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Active Shooter Statistics Change Depending on Who’s Counting - Nevada News and Views (opens the original)
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How often does an armed citizen stop an active shooter? You would think that would be an easy question to answer. It isn’t. The FBI has studied active-shooter attacks for years. So has Dr. John R. Lott Jr. and the Crime Prevention Research Center, which he heads. For the years 2014 through 2025, Lott says the FBI identified 408 active-shooter incidents. According to his count of the FBI reports, armed citizens stopped 16 of them, or about 4 percent.¹ The Crime Prevention Research Center came up
What If Social Security Had Invested in America? - Nevada News and Views (opens the original)
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Here’s a question I had never given much thought to until recently: Why doesn’t Social Security invest some of its money in the American stock market? Millions of Americans invest retirement savings in stocks. Private pension funds do it. State and local government retirement systems do it. Its trust-fund reserves are invested in interest-bearing securities backed by the federal government. They are extremely safe. But Social Security consequently has not participated directly in the higher long
If Lake Mead Keeps Falling, Will Las Vegas Run Out of Electricity? - Nevada News and Views (opens the original)
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I’ve lived in Las Vegas for 25 years, and lately I’ve been thinking more seriously about something most of us would rather not think about. The Colorado River Basin has now been suffering through a drought lasting more than a quarter-century. Conditions became even worse in 2026. In August, the Bureau of Reclamation reported that Lake Mead had reached a record-low elevation.¹ The bathtub ring around Lake Mead has become part of the Southern Nevada landscape. We hear constantly about water shorta
How Often Do Americans Use Guns in Self-Defense? - Nevada News and Views (opens the original)
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How often do Americans use firearms to defend themselves or others? It sounds like a straightforward question. It isn't. Estimates of defensive gun use in the United States vary enormously depending on how researchers define a defensive use, whom they survey, what questions they ask and how the data are collected. Economist and firearms researcher Dr. John R. Lott Jr. raised the issue again in a September 11 RealClearPolitics commentary titled “CDC Undercounts Defensive Gun Uses.” Lott argues th
More Voters Say They Are Carrying Concealed Handguns - Nevada News and Views (opens the original)
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A new national survey commissioned by the Crime Prevention Research Center reports that nearly one-third of the general-election voters questioned carry a concealed handgun at least occasionally. That is an interesting finding, and it suggests that concealed carry is becoming an increasingly normal part of American life. It also deserves to be reported accurately, because the numbers are impressive enough without stretching them.¹ McLaughlin & Associates surveyed 1,000 general-election voters on
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