18 million American Adults Present at Mass Shootings is So Ridiculous. Number Shot Given by the Survey is Off by at least 71 Times!
A new survey titled “Exposure to Mass Shootings in the United States: A National Survey” and published in March 7th issue of the journal JAMA Network Open claims that approximately 6.95% of U.S. adults reported having been present at the scene of a mass shooting...
A Slight Drop in the Rate that Total Violent Crimes Resulted in an Arrest in 2023, A Very Slight Increase for Property Crimes
We had previously reported that 20.3% of total violent crimes in 2022 result in an arrest and that was true for 3.8% of total property crimes. That was obtained by taking the Bureau of Justice Statistics measure of total violent and property crimes that were reported...
UPDATED: New Research: Do Armed Civilians Stop Active Shooters More Effectively Than Uniformed Police?
We updated a new research paper that we hope you agree is very important. Please download and read it here. . Abstract . The FBI tracks active shooting cases—where individuals attempt to kill people in public places, excluding those tied to robberies or gang violence....
Bait and Switch: Public Health Survey Claims 18 million American Adults Present at Mass Shootings and 5.6 million Injured. The Definition of Mass Shootings the Survey Starts with is Less than 2% of the Number they claim, and that is Likely an Overestimate.
A new survey titled "Exposure to Mass Shootings in the United States: A National Survey" and published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (SPPE) claims that approximately 6.95% of U.S. adults reported having been present at the scene of a mass shooting...
UPDATED 2: A Deep Dive into Cases Where Civilians Stopped Active Shooters. Did they accidentally shoot bystanders, get in the way of police, get their gun taken away, or create other problems? How does it compare to police who stopped these attacks?
UPDATED March 7th, 2025: We have previously put out our study on the FBI's active shooting reports. If you watch entertainment television police shows, you would think something always seems to go wrong when guns are used defensively (including shooting bystanders to...
Who died in Federal Prisons from COVID-19?
As of December 2021, 36,000 inmates from the federal prison system were placed in home confinement because of COVID-19. It would be interesting to get information on the age distribution of those released. The US prison population declined by 157,500 persons during...
After Removing Immigration Related Crimes, the Percent of Foreign Citizens in Federal Prison is 46.6% Higher Their Share of the US Population
As of 2023, approximately 14.3% of people living in the United States were born outside the country. 49% were naturalized U.S. citizens, so 51% of the foreign-born population were not U.S. citizens as of 2022 (this includes lawful permanent...
Updated Detailed Information on Mass Public Shootings from 1998 to 2024
Many graphs using the data are shown at the end of the post. When another shooting happens at a place such as a school or a mall, politicians and the media are apt to claim that many hundreds of mass shootings occur each year. “Over the last year since Uvalde, our...
New Survey on the Rate that People Carry Concealed Handguns: Comparing Constitutional Carry States, Right-to-Carry States, and the Seven May-Issue States before Bruen
The CPRC hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 general election voters on December 17th, 2024, regarding whether they carry concealed handguns. Not surprisingly, people in constitutional-carry states carry concealed handguns more frequently than people in...
Only 19% of American Voters Think that Passing more Gun Control Will Reduce Crime, Only 40% think that Either Passing More Gun Control or More Strictly Enforcing Gun Control would Reduce Crime. Americans want Criminals Arrested and Kept in Jail.
The CPRC commissioned a new survey by McLaughlin & Associates of 1,000 general election American voters. Despite all the claims about support for gun control, only 19% of voters think passing more gun control will reduce crime, slightly more (21%) think stricter...