http://tinyurl.com/jl5otkv (Great video at this link)
CPRC’s Testimony before the Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee on four bills dealing with eliminating gun-free zones
11 Feb , 2016
On Tuesday, February 9th, CPRC President John Lott testified on four bills seeking to limit gun-free zones (SB 1559 (Senator Mike Bell), SB 1736 (Senator Delores Gresham), SB 1991 (Judiciary Committee Chairman Kelsey), and SB 2376 (Senator Mike Bell)). The video of Lott’s testimony is well worth watching and it provided powerful evidence on how killers plan these attacks and how mass public shooters are attracted to these targets. Lott began his testimony with a case in Detroit, Michigan that had just become public the day before where an ISIS sympathizer had planned to attack one of the largest churches in the Detroit area because “people are not allowed to carry guns in church.” Other cases that he discussed are available here. For those who don’t want to buy Lott’s books, an early discussion of Lott’s work with the University of Chicago’s Bill Landes on mass public shootings from 1977 to 1999 is available here (more up-to-date information is available in Chapter 6 of The Bias Against Guns and to a lesser extent in Chapter 10 of More Guns, Less Crime). A list of mass public shootings at universities from 1992 through June 2014 is available here (a graph of K-12 school fatalities and the sources for that data over the same period is also available there). Finally, a discussion of the rate of shootings in gun-free zones is available here.
CPRC’s Testimony before the Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee on four bills dealing with eliminating gun-free zones
11 Feb , 2016
On Tuesday, February 9th, CPRC President John Lott testified on four bills seeking to limit gun-free zones (SB 1559 (Senator Mike Bell), SB 1736 (Senator Delores Gresham), SB 1991 (Judiciary Committee Chairman Kelsey), and SB 2376 (Senator Mike Bell)). The video of Lott’s testimony is well worth watching and it provided powerful evidence on how killers plan these attacks and how mass public shooters are attracted to these targets. Lott began his testimony with a case in Detroit, Michigan that had just become public the day before where an ISIS sympathizer had planned to attack one of the largest churches in the Detroit area because “people are not allowed to carry guns in church.” Other cases that he discussed are available here. For those who don’t want to buy Lott’s books, an early discussion of Lott’s work with the University of Chicago’s Bill Landes on mass public shootings from 1977 to 1999 is available here (more up-to-date information is available in Chapter 6 of The Bias Against Guns and to a lesser extent in Chapter 10 of More Guns, Less Crime). A list of mass public shootings at universities from 1992 through June 2014 is available here (a graph of K-12 school fatalities and the sources for that data over the same period is also available there). Finally, a discussion of the rate of shootings in gun-free zones is available here.