This is a revised, updated version of a post originally written on April 21, 2015. We have most seriously updated this list starting at the beginning of 2020. UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh wrote in the Washington Post on April 20, 2015: "Have civilians with...
A permit holder stopped a shooter who had shot four people and threatened others. Interestingly, many initial news reports had credited an off-duty police officer with stopping the attack (also here). The suspect apparently had a stolen gun. Police in El Paso,...
A new Trafalgar Group survey of 1,078 likely general election voters from July 7th to 10th, 2022, shows they believe that armed citizens are much more effective in protecting people in a mass shooting than local police or federal agents. While Democrats are much less...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Newsweek on the mass public shooting attack in Indianapolis that was stopped by a concealed handgun permit holder. . In Indianapolis on Sunday, a law-abiding citizen carrying a concealed handgun stopped another mass public shooting....
UPDATE: From WXIN.com: "While police are crediting an Indiana man with shooting and killing a suspect in the Greenwood Park Mall shooting Sunday, mall policy prohibited him from carrying at all. . . . 'The real hero of the day was the citizen that was lawfully...
Cases like this just don't get national news. Here a man with "an extensive criminal history" started firing an "AR-15 style firearm" into a crowd. Fortunately, a woman who was legally carrying a gun was there to stop the attack. Police said a woman who was lawfully...
More examples of mass public shootings that were stopped by citizens legally carrying concealed handguns are available here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUW9LvPSPjA South Fulton, Georgia: . . . Meadows said the men involved in the shootout with Hambrick have been...
This case occurred in South Central Nebraska on October 22, 2021. A man fired from a south central Nebraska grain complex Thursday returned to the facility and started shooting at his former colleagues killing two, and injuring another according to the Nebraska State...
This past Sunday, four people were injured after a fight between two teenagers at Lancaster’s Park City Center Mall escalated into a shooting this past weekend. A 16-year-old who was illegally carrying a gun started the shooting. But it could have been much worse were...
Chicago, Illinois, July 4th, 2021 It seems likely that if the concealed handgun permit holder hadn't intervened in this case there would have been at least three deaths instead of just the one woman. There were obviously other people present, so who knows how many...
Having murdered two people and wounded a couple of others, it is clear that the attacker intended to kill as many people as possible. The quick response by people with concealed handgun permits stopped the attack. A person entered a gun store and shooting range in a...
Here is another example where police have said that if it wasn't for the presence of a legal concealed handgun permit holder many others could have been killed. Fortunately, one of the people wounded in the shooting had a permitted concealed handgun and was able to...