This is a revised, updated version of a post originally written on April 21, 2015. Columnist Eugene Volokh wrote in the Washington Post on April 20, 2015: "Have civilians with permitted concealed handguns stopped such mass shootings before?" We provided...
When we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. When the law expired, mass shootings tripled. -- Joe Biden, Tuesday, May 24, 2022.Transcript of Biden's Speech Tuesday night about the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas There was no...
A shooting at a Texas elementary school left 14 children and one teacher murdered. While about 30% of school districts in Texas 2020 had armed teachers and staff, unfortunately, the Robb Elementary School in the Uvalde, Texas CISD doesn't appear to be one of...
The CPRC commissioned a survey by Real Clear Politics. Dr. John Lott wrote a new piece at Real Clear Politics on the survey evidence. To President Biden, public health researchers, and the media, violent crime is all about guns. But a new survey finds that people are...
Here are the numbers for those under 20, but there are some issues with the accuracy of these numbers. UPDATE: The New England Journal of Medicine has a letter making the claim that children are more likely to die from guns than any other cause. The piece contains...
We decided to measure exactly how the locations of crime have been changing in a city such as Los Angeles. It is surely something people have felt was happening, but it seemed useful to actually measure the size of the change. We teamed up with James Varney at Real...
Dr. John Lott's research on vote fraud has been accepted at the academic journal Public Choice. People can download and read the paper available here. The data and the "do files" for STATA that allow people to replicate and check all the results are available in these...
The CPRC has some new research published in Academia Letters. The research finds statistically significant reductions in murder from the adoption of Constitutional Carry laws (see Table 3). ConclusionLate adopting states issue fewer permits than early adopting states,...
Professor Carl Moody and Dr. John Lott have put together a response that Devin Hughes' GVPedia has put together attacking research that Professor Moody did on the impact of Constitutional Carry laws and other writing by Lott. A copy of Hughes' latest claims is...
We have previously provided empirical work on the impact of Constitutional Carry Laws (download the paper here, and see particularly Table 4), but sometimes simple graphs that show the year-by-year changes are more convincing. With Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Indiana,...
People can download a copy of our research at the journal available here and at SSRN here. Abstract Using a unique data set we link the race of police officers who kill suspects with the race of those who are killed across the United States. We have data on a total of...
A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2020 are available here. AbstractDuring the Coronavirus pandemic, the number of concealed handgun permits has soared to over 21.52 million – a 48% increase...