On Friday morning’s The National Report on Newsmax, reporter Jason Mattera presented a piece highlighting evidence that the mass shooter in Minneapolis chose to target a school in part because it was a gun-free zone, citing the Crime Prevention Research Center’s Dr. John Lott.
After recalling the reflexive demand for more gun control by both journalists and Democrats, Mattera informed viewers of the rarely reported fact that mass shooters sometimes openly admit in their manifestos that they chose to target a place where guns were banned because it would be easier to kill a large number of defenseless people. The reporter began:
Yes, progressives, right out of the gate — Jacob Frey, Amy Klobuchar, members of the legacy media — they were saying, “Skip the thoughts and prayers — we need gun action now.” But what if the way to stop these school massacres is to read the killer’s own words. That means look at their manifestos and see why they chose the targets.
Then came a clip of Dr. Lott: “How much more explicit can they be than saying they want to go to a place where their victims aren’t armed so they can go and kill more people?”
The report then got to the problem of the media hiding the truth from the public:
MATTERA: John Lott at the Crime Prevention Research Center says the why isn’t mysterious. Attackers like the Minneapolis trans shooter pick easy marks where they can run up a body count before anyone can fire back.
LOTT: If the media even once in a while would quote these parts of their manifestos and diaries, the entire gun control debate that we have right now would be dramatically different. People would be focusing on getting rid of the gun-free zones.
Mattera soon related that the Minneapolis killer wrote about the Aurora gunman from 2012 choosing a gun-free zone for his target, and then admitted that he had chosen a school for the same reason:
For instance, according to Lott, the Minneapolis trans killer wrote in his manifesto that the Aurora movie theater shooter in 2012, quote, “may have chosen venues that were gun-free zones. I probably aim the same way,” adding that he wants to make — wanted to make sure his victims would be unarmed. “That’s why I and others like schools so much.”
The piece went on to show a clip of Dr. Lott recalling evidence that the thousands of schools that arm their staff never have any deadly shootings during school hours, which can be also be accessed on the Crime Prevention Research Center’s website. . . .
The day after a trans shooter opened fire on a Minneapolis Catholic school, Breitbart News pointed to a Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) report noting that the attacker sought out a gun-free zone on purpose. In his manifesto, the trans shooter made clear he wanted to attack a place where people would be “unarmed” as they were when James Holmes attacked a gun-free movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, in 2012. . . .
A report from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) issued Wednesday highlighted the Minneapolis trans shooter’s desire to follow in the footsteps of mass shooters James Holmes and Adam Lanza by attacking unarmed people.
James Holmes is the gunman who opened fire in a gun-free movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, on July 20, 2012, killing 12 and injuring dozens. Adam Lanza carried out the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, killing 28 people including himself and injuring two others.
CPRC used its report demonstrate that the trans attacker who allegedly shot and killed two children at Annunciation Catholic school and wounded many others wanted gun-free victims, like the ones Holmes and Lanza shot. . . .
There is vastly more violent crime being reported now than when the baby boomers were reaching adulthood, and there is good reason to believe that the widely quoted FBI numbers have been increasingly undercounted for at least two decades, as John Lott and his team at the Crime Prevention Research Center have documented: . . .
John Lott Jr. (1998) empirically demonstrates that increased legal gun ownership is correlated with reduced crime. . . . United States: Increased legal gun ownership correlated with decreased crime (Lott Jr., 1998). . . . Legally owned weapons are not a symbol of violence, but of legitimate resistance to state failure. Civilian disarmament, by targeting only honest citizens, proves to be an ineffective and unfair public policy. As John Lott Jr. stated: “Crime doesn’t decrease when citizens are disarmed. It simply changes targets.”
John Lott Jr. (1998) demonstra empiricamente que o aumento da posse legal de armas está correlacionado à redução da criminalidade. . . . Estados Unidos: aumento da posse legal de armas correlacionado à queda da criminalidade (Lott Jr., 1998). . . .A arma legal não é símbolo de violência, mas de resistência legítima à falência estatal. O desarmamento civil, ao atingir apenas os cidadãos honestos, revela-se uma política pública ineficaz e injusta. Como afirmou John Lott Jr.: “A criminalidade não diminui quando se desarma o cidadão. Ela apenas muda de alvo.” . . . LOTT JR., John R. More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. . . .
Dr. John Lott and Rep. Thomas Massie acknowledge a reality that blood-dancing Democrats don’t want Americans to be exposed to.
Earlier this year, the Crime Prevention Research Center published a report challenging the popular anti-gunner myth that armed civilians don’t stop active shooters. Researchers analyzed 512 active shooter incidents between 2014 and 2023, showing that a “good guy with a gun” were more effective at stopping would-be mass shooters than members of law enforcement.
The study revealed that “according to police, armed citizens have stopped 57 active shooter events which otherwise were likely to have escalated into mass public shootings” and that “armed citizens reduce the number of people killed by 49 percent while police increase the number killed by 16 percent.”
This is largely because an armed individual who is already on the scene of an active shooter incident have more opportunities to stop the assailant. Conversely, police cannot act against an active shooter until they arrive on scene. Within that period of time, an active shooter can claim significant numbers of casualties before they are stopped.
The truth is that having more responsible gun owners around can save far more lives than gun control laws aimed at making it harder for these folks to arm themselves. Study after study has shown that gun owners are more likely to use their firearms to protect themselves or others than to commit a crime. It’s an inconvenient fact for anti-gunners. However, it is one of the only realistic ways to protect the lives of schoolchildren. . . .
In the wake of the shooting at the Church of the Annunciation, though, that will hopefully change. As Dr. John Lott pointed out in a post at Crime Prevention Research Center’s website, the killer specifically said he wanted to target a gun-free zone since there would be less likelihood of an armed response, chillingly writing “That’s why I and many others like schools so much.”
Lott has provided strong evidence that the monsters who engage in these types of attacks often seek out places where their victims are unlikely to be armed, and research from Purdue University’s Homeland Security Institute suggests that the fastest way to stop an active assailant attack at a school is to have both a school resource office on hand who can seek out and engage the attacker, along with armed teachers who can shelter in place with their students and defend them in case the killer breaches the classroom door. . . .
In fact, Dr. John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), has been explaining for years that many mass murderers intentionally gravitate toward so-called “gun-free” zones because they know they cause maximum damage without being confronted by someone with a firearm.
“They know if they go to a place where their victims are defenseless, they’re going to be able to go and kill more people and get more media attention,” Lott recently told Fox News. . . .
