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 3), 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...
While Americans know that guns take many innocent lives every year, many don’t know that firearms also save them. While Americans know that guns take many innocent lives every year, many don’t know that firearms also save them. On May 15, an attacker at an apartment...
Our research by Dr. John Lott and Professor Carl Moody titled "Do White Police Officers Unfairly Target Black Suspects?" is forthcoming in the journal Economics, Law, and Policy's December issue. For those who wish to replicate our research, all the files are...
The National Crime Victimization Survey, in the latest year that it is available, 2019, shows that firearms were used 440,830 incidents for rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults (Table 25). The FBI Uniform Crime Reports shows that firearms were used...
Dr. John Lott has a new investigative news piece at Real Clear Investigations that was also up on the Real Clear Politics page. In response to sharp increases in violent crime, President Biden stressed again last week that his administration is focused on...
Remember that 12 states mandate that public universities allow permitted concealed handguns on public college campuses (the NCSL excludes Tennessee from their list because professors and staff and not students (except for graduate teaching assistants) are...
This new research by Dr. John Lott is available here. While he was working at the Department of Justice, he put together a report on errors in the FBI's Reports on Active Shooting incidents. Abstract The claim in the original FBI report that active shooting cases have...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigation/Real Clear Politics and the Daily Signal and American Greatness. Democrats and much of the media are pushing to make permanent the extraordinary, pandemic-driven measures to relax voting rules during the 2020...
The news media and entertainment television keep pushing the notion that most mass public shootings are done by white supremacists. Who is a white supremacist is actually fairly difficult to determine because many of the classifications are based on solely whether the...