Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics about how gun control advocates don't want civilians or the police to have guns. Also reprinted at Zero Hedged and AOL.com . Gun control advocates do not just oppose civilian gun ownership; they also argue that guns...
On January 8th, Brady United's president Kris Brown put out a tweet: We don't know the details behind the shootings of 2 people by a Border Patrol agent in Portland. But I know one thing for certain: whether in the hands of federal officers or everyday...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist about the Trump administration undoing Biden's DEI push in police and fire departments. . The Trump administration has dropped the Biden administration’s pushes for onerous consent decrees on police and fire...
As the Marshall Project notes, "By 2020, almost every law enforcement agency was included in the FBI’s database." But the new system, which went into effect in 2021, is missing a lot of data. In 2022, 32% of police departments stopped reporting crime data, and another...
Any guess what will happen to the number of shoplifting and other crimes? Don't people understand that this type of policy will increase the crime rate? Then, Wu was asked whether she supported a do-not-prosecute list enacted by the former Suffolk County...
Often, people point to the rate at which police officers are murdered with their guns. Over the 17 years from 2002 to 2018, there were 34 officers murdered with their gun compared to the 878 officers who were murdered — 3.87% of the total. But the relevant comparison...
"Father calls police to report a child sex predator preying on his 11-year-old daughter. Police show up 6 hours later and threaten to arrest an 11-year-old little girl." This is pretty shocking. I understand you want to discourage children from engaging in giving...
This isn't too surprising to anyone who have been following our work. . . . Violent crime in Asheville increased 31% per 100,000 people between 2016 and 2020 – nearly double the national average and 18-percentage points higher than North Carolina's 13% increase...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4NSBuwklQM Here is a statement from Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna saying that California has among the strictest gun control laws in the country, and they aren't working. Of course, some would argue that California has the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp07tQDqqbI Immediately before the election, Democrats wanted to disown the notion of defunding the police. Well, it is back again. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) raises the issue of enforcing the types of gun control laws that he...
While 19 children and two teachers were being murdered inside the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, police waited outside the school trying to decide what to do. Eventually it wasn't the police who entered, but a Border Patrol Tactical Unit. The murderer also...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. In Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Biden claims that he wants to restore safety and control crime. He denounced efforts to “defund” the police. But with congressional elections coming up, he lacked any...