Many graphs using the data are shown at the end of the post. Each time a public shooting draws national attention, particularly at places such as schools or churches, politicians and the media often respond by citing figures that claim the United States suffers...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. . Democrats in the United States repeatedly praise Australia’s 1996 gun confiscation law as a successful model to emulate, while many Australians — especially after the Bondi Beach terror attack earlier this week —...
Yesterday we saw mass shootings in Australia where 15 were murdered and at Brown University where two were murdered. Both occurred in places with strict gun control (the rules for Brown are available here). The problem is that uniformed law enforcement have an...
The list of active shooting cases that were averted by people legally carrying guns, and were missed in the FBI Active Shooting reports. The FBI's definition of active shootings is narrow: it involves cases where a gun is fired in public and not part of some other...
Entertainment television repeatedly distorts the reality of mass public shootings—both who commits them and how they occur. Show after show depicts shooters wielding machine guns, even though that never happens. Another falsehood it pushes is the idea that white...
Updated August 27, 2025: You would think the empirical evidence would be overwhelming at some point. When the Aurora, Colorado Batman movie theater shooter attacked, seven movie theaters were showing "The Dark Knight Rises" on July 20th within 20 minutes of the...
It turns out that it wasn't an accident that attack in Minneapolis occurred at a gun-free zone. The murderer's manifesto makes it clear that he purposely picked a gun-free zone. The murderer wrote his manifesto in Russian, but here is the relevant translation. "I...
Two men opened fire at a party, wounding five people, but a concealed handgun permit holder quickly intervened. He shot both attackers, killing one and injuring the other. Police have taken the surviving suspect into custody. A video of the aftermath is available...
The Austrian city of Graz is in mourning after a suspected gunman killed 10 people in a secondary school shooting this morning. Seven women and three men are so far counted among the dead, local officials have said. The 21-year-old suspect - a former pupil that...
For those who wonder about President Trump's commitments to the right to self defense, you can listen to his comments immediately after the Florida State University shooting. Here is our recent research on active shootings being stopped by concealed handgun permit...
The CPRC has pointed out many times that these mass murderers are suicidal, but they want to commit suicide in a way that will get them attention. That is what the new police report on Nashville Covenant school murderer concludes was her motive. The murder "expressed...
This attack was planned for a high school in Indiana. . A high school student in Indiana is accused of planning to kill masses of students at his school on Valentine’s Day. Authorities said 18-year-old Trinity Shockley is facing conspiracy to commit murder and...