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...
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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...
Greg Gutfeld mentions John Lott’s work in discussing Bloomberg’s false 74 school shootings since Sandy Hook claim
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Bloomberg's cases involve shootings near a school and a large percentage are gang shootings after hours. While gang fights over drug turf are an important problem, they are a very different issue with different solutions...
CPRC on Canada’s Sun News: Discussing whether gun registration would stop public mass shootings, role of gun-free zones
Concealed Carry Permit Holder may have stopped North Las Vegas shooting that left three people dead
Picture of Joseph Wilcox and his family. UPDATE: The Las Vegas Review Journal has this: After the shooting, the couple headed toward a nearby Wal-Mart, where Jerad Miller was confronted by Joseph Robert Wilcox, 31, of Las Vegas. Wilcox was legally carrying a concealed...
The Moncton, New Brunswick Shooter: Another killer who clearly understood the advantage to him of gun-free zones
Here are two of the photos that this killer, Justin Bourque, had on his Facebook page. While CNN mentions his "anti-government, pro-gun" leanings on his Facebook page, this Canadian killer clearly understood the advantage that gun-free zones offered him. Note that...
CPRC on Canada’s Sun News Network: Reacting to the Moncton, N.B. Shootings
This segment was broadcast on Thursday, June 5th, 2014, 6 to 7 PM. Some background on the Moncton shootings is available here. The timeline of the Moncton events is available here. Some background on the Ian Thompson case is available here. An excellent commentary at...
CPRC at Fox News: Memo to gun-control advocates: Even Elliot Rodger believed guns would have deterred him
The newest Fox News piece starts this way: How can we prevent mass murderers? Elliot Rodger, the 22-year-old who killed six innocent people this past Friday in California, is causing everyone to ask that question, yet again. Rodger spent over a year and a half...
CPRC in the News over Santa Barbara Tragedy
Radio interviews on May 27th Larry Elder Show, KABC, May 27, 7:14 to 7:21 PM Lars Larson Show, May 27, 7:35 to 8:00 PM The Real Side with Joe Messina, May 27, 6:08 to 6:30 PM The Marc Bernier Show, May 27, 5:20 to 5:30 PM. Dr. Gina Loundon Show, May 27, 4:20 to 4:30...
Do mentally ill, multiple victim killers purposefully pick targets where victims are most vulnerable?: The case of Elliot Rodger
With all the discussions about mental illness, one has to understand how much care and planning these killers engage in. Here is something from Elliot Rodger's manifesto that no one seems to understand the importance of: "The first thing I had to consider was the...
6 killed, seven wounded in Mass Public Shooting in Santa Barbara, a giant gun-free zone
UPDATE: As usual, the media news stories got fundamental facts wrong here. Of particular interest, half the people killed here were stabbed to death. Also, you won't hear this in the news, the magazines that the killer used were also apparently limited to holding no...
CPRC making a difference in the debate over the Fort Hood Mass Public Shooting
John Lott's op-ed on the shooting at Fox News starts this way: The Obama administration hasn’t learned anything from the massacres at Fort Hood in 2009 or the Washington Navy Yard last year. For all my research on how to stop or prevent mass public shootings and all...