After a review by the Crime Prevention Research Center, they found that armed “good Samaritans” stopped as many as 62% of all active-shooter incidents. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has somehow managed to record that number as being just 3.7%.
This comes from data collected by the Center from 2014-2024. They shared their data on X while calling out the FBI’s faulty data.
Dr. Greg Fremin, a former captain with the Houston Police Department, also suggested that this faulty FBI data could be a result of a political agenda. He said, “There were probably some nefarious things happening within the FBI, possibly during the Biden Administration, to support this ideology of tighter gun controls.”
Dr. Fremin went on to say that this new data is a prime example of why the Second Amendment is so important. According to Dr. Fremin, “You have armed thugs, some of them operating independently or as organizations, and they’re going around terrorizing people. Thank God for people who step up.” . .
“Mass public shooters explicitly target places where they know their victims are not able to protect themselves,” John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told The College Fix.
“These places actually serve as magnets for attacks,” he said.
The Crime Prevention Research Center found that 92 percent of mass public shootings occur in gun-free zones, where civilians cannot legally carry firearms. . . .
A crime and gun expert says that the FBI has been grossly underreporting the number of mass shootings that have been stopped by a civilian with a concealed carry permit.
The saying goes “it takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun.” According to the FBI, however, it happens only rarely that a civilian with a concealed carry permit stops an active shooter. According to the FBI crime database, only about 4% of active shooting cases, about 14 out of 302, involves civilians who have a concealed carry permit who are stopping these active shooting attacks.
However, Dr. John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) took an independent look at the data.
“They simply have missed a lot of cases. I think rather than 14, you’re talking about 202, and so rather than 4%, you’re talking about 36% or so of these attacks were stopped by civilians,” informs Lott.
According to the CPRC, this is a massive error in active shooting reports from between the years 2014 to 2024. It’s an important statistic, because it’s a key data point used in a variety of ways.
“It’s not just used by the media, it’s used in court cases, it’s used in academic studies, it’s gone and used in legislative debates,” explains Lott.
RealClearInvestigations published an article, written by Lott, titled “Unaccountable: The FBI’s Strange Refusal to Fix Key Crime Stat.” In it, he says that these discrepancies “highlight systemic problems in the nation’s record-keeping regarding the politically potent issue of crime and safety.”
Lott reveals that, even though several sources, including his research, has shown that the FBI statistics are wildly inaccurate, the agency, so far, has refused to correct them.
“It’s possible you could just simply be incompetent, but even when academics and others have pointed out that they missed these cases, they haven’t gone back and fixed them,” says Lott.
Furthermore, Lott wrote that their unwillingness to correct their mistake or change their methodology raises a clear causes of concern.
His research ended with the 2024 statistics, which was the Biden FBI era. The new FBI director, Kash Patel, and Deputy Director Dan Bongino have made some substantive changes at the agency, but so far, they have not seen or addressed this particular statistic.
“I think the FBI needs to fix the data,” concludes Lott.
After a review by the Crime Prevention Research Center, they found that armed “good Samaritans” stopped as many as 62% of all active-shooter incidents. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has somehow managed to record that number as being just 3.7%.
This comes from data collected by the Center from 2014-2024. They shared their data on X while calling out the FBI’s faulty data.
Dr. Greg Fremin, a former captain with the Houston Police Department, also suggested that this faulty FBI data could be a result of a political agenda. He said, “There were probably some nefarious things happening within the FBI, possibly during the Biden Administration, to support this ideology of tighter gun controls.”
Dr. Fremin went on to say that this new data is a prime example of why the Second Amendment is so important. According to Dr. Fremin, “You have armed thugs, some of them operating independently or as organizations, and they’re going around terrorizing people. Thank God for people who step up.”
He called the modern violent crime crisis that we’ve seen spread across the United States in recent years a form of “anarcho-tyranny” and says that while the Founding Fathers likely wouldn’t have ever imagined things getting this bad, this is exactly the type of situation that they prepared us for by instituting the Second Amendment.
Fremin also emphasized the importance of not just carrying a firearm for self-defense, but also using situational awareness and taking the time to learn how and when to use a firearm properly, warning that if you aren’t careful, you could become a statistic. . . .
However, experts are raising concerns that the bill may be counterproductive.
“Mass public shooters explicitly target places where they know their victims are not able to protect themselves,” John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told The College Fix.
“These places actually serve as magnets for attacks,” he said.
The Crime Prevention Research Center found that 92 percent of mass public shootings occur in gun-free zones, where civilians cannot legally carry firearms. . . .
According to a report from the Crime Prevention Research Center, between 2014 and 2021, armed civilians stopped 34.4% of active shootings—far higher than the FBI’s reported figures, which conveniently align with anti-gun narratives pushed by Democrats. . . .
A new analysis from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) says the FBI has dramatically undercounted how often armed citizens stop active shooters. Where the FBI has long told the public that civilians intervene successfully in just 3.7% of cases from 2014–2024, CPRC argues the true rate is at least 36% – and, when incidents in gun-free zones are excluded, the average rises above 52%, with 2024 hitting 62.5%. CPRC’s president, economist John R. Lott Jr., says the implications are straightforward: law-abiding citizens stop attackers far more often than the official narrative suggests. . . . [A very long discussion is available here]
During waves of terror attacks, Israel’s national police chief will call on all concealed-handgun permit holders to make sure they carry firearms at all times, and Israelis have many examples where concealed permit holders have saved lives.
Gun research guru John Lott, whose data-filled talks on firearms and violent crime have captivated Gun Rights Policy Conference audiences for several years, made it clear to those gathered at this year’s event in Salt Lake City that he is not impressed with FBI data and how it was quietly updated last year, and he’s not keen on the establishment media, either.
He delivered a detail-packed presentation on FBI crime data which always has a one-year “lag” because statistics from the previous year are not published until well into September the following year. This became obvious during the presidential campaign of 2024 when then-candidate Donald Trump correctly stated during a debate that violent crime was up, and then found himself incorrectly corrected by a moderator using out-of-date data.
Lott explained how he found the agency had quietly updated and corrected its data for 2022 nearly one year after it was originally published. Initially, the data suggested crime for 2022 had declined 2.1 percent. But in the final report the following year, the FBI updated the data to show a 4.5 percent increase. . . . .
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