Over the last two months, what would have been mass public shootings at schools in Illinois and Maryland were stopped by armed school resource officers. Of course, this should be three cases in a row. While Broward Deputy Scot Peterson arrived at the building one...
Should teachers and staff at schools be armed? John Stossel and producer Maxim Lott made a video analyzing that question, and used CPRC research to do so. More information on concealed handguns at schools is available here. There are a couple of nitpicking points to...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Hill that starts this way: The polls indicate that Americans support more gun control right now, but are also very skeptical that more gun control will reduce violence or mass public shootings. We typically see such increased...
Three or four teachers and staff carrying at schools would probably be enough to protect most schools. Time after time comments are made that teachers are just unwilling to carry. Yet, every time free classes are offered for teachers, more want to take the classes...
The Miami Herald has this description of the incredibly slow response from the Broward Sheriff's office. While Broward Deputy Scot Peterson arrived at the building one minute after the attack started, it was another 10 minutes before any officers attempted to enter...
UPDATED: October 8, 2018 (ORIGINAL March 7, 2018): After the Parkland, Florida high school shooting, a number of states have considered allowing teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns. The obvious question is how has it worked in the states that allow guns to...
Florida Senate votes to arm teachers, but this would be by far the most restrictive law in terms of the amount of training required by any of the 25 states that allow staff and teachers to carry. The 144 hours of training is 3.6 times more than in the next most...
Police are extremely important in stopping crime, but they usually don't arrive on the scene while the crime is occurring. Unfortunately, there are a couple cases where they could have been on the scene and chose not to do so. Broward County Sheriff's Office Deputy...
In 1998, when Dr. John Lott first proposed allowing teachers to be armed at schools virtually no one supported his idea. The op-ed that he had in the Wall Street Journal was not well-received. Still over the years, gun-free zones at schools have gradually been...
The data below show the changes over time in both deaths from shootings at K-12 through college and also deaths from mass public shootings. This data updates an earlier report that we had put out on deaths from school shootings in June 2014. Shooting deaths at...
An ROTC student said the football coach could have stopped the shooter if he had his firearm. The coach was also a security guard. This was on Friday, February 17th, 2018, and it is something that you surely aren't going to see on other television networks. When...
Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) have a new op-ed piece in the New York Daily News on the lessons from last week's school shooting in Kentucky. Here is how the piece starts: Before knowing almost anything about last Tuesday's mass public shooting at...