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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.
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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%.
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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
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@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:
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An ROTC student said the hero football coach could have stopped the shooter if he had his firearm
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Concealed handguns used by civilians to stop crimes a dozen times over the last few weeks
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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.
#2a
#guns
#gun
#assaultweaponban
#AWB
#massshootings
#GunControlNow
#guncontrol
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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. ➡️
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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”
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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
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Gun control doesn't work in Mexico, why would it work here in the U.S.?
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@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
See also largest survey of researchers
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Dr. John Lott DESTROYS gun control bill before the Oregon state Senate Judiciary Committee:
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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
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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
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#MediaBias
: “Almost 80% of Americans, and 92% of Rs, think crime has gone up. It actually fell in 2023.” The media notes the historically large drop in murder from 2022 to 2023, but ignores the even bigger increase that occurred between 2019 & 2020.
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@NMPGVnow
You broke a gun control law that you pushed to have passed.
You violated ATF regulations, and then gave those guns to minors when they were not properly destroyed.
We are not here, judging people for what they choose to do with their guns.
We are holding you accountable for
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Gifford’s claim is false.
“California’s per capita rate of mass public shootings was 43% higher than the rate in Texas and 29% higher than in the rest of the United States. Since 2020, the rate in California is 276% higher than in Texas and 100% higher than in the rest of the
NEW: Over the last 30 years, California has become THE national leader on gun safety.
From 1993 to 2019, CA's gun homicide rate fell by two-thirds — dropping more than twice as much as the rest of the country.
Learn how they did it in our new report 👇
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Miranda’s organization
@NMPGVnow
broke a gun control law that they pushed to have passed(private transfers without background checks).
They violated ATF regulations, and then gave those functional weapons to minors when they were not properly destroyed.
We are not here judging
We find it ironic that John Lott's organization thinks it is the government's job to intervene in the lives of law abiding gun owners and tell them what they can and cannot do with their weapons.
#Farmington9
Happy to send a copy of the constitution.
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It is illegal in New Mexico to take possession of firearms, regardless of the intended use, in a private transfer without a background check.
Pictured are unwanted firearms from one household in Farmington, NM. Our gun buyback was cancelled by the City, but local residents asked us to show up anyway. So, we spent today dismantling guns house by house.
#GunsToGardens
@vivarioarriba
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MYTH: “When we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. When the law expired, mass shootings tripled.”
— Joe Biden, Tuesday, May 24, 2022.
FACT: There has been a lot of research on the assault weapon ban, and even work paid for by the Clinton administration was
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@JohnFeinblatt
It is a hardship, and it can be deadly to ask women to wait a few days to a firearm.
'No one helped her': NJ woman murdered by ex while awaiting gun permit
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Facts don't lie. More lawful gun owners = less gun crime.
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New FBI report claims that 8% of active shooter attacks during 2014-17 were stopped or mitigated by concealed handgun permit holders, but misses at least half the cases.
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Texas 'licensed-to-carry' bystander shot El Paso mall shooter as he targeted more would-be victims
El Paso, Texas police say a permitted bystander shot the suspect in a mall shooting on Wednesday, which was the result of a confrontation between 2 gangs.
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Newsweek: Voting Fraud with Mail-in Ballots Is a Real Concern. Just Look Around the World
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84 Congressmen want to keep the ability to carry concealed handguns in the Capitol
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False. Guns are not the number one cause of death of children
Read the FACTS here:
@CrimeResearch1
The Republican mass proliferation of guns now has caused GUN VIOLENCE to be the
#1
cause of death of children.
#RepublicanGunCrisis
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@JoeBiden
makes false statement after another on guns.
- "Vast majority of Americans support, including a majority of gun owners"
- "guns are the number one killer of children in the United States"
"More than car accidents"
#2A
It’s time for Congress to enact universal background checks.
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New Concealed Carry Report for 2019: 18.66 million permit holders despite 16 Constitutional Carry States, over 1.4 million more than last year
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Chicago armed robbery thwarted as gun owner with concealed-carry permit kills suspect
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Gabby Giffords clearly calls for banning all guns
“No more guns,” she says.
Ambler, her aide and adviser, tries to clarify that she means no more gun violence, but Giffords is clear about what she’s saying. “No, no, no,” she says. “Lord, no.” She pauses another 32 seconds.
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Biden is withholding funding from schools with hunting, archery programs.
Forbidding federal funding for schools with hunting or archery classes will end those classes. How eliminating hunter safety classes make people safer? Nor will it help wildlife
#2a
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UPDATED: Compiling Cases where concealed handgun permit holders have stopped likely mass public shootings
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This is simply not true.
Car accidents are the leading causes of children aged 18 and under.
The number of firearm deaths changed when the government manipulated the CDC’s data and reclassified ADULTS aged 18-20 as children to skew their statistics.
Read more about the real
Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children and teens in the US. This year 229 children and 1082 teens have died with far more injured.
We refuse to accept this as normal and won't stop fighting to give kids a future free from gun violence.
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A cost of releasing prisoners: "Florida inmate freed amid coronavirus concerns murdered man one day after release," second degree murder with a firearm and resisting an officer.
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Dr. John Lott takes on the Texas House Select Committee on Community Safety on gun control!
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Understanding Marginal Deterrence: Detroit man facing charges of murdering his parents, an ex, and accused of torture was released after posting $10,000 bail, while released he murdered another person
#bail
#bailreform
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FACT: The majority (67%) of firearm deaths are actually suicides.
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A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked President Biden's new regulations on pistols with stabilizing braces in response to a lawsuit from gun rights activists.
#2A
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Watch Nikki Goeser's full brave testimony here:
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These are simply the facts. Head to for our research & data.
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No, banning "
#assaultweapons
" won't stop shootings like the one that happened at
#MSU
. Dr. John Lott breaks it down:
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How bad is crime in Los Angeles?: Crime is causing the USPS to suspend mail delivery in a neighborhood where the median family home is worth between $750,000 and $1 million
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“Twenty states currently allow teachers and staff to carry guns to varying degrees on school property.
There has yet to be a single case of someone being wounded or killed from a shooting, let alone a mass public shooting.”
Read the full article below:
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UPDATED: 22 State Capitols Officially Allow, soon to be 23 (And At Least 4 Others Allow In Practice), Some Form Of Legal Firearm Carry
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Moms Demand has blocked us. Guns are not the number one killer of children in America.
They do not like being held accountable for spreading false information.
Read the facts here:
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Exhaustive Study: Murder Rates Rise Every Place that Bans Guns
#2A
#GunControlNow
#GunControl
#NRA
@NRA
@Everytown
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A gun-free zone in a country where private ownership of a gun is almost impossible.
Several gunmen burst into a big concert hall in Moscow on Friday and fired automatic weapons at the crowd, injuring an unspecified number of people and starting a massive blaze . . . The attack
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Mass Public Shooting at Indianapolis Mall Stopped by 22-year-old man legally carrying a gun
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Defensive Gun Uses Where People Legally Carrying Concealed Guns Have Stopped Crime, Cases From Mid to Late November 2019
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As the pictures above show, no explanation was provided by Twitter for why they locked Lott's account.
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@K12ssdb
, explain why there are NO school shootings where anyone has been killed or wounded in school attacks during school hours where teachers are allowed to carry guns. Thousands of schools are in 20 states,but can you point to such attacks?
#2A
#guns
When the Pulse Nightclub shooting finally ended, 11 SWAT officers fired 150 rounds. 8 of those bullets struck the perpetrator.
That's a 5% accuracy rate for highly trained officers with ~3 hours of prep time before going inside.
How well is an armed teacher going to do?
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These research numbers really put things into perspective.
Why do we hear so much about these self-inflicted gun deaths when euthanasia is even more popular right across the border?
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Nearly 90% of suspects arrested on gun charges in NYC were released, shootings surge by 96%. Surprised?
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“Gun control groups claim California has the country’s strictest gun control laws, but it shouldn’t hold itself out as a model for the rest of the country to follow.
California’s per capita rate of mass public shootings has consistently exceeded that of the rest of the
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@JudiciaryDems
This is not true.
The definition of a child has been changed to add ADULTS 18-20, and leaving out infants up until age 1, therefore manipulating the statistics, which then include gang violence.
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This is not true.
Guns are NOT the leading cause of death for children-and adding ADULTS 18-20 to manipulate the numbers doesn’t change that.
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This study might shock you: most of the country is safe! Democrat-run urban cities with the strictest gun laws are the most dangerous.
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Actually, the U.S. is well below the world average in terms of the number of mass public shootings, and the global increase over time has been much bigger than for the United States.
If more guns in more places made us safer, we'd be the safest country in the world.
But we're clearly not. Our elected officials must take immediate action to build safer communities and save lives.
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With all the concern about assault weapons, how has the share of murders with rifles changed over time?
#gun
#guns
#awb
#assaultweapons
#AssaultWeaponsBan
#guncontrol
#GunControlNow
#murders
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Challenge to all gun control advocates: explain this.
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Want to see that the FBI conveniently “missed”?
The link below is CPRC’s current list of active shooting cases that were averted by people legally carrying guns that were missed in the FBI Active Shooting reports.
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There has been a lot of research on the assault weapon ban, and even work paid for by the Clinton administration was unable to find any benefits from the law, including any reduction in any type of violent crime or mass public shootings.
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The so-called "white supremacist" Hispanic mass murderer from the Allen, Texas mall has praised the transgender Nashville Christian School murderer.
This is not the "right-wing" attack the media is making it out to be.
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Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 33 Cases During July 2022
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Major Decision: Federal Judge rules Federal Law Banning Gun Possession in U.S. Post Offices are Unconstitutional
#2A
#gunfreezone
#gunfreezones
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With all the concern about assault weapons, how has the share of murders with rifles changed over time?
#gun
#guns
#awb
#assaultweapons
#AssaultWeaponsBan
#guncontrol
#GunControlNow
#murders
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Major New Research on School Safety: Schools that Allow Teachers to Carry Guns haven't seen school shootings during school hours
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@Everytown
94% of mass shootings happen in gun-free zones.
If they’re gun-free zones, how did thrse shootings happen?
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@WinsomeSears
is exactly right that banning guns for law-abiding citizens isn’t going to stop drug gangs from getting weapons.
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Would be Mass Public Shooter Stopped by an Employee with a Concealed Handgun Permit
On Friday, June 23rd, 2023, an employee at Turnberry Towers near Karen and Paradise shot a gunman who walked in and fired shots at the front desk. Fortunately, an employee at the building with a
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Gun control supporter says he went on a bloody rampage to push for stronger gun control laws.
Read more here:
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94% of mass shootings occur in gun free zones.
Learn more about how the FBI’s misleading data about mass shootings, and gun free zones here:
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UPDATED: Compiling Cases where concealed handgun permit holders have stopped mass public shootings and other mass attacks
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94% of mass shootings happen in gun-free zones.
Just hours ago,
@SenateDems
tried to pass three gun safety bills in the Senate.
Now, UNLV students are sheltering in place due to a shooting on campus.
Republicans keep blocking progress and people keep dying. Enough is enough.
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Dr. John Lott talked to Ann Coulter about our latest report on mass public shootings. They also covered a wide range of topics, including school shootings, media bias on guns, defensive gun use, mass public shootings around the world, etc. See also Dr. Lott’s new op-ed at Real
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Nearly 90% of suspects arrested on gun charges in NYC were released, shootings surge by 96%. Surprised?
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@cathnjrn
@beSMARTforkids
False. Safe storage laws make it more difficult for people to defend themselves their families.
Here’s the proof:
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Op-ed WaPo: With the Virginia Special Legislative Session next week: Why Virginia needs to get rid of gun-free zones
"The media’s unbalanced reporting of shootings comes at a great cost to society"
#2A
@NRA
#NRA
#concealedcarry
#DGU
#GunFreeZone
#GFZ
#GFZs
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Fun Fact: Guns are NOT the number one killer of children in America, and moving the goal post to add ADULTS 18-20 to the statistics doesn’t change that.
Any idea what is the actual number one killer of children on America?
This is why I’m running for Congress. I’m also a survivor of a mass school shooting. Guns are the number one killer of children in America.
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Responding to George Will’s misleading column on the Supreme Court’s recent gun control decision
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Research shows that despite what legacy media and gun control supporters tell you, over 60% of active shooter incidents are thwarted by a citizen legally carrying a firearm.
Going to Walmart to pick-up a $.79/pound turkey? You might get randomly shot by a suicidal man.
That's just life in America.
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Do states with stricter gun control laws have fewer gun deaths? No. Do they have fewer homicides and suicides? Definitely, no.
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MUST READ: Study finds that people support gun control less when they find out what the laws actually mean.
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Media: “Red states have a much higher number of violent crimes committed with guns than Blue states”
CRPC: “Not do much”
Read the FACTS here:
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An armed society is a polite society.
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Do countries with more guns have more deaths?
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As shootings and crime climb dramatically, Gun permit requests by New Yorkers soared by 216%, but the rate that permits were approved fell by 81%
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CPRC President Dr. John Lott has been dropping TRUTH BOMBS lately after Democrats have tried to use the MSU shooting for their gun control narrative.
WATCH:
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The state of Maine had the legal means to prevent the recent tragic mass shooting, but failed to use it.
Why isn’t there more conversation about the failure of the system, rather than pushing for more gun control laws?
Read more here:
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Things that make you wonder about what else we are being mislead to believe about guns and crime...
Read our president Dr. John Lott's congressional testimony for the full run-down:
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