From the New York Post: Police have not yet released information related to the motive, but said the school — not specific victims — was targeted. Swope told The Post that Hale had “looked at” two other schools, both public, before deciding “the security was too great...
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Covenant School Shooter targeted another place but decided against that “because of a threat assessment by the suspect of too much security”
Here is yet another example of mass public shooter picking a target based on whether people with guns made doing the attack difficult. More details will hopefully be forthcoming. We have previously pointed to similar examples here and here. . “It was the only school...
UPDATED: How mass killers pick out venues where their victims are sitting ducks
Updated March 28, 2023: At some point, you would think that the empirical evidence would be overwhelming. When the Aurora, Colorado Batman movie theater shooter attacked, there were seven movie theaters showing "The Dark Knight Rises" on July 20th within 20 minutes of...
Updated information on Mass Public Shootings
Here is some updated information on the characteristics of mass public shooters. Including some information from the Covenant school shooter on March 27, 2023. Here is also an Excel file with even more detailed information. Also, here is information on statements by...
At the Washington Times: FBI data on good guys with guns called ‘garbage’ as critic finds many more cases
The Washington Times has a long article on our research on the FBI Active Shooting reports missing cases where civilians stop attacks (see also here). This was also picked up in the Daily Journal on March 26, 2023. The article is as follows: Mercedes Perez crashed her...
Michigan State Mass Murderer Had Prior Felony Gun Charge Dismissed By Progressive Prosecutor in the name of ‘race equity’
Here is another example of the problems created by progressive prosecutors. . A gunman who killed three and wounded five others at Michigan State University on Monday would have been barred from owning a firearm at the time of the shooting had he not had felony gun...
UPDATED: Compiling Cases where concealed handgun permit holders have stopped likely mass public shootings
This is a revised, updated version of a post originally written on April 21, 2015. We have most seriously updated this list starting at the beginning of 2020. UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh wrote in the Washington Post on April 20, 2015: "Have civilians with...
California’s Mass Public Shooting rate is much higher than Texas’ or the rest of the United States
-- “Compared to citizens of other states, Californians are about 25% less likely to die in mass shootings. Between 2019 and 2021, the state’s annual mass shooting homicide rate of 1.4 per one million people was lower than the national average of 1.9.” A report by...
After Mass Public Shooting in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu announces that “Firearm licensing will be expedited and expanded in order to enable thousands of additional citizens to carry weapons”
Israel just had a mass public shooting where seven people were murdered. Compare Israel's response to that in California, where they have just had several mass public shootings. In California, few people have a concealed handgun permit. Half Moon Bay is in San Mateo...
What do the attacks in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay in California have in common?: Very strict gun control and virtually no one has a concealed handgun permit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-IncBq5eKM California has a strict assault weapon ban, and handguns were used in both attacks, but Biden seems to think that solution to these attacks is to have a ban across the whole country. The handgun used in Monterey Park may...
“Good Samaritan” Armed Amazon employee stops shooter who opened fire at Arizona facility, police say “likely preventing further bloodshed”
This attack was stopped at the Amazon warehouse parking lot in Chandler, Arizona. More examples are available here. . An armed Arizona man is being credited as a "good Samaritan" by police after he shot an active shooter in an Amazon facility parking lot,...
At Real Clear Politics: The “Crazy, Right-Wing Shooter” Myth
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics on media bias. The piece was carried on the Real Clear Wire and published in pieces such as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. . If you only read the New York Times editorials, you’d believe that political violence in...