Remember what happened after the Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya in late 2013? From a piece that the CPRC had in the Chicago Tribune: Right after the Kenya attack, Ronald Noble, the secretary-general of Interpol, which is a world version of the FBI and...
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Fox News stories on our research about the FBI fudging mass shooting statistics is at the very top of the website and is the most viewed story
The Fox News story is available here. If you are interested in reading our original report that will be published this week in the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Today, please download it here. Right now the coverage of our report is at the very top of the Fox...
CPRC in the New York Post: “The FBI’s bogus report on mass shootings”
John Lott's newest piece in the New York Post discusses our recent study and starts this way: It’s disheartening to see the FBI used to promote a political agenda, but that’s what we got with the bureau’s release last month of a study claim to show a sharp rise in...
The incredibly flawed FBI study on active shooters, CPRC original research
The figure using the FBI data pretty much summarizes their claim: from 2000 to 2013, fatalities from public shootings in the US have grown by an average annual rate of 16.4%. While the FBI report provides graphs illustrating "active shooting incidents," not mass...
CPRC at Fox News: “Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun propaganda”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: When former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun control groups release a report, they consistently garner massive, uncritical news coverage. Alas. With the huge number of factual mistakes in these reports,...
Obama renews call for more gun control
On the one-year anniversary of the Navy Yard shooting, President Obama "called on Americans to renew the push for gun-control legislation": "One year ago, 12 Americans went to work to protect and strengthen the country they loved," Obama said. "Today, we must do the...
UPDATED: Fortunately, Doctor carries gun despite gun-free zone, police chief says he saved lives
The shooting at the Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, PA on Thursday evening was stopped by Dr. Lee Silverman, who happened to have his gun with him. Silverman critically wounded the attacker Richard Plotts after Plotts shot to death case worker Theresa Hunt. Hunt...
A possible mass public shooting stopped by a concealed carry permit holder
It looks like four party goers happened upon some gang members. Fortunately, one of the victims had his permitted concealed handgun. This dramatic defensive gun use got attention in Chicago, but if the permit holder hadn't been at the scene, having multiple victims...
CPRC at Fox News: What liberal media won’t tell you: School shooting deaths down, not up, across America
The Fox News piece starts this way: Is there an epidemic of school shootings? Parents are understandably fearful, but their fear is unjustified. Schools are relatively safe places, and they have gotten much safer. While even one death is too many, the number of...
Another Planned School Shooting: Everything we have said about the planning, maximizing kills to maximize publicity, and the targeting of the school resource officer is true again here
How many more times do we have to hear the exact same story over and over again before we realize that these killers crave media attention? From the Times News (Kingsport, Tennessee) on June 12th: . . . According to law enforcement officials, the teens intended to...
Former executive director of Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown For Gun Safety admits that their proposals won’t stop these attacks
Mark Glaze, the executive director of Michael Bloomberg's Everytown For Gun Safety until earlier this month, told the Wall Street Journal that the policies that they propose enacting wouldn't stop these attacks: “Because people perceive a mismatch in the policy...
UPDATED information on K-12 and University School Shootings Deaths: The number of deaths has been declining over time
Updated school shooting data is available here. (Click on a figure to make it larger.) Using data from the National School Safety Center, Slate, Michael Bloomberg (as viewed on June 13, 2014), and CNN shows a significant drop in firearms deaths at schools over the...