Updated information on mass public shootings from 1998 through 2024 available here. The rate for 1950 through 2024 is now 92%. UPDATED on July 6th, 2019: Original title: "More misleading information from Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety on guns: 'Analysis of...
From January 1998 to the present, 69 killers have committed 66 mass public shootings in the US. Each of these attacks claimed four or more lives. Of the attackers, four have been identified as Christians, with just three clearly being regular churchgoers. With 70%...
Terrorist vehicle attacks with 4 or more fatalities are still relatively rare, though they are becoming more frequent. Radical Muslims committed 83% of mass public attacks committed up through the end of 2017. Including attacks where fewer than 4 victims...
Do more gun control laws mean fewer firearm deaths? Gun control advocates typically provide graphs looking across states that show more gun control laws related to fewer firearm deaths, but there are real problems with this approach. A Boston University School of...
With the push by gun control advocates to ban those under age 21 from owning guns because of the shooting in Parkland, Florida, we decided to examine more closely the ages of mass public shooters over the last twenty years. The current discussion is obviously...
Over the last couple of decades, it is hard to see any particular pattern in the number of police officers who have been murdered in the line of duty, but the pattern for ambush killings, attacks that involved premeditation is a different story. During the years from...
The data below show the changes over time in both deaths from shootings at K-12 through college and also deaths from mass public shootings. This data updates an earlier report that we had put out on deaths from school shootings in June 2014. Shooting deaths at...
Picture of victim being removed from ISIS attack in Tunisia that left 39 people dead LAST UPDATED: Updated on February 14, 2018. Previous November 1, 2017; April 29, 2016 (originally posted on June 28, 2015) (Detailed discussion on Europe and the...
The Crime Prevention Research Center is proud to reveal new research that analyzes unique newly released data on crime rates by illegal aliens. Please download a copy: available here. The data as a STATA file is available here. See also the codebook and the "do...
Some public health researchers have attempted to link permitted concealed carry to aggressive or reckless driving. Before turning to two of the papers by public health researchers, let’s look at some of the data on driving behavior. Just as handgun permit holders...
We have worked hard to revise and expand our research on police shootings. We are proud of this research, and strongly recommend that people download it and read it. The study is available here. Abstract Using a unique new data set on police-involved homicides, we...
Fred Kunkle at the Washington Post has a story about the record number of seizures of guns at airports and is calling for stiffer penalties. . . . The increase in gun seizures is no doubt a reflection of record numbers of air travelers and the rising number of...