Bloomberg's reports continue to have major errors. The CPRC is proud to release a new report on Bloomberg's most recent study on mass shootings (a copy of our report is available here). Here is the abstract of our latest report: Mass public shootings, where the...
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New Report from Crime Prevention Research Center shows 11.1 million Americans Hold Concealed Carry Permits
UPDATE: Newest numbers 14.5 million permit holders in 2016. The report below is for 2014. The later reports for 2015 and 2016 can be seen here. ORIGINAL POST: Concealed-Carry-Permit-Holders-Across-the-United-StatesThe Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) today...
Discussion of Chicago’s crime problems ignore what Rahm Emanuel has done to the police department
There is a lot of discussion right now about the number of shootings in Chicago over the 4th of July weekend. As the Chicago Tribune notes: 16 people killed in weekend gun violence over the long holiday weekend in Chicago. Sixty-six other people were wounded, a toll...
UPDATED information on K-12 and University School Shootings Deaths: The number of deaths has been declining over time
Updated school shooting data is available here. (Click on a figure to make it larger.) Using data from the National School Safety Center, Slate, Michael Bloomberg (as viewed on June 13, 2014), and CNN shows a significant drop in firearms deaths at schools over the...
Typical misinformation put out by Bloomberg’s Moms Demand Action: The claim that US accounts for “84% of female firearm homicides in 25 countries are in US”
Given the Santa Barbara killers' hatred of women (though 4 of the 6 people killed were men), it is understandable that the topic of violence against women would be discussed. Not too surprisingly, despite the fact that half of those killed were killed by being...
Is the death penalty racist? Are executions disproportionately affecting any particular race?
Data on homicide offenders by race from 1976 to 2005 is available here. After that the data is available from the annual FBI UCR reports. The bottom line is that while whites account for less than half of murderers, they are almost two-thirds of those who are...
Massive errors in the Violence Policy Center’s “Concealed Carry Killers”
The Violence Policy Center regularly puts out the claim that concealed handgun permit holders are a danger to themselves and others. Right now they claim that concealed handgun permits have been responsible for 636 deaths from the entire United States over almost...
Comparing murder rates and gun ownership across countries
Charles Blow in the New York Times last year made the very common argument: “America has the highest gun homicide rate, the highest number of guns per capita . . . .” In another story, the New York Times quotes researcher David Hemenway as claiming: “Generally, if...
CPRC at Fox News: “Don’t believe mainstream media mistruths about firearms research”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: If we are to believe the mainstream media, the powerful NRA has used its political muscle to keep people ignorant of how guns impact our safety. They are supposedly to blame for the elimination of firearms...
MYTH: FIREARMS RESEARCH FELL AFTER THE NRA RESTRICTIONS ON FEDERAL FUNDING
The CPRC is proud to release a new study that is available here. Here is part of a news story on the report from Fox News: A forthcoming study is challenging claims, repeated over and over in the media, that federal restrictions effectively froze gun research over the...
Obama’s impact on US gun sales, a warning about using NICS checks to measure gun sales
Gun sales have exploded under the Obama administration even while crime rates have fallen. Jason Riley has recently made that point in the Wall Street Journal. NICS checks for guns are a rather imperfect measure of gun sales. People can buy multiple guns with one...
CPRC at Fox News: Media cherry picks Missouri gun data to make misleading case for more control
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News discusses the forthcoming study in the Journal of Urban Health that has been getting a lot of media attention. His piece starts this way: With headlines claiming “Study Shows Gun Control Works,” media outlets such as CBS, MSNBC,...