Dr. John Lott has a short piece on whether schools should allow teachers to carry guns in Health Behavior Research, a journal of the American Academy of Health Behavior. The paper can be downloaded here (Volume 1 • Issue 3 • 2018, Article 3). See also related research...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Daily Caller on the school safety report released this laws week by the Trump administration. The piece starts this way: The “Final Report of the Federal Commission on School Safety” — signed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos,...
(Click on Figure to Enlarge) On Thursday, May 4th, 2017, Georgia became the 12th state to mandate that public universities allow people to carry guns on campus. Following Arkansas, Georgia was the second state to pass campus carry in 2017. Ten other states have done...
On Saturday, November 17, 2018, the Illinois Association of School Boards barely defeats arming teachers 53% to 47%. Members of the Illinois Association of School Boards voted Saturday against a resolution that would give school districts the option to train and arm...
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...