https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXGgI2E5JUw At least 14 people were killed and dozens more were injured in a mass shooting Thursday afternoon at a university in central Prague, Czech authorities said. The shooter was a student at the school, Charles University,...
International Comparisons
At least 36 people were murdered in an attack at a nursery school in Uthai Sawan, Thailand
This attack was worse than any school shooting in the US. Only the Bath School bombing in 1927 had more murders, with 45 people dying. Thirty-four people were murdered at the school, plus the man also murdered his wife and child at home. Thirty-seven people have been...
Another school shooting in Russia: At least 17 people dead, 24 more wounded after a 34-year-old gunman, a former student, opened fire at a school in Russia’s Izhevsk
Video of the aftermath of Izhevsk, Russia school shooting The most deadly school shooting was the Beslan School siege in Russia on September 1, 2004, which left 385 dead and another 783 wounded. At the end of this article below are a few recent attacks on...
Saskatchewan, Canada stabbing leaves at least 10 murdered, 15 wounded
We have previously collected knife attacks from 2010 to early 2014. A series of stabbings at a First Nation community and in another nearby town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan left 10 people dead and 15 wounded, Canadian police said Sunday as they...
Headline in New Zealand: Rise in gun crime despite government confiscation of guns
Gun bans don't ever seem to work very well. The New Zealand gun buyback started in June 2019, and over the next six month 50,000 guns were turned in, less than a third of the 170,000 semi-automatic weapons estimated to be in circulation in New Zealand. The buyback and...
New Research: Comparing the Global Rate of Mass Public Shootings to the U.S.’s Rate and Comparing their Changes Over time: 1998 to 2017
You can download a copy of our new research on international comparison of mass public shootings is available here. Please download and read it. Abstract The U.S. is well below the world average in terms of the number of mass public shootings, and the global increase...
New Research Published at Econ Journal Watch: How the U.S. Compares to Other Countries in the Rate of Public Mass Shooters
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. and our research director, Professor Carlisle E. Moody, have published a new research paper at Econ Journal Watch for an international comparison of mass public shootings. Abstract Adam Lankford (2016) claims that the United States accounted for...
Mass Public Shooting in German town of Hanau: Nine murdered in two public
On February 19, 2020 at about 10 PM, at a town near Frankfurt, Germany, a man fatally shot nine people at two hookah lounges. A gunman killed nine people in two apparently racially motivated shootings at [two] shisha bars in the German town of Hanau, police said. The...
UPDATED: Mass public shooting in Thailand mall and military base, at least 26 murdered, 57 wounded, six in intensive care
This is the second mass shooting in less than a month in Thailand. In the previous attack, a school director used a handgun to kill three people, including a two-year-old boy, and wound four others. Regarding the latest attack, Skynews reports that at least 26 people...
Spain’s right wing party seeks looser arms control laws
Spain's fifth largest party, with 24 seats out of 350 in Parliament, campaigned this year on a promise to make it so Spaniards could use guns for self-defense and even carry permitted concealed handguns. Fox News has this: The leader of Spain's far-right Vox party...
New Research in the journal Econ Journal Watch: “Is the United States an Outlier in Public Mass Shootings?”
Dr. John Lott and our research director Professor Carl Moody have piece on what we believe has been one of the bigger academic frauds. The paper on an international comparison of mass public shootings can be downloaded here. Abstract In 2016 Adam Lankford published a...
In the Washington Times: When the media makes Trump a target
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Washington Times. His piece relies heavily on our research on mass killings around the world. The national Sunday morning talk shows blamed President Trump for the New Zealand massacre that left 50 dead. CNN’s Jake Tapper warned:...