Data: For convenience, the Excel file is available here, as well as a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories. We also show cases that the FBI missed of both armed and unarmed civilians stopping active shooting attacks. FBI Active Shooting...
FBI Active Shooting Cases
UPDATED: Cases where armed citizens have stopped active shooter incidents
The list of active shooting cases that were averted by people legally carrying guns, and were missed in the FBI Active Shooting reports. The FBI's definition of active shootings is narrow: it involves cases where a gun is fired in public and not part of some other...
Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports from 2014-2022 regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 4.6%, the correct number is at least 35.7%. In 2022, it is at least 41.3%. Excluding gun-free zones, it averaged over 63.5%.
Data: For convenience, a PDF of the Excel file is also available here and a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories. FBI Active Shooting reports are available here (2000-2013), here (2014-2015), here (2016-2017), here (2018), here (2019), here...
At Real Clear Politics: FBI Data on Active Shootings Is Misleading
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics about our newest report on errors in the FBI Active Shooting Reports. Also published in The Daily Signal, Zero Hedge, Political Insider, Georgia Star News, Millennial Press, and the Truth About Guns. . Americans are...
Cases where armed citizens have stopped active shooter incidents
The list of active shooting cases that were averted by people legally carrying guns that were missed in the FBI Active Shooting reports. The FBI's definition of active shootings is narrow: it involves cases where a gun is fired in public and not part of some other...
At the Washington Times: FBI data on good guys with guns called ‘garbage’ as critic finds many more cases
The Washington Times has a long article on our research on the FBI Active Shooting reports missing cases where civilians stop attacks (see also here). This was also picked up in the Daily Journal on March 26, 2023. The article is as follows: Mercedes Perez crashed her...
Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 4.4%, the correct number is at least 34.4%. In 2021, it is at least 49.1%. Excluding gun-free zones, it averaged over 50%.
FBI ACTIVE SHOOTER DATABASE is available here for people who want to check all the casesDownload Data: For convenience, a PDF of the Excel file is also available here and a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories. FBI Active Shooting reports are...