The killer's manifesto made a couple of things clear. He is a racist who identifies with the Christchurch shooter and says that they have the same views. The New Zealand killer was a socialist/environmentalist who supported gun control. The El Paso killer is also an...
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Another mass public shooting at another gun-free zone: the Gilroy Garlic Festival attack
UPDATE: Governor Newsom: "This is insane. Only in America, only in America, here we go again." Yet, few seem to realize how much more common mass public shootings are in the rest of the world, including parts of Europe. An earlier similar study was published in a...
Breaking down Mass Public Shooting data from 1998 through June 2019: Info on weapons used; gun-free zones; racial, age, and gender demographics
The Excel file with detailed information on mass public shootings is available here. With all the discussion about having another assault weapon ban, only 13% of mass public shootings are done solely with any type of rifle. Twenty-eight percent involve only a rifle or...
DRAMATIC REVELATION: The day of the Virginia Beach shooting one of the victims considered taking a gun to work over concerns about a colleague, but didn’t because of gun-free zone
We have previously pointed out how the shooting at the Virginia Beach municipal building was a gun-free zone. From The Virginian-Pilot (June 10, 2019) has this dramatic revelation: Kate Nixon considered taking a gun to work on May 31, the day a co-worker killed her...
At Townhall.com: What Gun Control Advocates Fail to Grasp After Mass Shootings
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall.com on the Virginia Beach shooting. The employee handbook info regarding employees being banned from having guns is available here. Another horrifying attack and immediately gun control politicians and organizations are...
UPDATED: Another mass public shooting, another place where the victims were banned from carrying guns, the attack at Virginia Beach
[Originally posted on Saturday, June 1] Another horrifying attack and immediately gun control politicians and organizations are calling for more gun control laws. Former VP Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former...
Denver Post interviewing the CPRC about the 20th Anniversary of Columbine massacre
Dr. John Lott was one of the people interviewed by the Denver Post about the 20th Anniversary of Columbine massacre. Here is the discussion that they had with him. John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and author of “More Guns, Less Crime,” said...
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...
Civilian apparently cut short attack at Second Christchurch Mosque, only 7 died at that Mosque versus 41 at other one
UPDATE: The original news reports suggested that a Muslim at the Mosque had run home (presumably very nearby) to get his gun to stop the attack. Well, new reports suggest something quite different happened. There are basic inconsistencies between the two reports. The...
Mass Public Shootings around the World: In two days there were large mass public shootings in Brazil and New Zealand
The attack at a public school in Suzano, Brazil on March 13th, 2019, resulted in eight deaths and 23 people wounded. Two former students committed the massacre, and they reportedly modeled their attack after the Columbine attack, the 20th anniversary of which will...
On DC’s WMAL to discuss the Aurora mass public shooting at Henry Pratt Co.
Dr. John Lott was on WMAL's Mornings on the Mall to discuss the mass public shooting at Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, IL.
Yet another Mass Public Shooting in another Gun-free zone: at the Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois
“Did you ever see him with guns at work?” the anchors asked Probst [an employee at the company] about the shooter. “No. We are not even supposed to have any guns at work.” He said. -- ABC Channel 7, WLS, Chicago Reportedly, five were murdered in the attack at the...