New data shows that in the state of New York, a self-designated sanctuary state, illegal immigrants make up only 3.38% to 4.15% of the state’s population. Yet, when compared to the number of illegals who are incarcerated, they are overrepresented in prison and jail populations by a factor of roughly 3 to 4 times.
John Lott, president of Crime Prevention Research Center, spoke to Just The News. and noted, “Illegals are committing crimes at higher rates than other groups are, because they’re over represented…these are crimes like murder, rape.”
Furthermore, the Empire State has, according to the Department of Homeland Security, released 6,947 illegal immigrants since January 20 of this year, while still holding roughly 7,100 such individuals in its prisons and jails. These incarcerated illegal aliens account for approximately 14% of the total prison population of approximately 50,803, despite comprising only 3.20% to 3.38% of the state’s overall population of about 19.99 million.
Lott also commented on the illegal alien population discrepancies and warned, “I think they’ve underestimated those numbers, but even if it’s twice that, even if it’s 6% or even if it’s three times that – 9% – it’s still significantly less than their share of the prison and jail populations.” . . .
The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) published the findings of a recent study that showed armed civilians are significantly more likely to stop a mass shooter than police.
Unfortunately, there will likely be even more mass deaths in Australia because its government doesn’t want to allow its people to defend themselves. The same could be said of many American government officials. Fortunately, the Second Amendment has at least somewhat kept the anti-gunners from forcing the public to be defenseless. . . .
You want a stunning fact backed up by statistics?
Who stops mass shootings more often, police or armed citizens?
Turns out it’s not the men and women in uniform who get it done, and that should not surprise you.
Dr John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center published a study using the FBI’s own numbers.
It shows average citizens stop the violence.
That should not surprise you.
City Councils cave in to Antifa/BLM mobs in the streets and defunded police.
Voters elected District Attorneys who refuse to prosecute violent crime.
Politicians decided accused criminals should go free on NO bail so they can hunt more victims.
Meantime, 29 states…the majority…now allow citizens to carry a gun with no permit. Tens of millions of Americans legally carry a gun every day.
So, when there’s a mass shooting incident and seconds count, the police are minutes away…but often, but law-abiding citizens are right there.
The CPRC study shows 48 percent of mass shootings are stopped by armed citizens, not the cops, whose political masters have tied their hands.
Who’s the first responder now?
The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) has just released its 2025 Concealed Carry report, and while the numbers are down, the figure is deceiving because of the increase of permitless (“constitutional”) carry in 29 states. . . .
The report acknowledges the number of permit holders fell by 0.59 million, for an estimated total of 20.88 million citizens who are licensed to carry. But the CPRC quickly notes, “The primary reason for the decrease is that permit numbers tend to drop gradually in Constitutional Carry states, even though it is evident that more people are legally carrying.”
Among the findings: . . .
“In the Ohio case, the convenience store employee had the gun at her workplace, so concealed-carry laws didn’t apply. In the California case, the state required a permit, but there is no evidence that the individual had a permit,” noted John Lott, president and founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center.
The Wall Street Journal article, however, does not quote Lott, even though he often writes for the paper’s opinion pages. Instead, it focuses on quoting gun-control advocates. One of whom claims that: “When untrained or panicked shooters miss their target, it’s children, neighbors and bystanders who pay the price.”
But this claim does not hold up. To examine the issue more directly, the Crime Prevention Research Center searched news reports and compiled a list of cases from the past decade in which concealed-carry permit holders accidentally shot an innocent bystander. They also collected cases in which people legally carrying guns in public used them to stop crimes.
“All together there were four cases from 2016 through nearly all of 2025. One listed incident involved a security guard, who arguably should not be counted,” reported Lott. “From 2016 to 2025, including the security-guard case, permit holders accidentally shot five bystanders—two killed and three wounded. Excluding the security guard, permit holders shot three bystanders—two killed and one wounded.”
Those instances are statistically tiny when compared to 1.67 million instances of armed citizens using their guns for self-defense, mostly without firing a shot.
Lott also said they reviewed police incidents from 2016 to 2025 and found 20 cases in which officers accidentally shot a total of 28 bystanders—6 were killed and 22 wounded.
“Overall, police accidentally wounded 5.6 times as many bystanders as civilians (including the security-guard case), killed three times as many, and wounded seven times as many. Excluding the security guard, police shot seven times more bystanders, killed three times more, and wounded 22 times more,” determined Lott.
This destroys the narrative that “untrained” civilians are a problem that needs government solutions to solve. (The NRA, of course, does a lot to give Americans training options.)
This Journal article also ignores the basic fact that concealed-carry permit holders are also extremely law-abiding. “Police rarely commit crimes, but concealed handgun permit holders are even more law-abiding, facing a conviction rate for firearms offenses that is just 1/12th the rate of police convictions,” noted Lott. . . .
Frank Miniter, “The Truth About Armed Citizens,” America’s 1st Freedom, December 16, 2025.
Even so, nearly 47% of Americans live somewhere where they don’t need a permit to carry a firearm.
A new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) on concealed carry in the U.S. reveals that 46.8 percent of Americans now live in “Constitutional Carry” states—there are 29 of them—where no license or permit is required, while Congress is mulling H.R. 38, the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, and anti-gunners are in a panic.
The report was prepared by John R. Lott, CPRC founder and CEO; Carlisle E. Moody, College of William & Mary – Department of Economics and CPRC associate, and Rujun Wang.
Is that really true, though? According to a 2020 study by Dr. John Lott, head of the Crime Prevention Research Center:
Over the 20 years from 1998 to 2017, our list contains 2,772 attacks and at least 5,764 shooters outside the United States and 62 attacks and 66 shooters within our country. By our count, the US makes up less than 1.13% of the mass public shooters, 1.77% of their murders, and 2.19% of their attacks. All these are much less than the US’s 4.6% share of the world population. Attacks in the US are not only less frequent than other countries, they are also much less deadly on average. Out of the 101 countries where we have identified mass public shootings occurring, the United States ranks 66th in the per capita frequency of these attacks and 56th in the murder rate. . . .
Cam Edwards, “After Brown Shooting, a Rush to Blame Guns,” Bearing Arms, December 15, 2025.
Wall Street Journal reporter Mark Maremont continues his attacks on people carrying concealed handguns (this titled “The Innocent Bystanders Caught in Deadly Crossfire of Self-Defense Shootings“). Previously we tried writing letters to the WSJ pointing out legal errors and data problems with an earlier piece he had. Now Maremont has another piece claiming there are four examples from 2022 to now of people legally carry a concealed handgun who accidentally shot a bystander when they fired their guns in self defense.
Not only does he fail to provide any perspective for this with 1.67 million Americans using guns defensively each year or that 21 million Americans have a concealed handgun permit, but only two of the four examples actually fit the storyline Maremont is pushing (a case in Massachusetts and another in Michigan). The Ohio case involved an employee with a gun at work so there is no issue of concealed carry. The other case from California doesn’t appear to involve someone with a concealed handgun permit. While Maremont’s article discusses Constitutional Carry, none of the four cases he discusses involve Constitutional Carry. . . .
