https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX-NwhyipDE The Biden administration is identifying militia violent extremists by looking for the symbol "2A" or they talk about "the right to bear arms."
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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. Our original write-up on this problem is available here. Specifically, just those cases where just mass public shootings were...
FBI misused a high-tech surveillance tool on Jan. 6 suspects and even Campaign Donors more than 278,000 times
It is pretty scary when the FBI keeps on inserting itself into elections. The FBI has interfered with every election from 2016 on. The fact that they used surveillance on 19,000 donors to a Republican congressional candidate's campaign is very troubling. There doesn't...
Copy of John Durham’s Report on the FBI’s Actions in the 2016 Presidential Campaign
A copy of the report is available here.
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...
Fox News: FBI undercounts number of times armed citizens have thwarted active shooting incidents
Our research gets extensive coverage at Fox News. A new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) argues that the FBI's data contains "massive errors" when tracking active shooting incidents, undercounting how often armed citizens have...
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...
New Research: Corrections to the FBI’s Reports on Active Shooting Incidents
This new research by Dr. John Lott is available here. While he was working at the Department of Justice, he put together a report on errors in the FBI's Reports on Active Shooting incidents. Abstract The claim in the original FBI report that active shooting cases have...
At Real Clear Politics: The Problem With the FBI’s ‘Active Shooter’ Data
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics on errors in the FBI's 'Active Shooter' data. Many people are focusing on the political biases in the FBI’s treatment of the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns, but the political corruption of the agency...