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...
CPRC original research
New Original Research: NATIONAL REVIEW OF RETAINING ELECTION RECORDS FROM THE 2020 ELECTION
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...
At Real Clear Investigations: How the FBI Undercounts Armed Citizen Responders to Mass Killers — and Media Play Along
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: Errors in Associated Press, the Washington Post, and the New York Times articles on how rarely concealed carry permit holders stop active shooters
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...
Comments on the latest Donohue paper: “More Guns, More Unintended Consequences”
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....
Breaking down Mass Public Shooting data from 1998 through May 2022: Info on weapons used; gun-free zones; racial, age, and gender demographics
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....
Biden on Assault weapons
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...
Another School Shooting in a Place where teachers and staff were banned from carrying guns: Robb Elementary School in the Uvalde, Texas CISD
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...
At Real Clear Politics: When Misinformation Drives Bad Policy
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...
UPDATED: Thoughts on the New England Journal of Medicine Letter about Gun deaths for “Children or Adolescents” being the leading cause of death
Here are the numbers for those under 20, but there are some issues with the accuracy of these numbers. UPDATE: The New England Journal of Medicine has a letter making the claim that children are more likely to die from guns than any other cause. The piece contains...
Our Research at Real Clear Investigations: LA’s Crime Surge Migrates to Wealthy, Whiter Zip Codes of Boldface Names
We decided to measure exactly how the locations of crime have been changing in a city such as Los Angeles. It is surely something people have felt was happening, but it seemed useful to actually measure the size of the change. We teamed up with James Varney at Real...
Simple tests for the extent of vote fraud with absentee and provisional ballots in the 2020 US presidential election
Dr. John Lott's research on vote fraud can be downloaded and read here. The data and the "do files" for STATA allow people to replicate and check all the results are available in these links. STATA data filesDo file for all the tables and other regressions.The data...