There were 46 shooting attacks at K-12 schools where there were school resource officers or other types of law enforcement officers (45 cases from 2000 through 2025). Thirty-nine of the cases involve casualties other than the attacker. In those 39 cases, there was on...
The CPRC hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 general election voters on August 25th, 2026 (cross tabs available here) regarding general election voters' views on allowing teachers to carry concealed handguns at schools. While voters...
Our recent discussion on this issue in the WSJ is available here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPcZGZBwFbI Kamala Harris' talk to the American Federation of Teachers on July 25, 2024: "While you try to create safe and welcoming places where our children can learn, extremists attack our freedom to live safe from gun violence. They...
The murderer's original target was a local historically Black college, Edward Waters University. After students alerted a security guard to the stranger on campus, the attacker was chased from the school. We have put together a long list of mass murderers who have...
People can have guns on their property within 1,000 feet of a school, but Gabriel Metcalf stepped onto the sidewalk in front of his school and got arrested. He didn’t realize the sidewalk was not classified as part of his property. The man is being held in jail.
On Monday, the St Louis high school called the police about an active shooter at 9:11 a.m., with police arriving at the school four minutes later. After another eight minutes, the police engaged in a gunfight and secured him. While there were seven security personnel...
"A school district may, in its discretion, prohibit or allow its employees who hold enhanced conceal carry licenses to possess weapons at the school," Jean Cook, director of communication for the Mississippi Department of Education said in a statement. Bradford Betz,...
Any teacher in Utah with a concealed handgun permit is able to carry their permitted concealed handgun at school. In this case, a teacher first protected an 11-year-old that this unrelated stranger tried to grab off a school playground and then protected the class of...
Eleven of Florida’s 67 county school districts have given classroom teachers the option to carry guns. Only seven of those eleven school districts have made their policy intensions public and they include: Bay, Gilchrist, Lafayette, Levy, Okeechobee, Putnam and...
Schools that Allow Teachers to Carry Guns are Extremely Safe: Data on the Rate of Shootings and Accidents in Schools that allow Teachers to Carry Abstract After the Columbine school shooting 20 years ago, one of the more significant changes in how we protect students...
Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson on both his national and Northwest radio shows about what have we learned about stopping mass public shootings in 20 years after Columbine. (Northwest Show, Friday, April 19th, 2019, from 4:05 to 4:14 PM) Appears on 21 radio...