{"id":2600,"date":"2023-12-01T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2023-12-01T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T14:14:00","slug":"lott-eliminating-gun-free-zones-would-reduce-mass-shootings-and-saves-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2600","title":{"rendered":"Lott: Eliminating &#8216;Gun-Free&#8217; Zones Would Reduce Mass Shootings and Saves Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shutterstock_2112144602-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"Shutterstock\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shutterstock_2112144602-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shutterstock_2112144602-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shutterstock_2112144602-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shutterstock_2112144602-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shutterstock_2112144602-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shutterstock_2112144602-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shutterstock_2112144602-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shutterstock_2112144602-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shutterstock_2112144602-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shutterstock_2112144602-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shutterstock_2112144602-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shutterstock_2112144602-560x373.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"No guns allowed sign gun-free gun free zone\" title=\"No guns allowed sign gun-free gun free zone\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>It isn\u2019t surprising that people will miss cases or occasionally misidentify them, though the sheer number of missing cases involving defensive gun uses is startling. The\u202fFBI was unwilling to change its figures when I pointed out my findings\u00a0when I was at the Department of Justice\u00a0or\u00a0earlier.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>My organization, the Crime Prevention Research Center, has continued this work and spent only a few thousand dollars\u00a0(compared to\u00a0millions\u00a0spent by the FBI)\u00a0and\u00a0found an additional 138 cases, plus five more that were misclassified.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Instead of 14 of 302 active shooting attacks being stopped, we found that 157 out of 440 were stopped. That\u2019s a rate of 35.7 percent. We found a rate of 41.3 percent for 2022 cases, and that goes up still further to 63.5 percent when gun-free zones are excluded.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>A\u00a0recent piece\u00a0in The Hill by gun control advocate Devin Hughes (who incorrectly calls me a \u201cformer researcher\u201d) claims that a\u00a0recent study\u00a0I co-authored \u201cmade a startling statistical admission . . .\u00a0 no longer finding that more guns resulted in less crime.\u201d In fact, traditional fixed-effects estimates show statistically significant results. And with new difference-in-difference estimates there is a clear, statistically significant downward trend after right-to-carry laws are adopted, and looking at results only for individual years where there are fewer observations in any particular year would reach that conclusion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Most empirical studies that I\u2019ve reviewed support my original findings. The ones that don\u2019t\u202foverwhelmingly\u202ftake the mistaken approach of looking only at later years. They implicitly assume that the states that adopted concealed handgun laws most recently are issuing more concealed handgun permits. In fact, the earlier-adopting states are still issuing more permits than the recent adopters.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>A recent survey by Arthur Berg, Gary Mauser and I shows that most\u202fresearchers\u00a0who have published peer-reviewed empirical research on gun control believe that eliminating gun-free zones and allowing people to carry concealed handguns would reduce both mass public shootings and murder.\u202f\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014 \u200b\u200bJohn R. Lott, Jr. in <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/criminal-justice\/4333535-good-guys-with-guns-save-lives-dont-believe-the-hype\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Good Guys With Guns Save Lives. Don\u2019t Believe the Hype.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/lott-eliminating-gun-free-zones-would-reduce-mass-shootings-and-saves-lives\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shutterstock Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 It isn\u2019t surprising that people will miss cases or occasionally misidentify them, though the sheer number of missing cases involving defensive gun uses is startling. The\u202fFBI was unwilling to change its figures when I pointed out my findings\u00a0when I was at the Department of Justice\u00a0or\u00a0earlier.\u00a0 My organization, the Crime Prevention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}