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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...