Dr. Adam Lankford was quoted in the Chicago Tribune as they discuss shootings by concealed carry license holders in Illinois. While the state of Illinois requires that new applicants take 16 hours of gun safety classes, Illinois has not standardized the education across all applicants. The Chicago Tribune asked criminologists about the “good guy with a gun,” and Dr. Adam Lankford responds.
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Dr. Adam Lankford recently published a study on the 2016 Dallas and Baton Rouge cop killers, who committed two of the worst targeted attacks on American police officers in recent history — within eleven days of each other.