Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 4.4%, the correct number is at least 34.4%. In 2021, it is at least 49.1%. Excluding gun-free zones, it averaged over 50%.
Crime Prevention Research Center
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A research & education organization conducting academic quality research on laws regulating the ownership or use of guns, crime, policing, & public safety.
Joined October 2013
- Mass Public Shooting averted: Woman fatally shoots a man armed with an AR-15 type gun who began shooting at a crowd of people in Charleston, West Virginia
- .@Twitter locked @JohnRLottJr's account for tweeting about the NZ mosque killer. The killer's manifesto does state he did the attack b/c it would lead to more gun control & he is a socialist, environmentalist, who hates capitalist & free trade. details: crimeresearch.org/2019/03/new-ze…
- An ROTC student said the hero football coach could have stopped the shooter if he had his firearm crimeresearch.org/2018/02/rotc-s…
- Concealed handguns used by civilians to stop crimes a dozen times over the last few weeks
- With all the concern about assault weapons, how has the share of murders with rifles changed over time? The data is available here for people to double-check. crimeresearch.org/2024/02/with-a… #2a #guns #gun #assaultweaponban #AWB #massshootings #GunControlNow #guncontrol
- GUN-FREE ZONES DON'T WORK: A study from @CrimeResearch1 shows 89 percent of mass shootings between 1998 and June 2019 occurred in gun-free zones. ➡️bit.ly/89percentCPRC
GIF - New York Mass Public Shooter Explicitly targeted: “areas where CCW are outlawed or prohibited may be good areas of attack” “areas with strict gun laws are also great places of attack”
- Every town has blocked us. Obviously they don’t like when we share FACTS proving their statements surrounding violence and firearms are blatant disinformation. It looks like we will have to rely on all of you… the CPRC facts militia to help continue debunking their false
- Gun control doesn't work in Mexico, why would it work here in the U.S.?
- .@MalloryMcMorrow, the Michigan State Senate Democrat Majority Whip,blocked the CPRC from making comments on her post,so here is a screenshot. Most peer-reviewed research supports Lott's work crimeresearch.org/2020/11/do-rig… See also largest survey of researchers papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
- Dr. John Lott DESTROYS gun control bill before the Oregon state Senate Judiciary Committee:
00:00 - This is false. The U.S. accounts for approximately 1% of the world’s mass shootings. In fact, there are more countries in Europe that have a higher number of mass shootings per capita than the United States. For those that want THE TRUTH regarding mass shooting statistics(as well
- Florida becomes the 26th Constitutional Carry State With Florida Gov DeSantis signing the state’s Constitutional Carry bill into law today, 26 states now have Constitutional Carry laws, representing 64% of US's land & 42% of the pop. #2a #GunControl







