A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2021 are available here. As the United States is moving into a post-pandemic era, the number of concealed handgun permits has continued...
Political violence is central to so much of the political debate in the US. Since a draft Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson overturning Roe v. Wade leaked in early May 2022, pro-abortion violence has again become a focus of the...
FBI ACTIVE SHOOTER DATABASE is available here for people who want to check all the casesDownload Data: For convenience, a PDF of the Excel file is also available here and a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories. FBI Active Shooting reports are...
The Crime Prevention Research Center hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey Red Flag Laws for 1,000 general election voters from July 21st to 24th, 2022. The survey asked people whether they supported Red Flag Laws, then asked whether they still supported it when...
The paper is available to be downloaded here: http://ssrn.com/abstract=4205992. Our popular write-up on this is available here. Abstract We had a simple goal: match the number of voters who voted with the number of ballots cast. After elections, concerns are raised...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations about the large systematic errors in the FBI's count of armed civilians who have stopped what otherwise would have been mass public shootings. . The shooting that killed three people and injured another at a...
UPDATED (original post on July 19th): Errors in Associated Press article titled "Rare in US for an active shooter to be stopped by bystander." It isn't common for mass shootings to be stopped in such fashion. From 2000 to 2021, fewer than 3% of 433 active attacks in...
Professor Carl Moody and Dr. John Lott have written up some comments on the latest Donohue et al. paper on concealed carry. For some perspective, you can see the academic literature on the issue here and the Amicus brief that we filed with a literature survey here....
The Excel file with detailed information on the 88 mass public shootings from 1998 through May 15, 2022 is available here. With all the discussion about having another assault weapon ban, only 14% of mass public shootings are done solely with any type of rifle....
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...