A new survey titled "Exposure to Mass Shootings in the United States: A National Survey" and published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (SPPE) claims that approximately 6.95% of U.S. adults reported having been present at the scene of a mass shooting...
UPDATED March 7th, 2025: We have previously put out our study on the FBI's active shooting reports. If you watch entertainment television police shows, you would think something always seems to go wrong when guns are used defensively (including shooting bystanders to...
As of December 2021, 36,000 inmates from the federal prison system were placed in home confinement because of COVID-19. It would be interesting to get information on the age distribution of those released. The US prison population declined by...
As of 2023, approximately 14.3% of people living in the United States were born outside the country. 49% were naturalized U.S. citizens, so 51% of the foreign-born population were not U.S. citizens as of 2022 (this includes lawful permanent...
Many graphs using the data are shown at the end of the post. When another shooting happens at a place such as a school or a mall, politicians and the media are apt to claim that many hundreds of mass shootings occur each year. “Over the last year since Uvalde, our...
The CPRC hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 general election voters on December 17th, 2024 (cross tabs available here), regarding whether they carry concealed handguns. Not surprisingly, people in constitutional-carry states carry concealed handguns...
The CPRC commissioned a new survey by McLaughlin & Associates of 1,000 general election American voters. Despite all the claims about support for gun control, only 19% of voters think passing more gun control will reduce crime, slightly more (21%) think stricter...
A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2022 are available here. Abstract After a spike in 2022, the number of Concealed Carry Permit holders across the United States fell for a second consecutive...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations. The piece was then published at The Daily Caller, The Daily Signal, Independent Journal Review, The Epoch Times, Zero Hedge, The Political Insider, Gateway Pundit, World Net Daily, The Association of Mature...
Our new research paper is available to read here. Abstract In 2021 we wrote a short paper noting that truncating the sample when estimating the effect of right to carry laws on crime could be biased by comparisons to states that already adopted the law, instead of...
Dr. John Lott has a new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations. It also appeared at Alpha News, Patriot Post, Tipp Insights. . When the FBI originally released the "final" crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent crime...
USA Today’s headline on the FBI's reported crime data released in September 2023 claims “Violent crime dropped for second straight year in 2023, including murder and rape.” There are two errors in their headline. First, that it is the FBI’s measure of reported crime...