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Pro-life groups and individuals have faced an astronomically higher number of incidents of violence than their pro-abortion counterparts since the leak of the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization andsubsequentruling that the U.S. Constitution does not contain a right to abortion, according to a new report.
A report released Monday by the Crime Prevention Research Center identified 135 attacks on pro-life individuals and entities since Politico’s May 2 publication of the draft opinion in Dobbs. By contrast, the report listed just six examples of violence against pro-abortion individuals and entities. The research determined that pro-life groups and activists found themselves subject to 22 times more violence than their pro-abortion counterparts.
The report examines all incidents of violence that occurred between May 2 and Sept. 24. The list includes a lot of overlap with three separate lists of attacks on churches and pro-life pregnancy centers compiled by The Christian Post. These attacks ranged from defacing property with pro-abortion graffiti to fire-bombings that resulted in much more extensive damage.
The most recent incident of violence included on The Christian Post’s third list of attacks on pro-life organizations occurred in October at Church of the Resurrection in Lansing, Michigan, after the time period the CPRC looked at for its report. . . . .
A Montana district judge ordered Missoula County Monday to keep electronic surveillance video footage of ballot sorting areas during the 2022 midterm elections.
According to the order, the video must be findable for possible future requests under the Freedom of Information Act.
Crime Prevention Research Center’s Dr. John Lott, the Election Integrity Project and America’s First Legal filed the lawsuit in September.
Missoula County filed an opposition against the injunction in October, but Montana 4th District Judge John W. Larson made the order. . . .
There have been 22 times more attacks against pro-life groups since the leak in early May of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade compared to attacks on pro-choice organizations, new data show.
“The overwhelming narrative in the media is the claim those on the right are responsible for most of the politically motivated violence in the U.S. It has been a theme in the news media after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision was leaked, with many claiming that there was disproportionate violence against pro-choice providers. But a review of cases shows over 22 times more violence against pro-life advocates,” John Lott, the founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), told Fox News Digital on Monday.
Following the unprecedented leak on May 2 detailing that the Supreme Court had a majority of justices ready to overturn Roe v. Wade, headlines warned that pro-choice supporters and organizations would likely face an increase in attacks. A report from the National Abortion Federation found there was an increase in attacks against pro-choice organizations and supporters in 2021, which experts projected would only get worse following the Roe leak and the eventual confirmation that the nation’s highest court effectively ended the recognition of abortion as a constitutional right.
Though the data show there were a handful of attacks from May 3 to Sept. 24 of this year against pro-choice groups and supporters, the number was dwarfed by attacks against pro-life centers. . . .
There have been 22 times more attacks against pro-life groups since the leak in early May of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade compared to attacks on pro-choice organizations, new data show.
“The overwhelming narrative in the media is the claim those on the right are responsible for most of the politically motivated violence in the U.S. It has been a theme in the news media after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision was leaked, with many claiming that there was disproportionate violence against pro-choice providers. But a review of cases shows over 22 times more violence against pro-life advocates,” John Lott, the founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), told Fox News Digital on Monday.
Following the unprecedented leak on May 2 detailing that the Supreme Court had a majority of justices ready to overturn Roe v. Wade, headlines warned that pro-choice supporters and organizations would likely face an increase in attacks. A report from the National Abortion Federation found there was an increase in attacks against pro-choice organizations and supporters in 2021, which experts projected would only get worse following the Roe leak and the eventual confirmation that the nation’s highest court effectively ended the recognition of abortion as a constitutional right.
Though the data show there were a handful of attacks from May 3 to Sept. 24 of this year against pro-choice groups and supporters, the number was dwarfed by attacks against pro-life centers. . . .
The media has got it all wrong.
A study from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) confirmed that there have been 135 attacks against pro-life groups from May-September 2022 and only six on abortion groups. The group concluded that there are 22 times as many attacks on pro-life groups than pro-abort groups but the media still paints life-affirmers as the antagonists.
Since the Dobbs v. Jackson opinion draft was leaked back in May, there have been a myriad attacks against pro-life groups. Whether it’s fire bombing pregnancy centers, smashing windows of churches, adding obscenities and threatening graffiti messages on sidewalks, or throwing red paint across the exterior of life-affirming organizations, pro-life groups have been under eminent threat.
“The bottom line is that after the Dobbs decision was leaked, there was over 22 times more violence directed against pro-life groups than pro-choice organizations. However, if the media is less likely to cover violence pro-life organizations, the 22 times estimate will underestimate the relative violence against these groups,” CPRC noted in its study.
The group is right. The media barely covers attacks on pro-life groups but makes it top priority when pro-abort groups feel “threatened.” Here are some headlines CPRC mentioned in its study from the pro-abort left.
“People want me dead’: abortion providers fear violence after Roe overturned”
“Abortion providers face significant increase in violence, report finds”
“Abortion Clinic Escorts Say Work Is Becoming a ‘War Zone”
The media paints abortion activists as the victims when they’re the ones facilitating most violence — that done to innocent babies.
One pro-lifer was arrested in front of his wife and children for simply stopping a pro-abortionist from harassing his 12-year-old son even though the abortion activist was the one stirring trouble.
Our current administration is facilitating and permitting extreme bias against pro-life groups. As a matter of fact, the U.S. Department of Justice keeps a documented list of all the times “Reproductive Health Care Providers” were attacked but doesn’t have a list for when pregnancy centers were.
Life News asked Dr. John Lott, president and founder of CPRC about the bias in the media and he responded as such.
The overwhelming narrative in the media is the claim those on the right are responsible for most of the politically motivated violence in the U.S. The media has uncritically accepted pro-choice claims of violence without asking for a list of cases.
The bias at this point is undeniable and the media couldn’t even care less.
A new study from the Crime Prevention Research Center confirms that pro-life advocates have become a huge target of political violence, suffering more than 22 times as many attacks as abortion activists since May.
Between May 3 and Sept. 24, pro-life advocates and organizations have been shot, firebombed, vandalized, stolen from and threatened in at least 135 attacks, the research group found. In contrast, researchers found only six crime reports targeting abortion activists and pro-abortion groups in the same period.
Dr. John Lott, president and founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), said the mainstream media portrays the situation as opposite, but researchers could not find data to support the claim.
“The overwhelming narrative in the media is the claim those on the right are responsible for most of the politically motivated violence in the U.S.,” said Lott, who has taught at Yale, Stanford and other prestigious universities. “The media has uncritically accepted pro-choice claims of violence without asking for a list of cases.”
According to the new study, its numbers came from local and national news reports and the U.S. Department of Justice, which “keeps an up-to-date list of recent violence cases against reproductive health care providers.” The department list includes only one report: a case of property damage against a Planned Parenthood facility in July. It does not keep track of attacks on pro-life organizations.
Researchers also contacted the DC Abortion Fund and the National Abortion Federation (NAF), which publishes an annual report about violence and harassment against abortion providers, but they did not receive a response to multiple requests for information.
According to an Oct. 3 report in The Daily Beast, NAF reported double the number of “arson, vandalism, blockades, bomb threats and death threats” against pro-abortion groups in May through August of this year compared to the same time last year. . . .
According to a new report by Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC),even the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been underreporting the number of times legally armed citizens have thwarted an active-shooter situation over the last eight years. . . .
Faulty FBI Data Obscures Successful Defensive Gun Use. John Lott cites important deficits in the agency’s reporting of incidents where civilian firearms have saved lives.
Carl Cannon, “Pivotal Pennsylvania,” Real Clear Politics, November 1, 2022.
Missoula County has agreed to maintain video surveillance footage of the Election Center for the duration of the lawsuit, whereas the usual retention window standard is 30 days. The subject footage will be collected from Nov. 6 to Nov. 14.
John Lott with the Missoula County Election Integrity Project brought the lawsuit against the Missoula County Elections Office and Elections Administrator Bradley Seaman.
Lott told the Missoulian in an email that he’s interested in official record keeping of elections as required by the federal 1960 Civil Rights Act.
“I wanted to do something very simple: match the number of voters listed as voting with the number of ballots cast,” Lott wrote. . . .
John Lott issued another stunning report. Dr. Lott at the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) said there were “massive errors” in the FBI’s reports on attempted mass murderers. It also says that armed citizens are amazing, though the FBI seems to have a strong bias against counting attacks that were stopped by ordinary citizens. This is what Lott found.
Dr. Lott went back seven years of data and identified 360 “active shooter incidents”, though he admits he probably missed several more. In that data he found 124 times where an ordinary armed citizen stopped the attacks. Over that same time period, the FBI identified only 252 active shooter incidents, and they could only find 11 examples that were stopped by armed citizens. Those differences are huge. Lott found that “some 34% of the active shooter incidents were stopped by armed citizens, not the 4% cited by the FBl.” This is important because these FBI reports are reprinted as truth in the mainstream media.
In my mind, a security guard is licensed and a paid position. These armed men and women were not paid to attend church services.
Lott admits he excluded another 24 cases because the armed civilians stopped the armed attack before the murderer fired his gun. Isn’t that the best-case outcome?
The media and gun control advocates seem concerned with the worst possible outcomes when civilians defend themselves. Yes, there is always the possibility that a bystander could be injured, but we have yet to see an armed citizen shoot an innocent bystander. In contrast, we know that the police have accidentally shot and killed the armed defender at least once. That’s not something that happens very often because the police usually arrive long after the shooting is over. Either the murderer is usually dead or he was long gone before the police arrive.
A Fox News report recalled the incident earlier this year at the Greenwood Mall in Indiana, where legally-armed 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken successfully stopped a would-be mass shooter just seconds after the killer opened fire in the mall food court area. At a distance estimated to be 40 yards, Dicken began firing ten rounds of which eight hit the shooter, fatally wounding him. He was hailed as a hero by Greenwood Police Chief James Ison.
Rob Morse, “Good Guys Save Lives, but the FBI Can’t See Them,” Ammoland, October 26, 2022.
According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, last year there were more than 21.5 million active carry licenses in the U.S., and that doesn’t cover all the bases since 25 states now allow permitless carry for personal protection. An updated report on concealed carry should be available in a couple of weeks, and if the surge in Washington is any indicator, the number could be eye-popping. . . .
The media will tell you that good guys with guns hardly ever stop attacks. Boy, are they wrong. According to compiled evidence by the Crime Prevention Research Center, some media outlets are underreporting the number of Defensive Gun Uses (DGU) by law abiding gun owners where attacks are prevented. Some media is reporting only 10% of the actual DGUs in America by citizens.
Could this be because DGUs by law-abiding citizens don’t support the anti-gun narrative, or could it be simply due to faulty information they are given?
A look into the data provided by the FBI shows that discrepancies in DGUs are often caused by the “misclassifying of shootings” and “overlooked incidents.” Research by the Crime Prevention Research Center shows us that in several incidents, the FBI didn’t list attacks that were stopped by armed citizens when police had later apprehended the attackers. According to Crime Prevention Research Center, the FBI also has misidentified armed citizens as security officials resulting in the elimination of them being qualified as “citizen defensive gun uses.” You may remember Jack Wilson, who stopped an attack at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas. The media narrative portrayed Wilson as a security guard when Wilson himself said he was just a parishioner who had volunteered to provide security during worship.
In some cases where armed civilians completely thwart mass public shootings (meaning, not even a shot fired), the FBI simply doesn’t report them. According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, the FBI missed 25 of these incidents that would likely have become mass public shootings had it not been for the good guy or gal with a gun. . . .
Dan Wos, “FBI Under Reports Good Guys with Guns Saving Lives,” Ammoland, October 25, 2022.
Welcome to the cognitive dissonance zone. They call it the “Gun Free Zone.”
The hit TV show “The Twilight Zone” (1959-1964) once told us in its terse intro about entering “a land of both shadow and substance,” but it had nothing on today’s so-called “gun-free zone,” which requires a complete suspension of reality. We are supposed to ignore the fact that, as the Crime Prevention Research Center determined, 94% of mass murderers chose “gun-free zones” to commit their crimes in the U.S. between 1950 and 2019, as they wanted to prey on unarmed victims. We are also supposed to believe the lie that the good people, such as lawfully armed citizens, are actually the bad guys. . . .
Frank Miniter, “The Legal Battles Over ‘Gun-Free Zones’,” America’s 1st Freedom, October 21, 2022.
