{"id":168543,"date":"2022-09-13T11:58:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=168543"},"modified":"2022-09-13T11:58:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T09:57:10","slug":"lott-how-the-fbi-undercounts-good-guys-with-guns-stopping-active-shooters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/lott-how-the-fbi-undercounts-good-guys-with-guns-stopping-active-shooters\/","title":{"rendered":"Lott: How the FBI Undercounts Good Guys with Guns Stopping Active Shooters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rumble-com wp-block-embed-rumble-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"On Wilkow!: How the FBI Undercounts Armed Citizen Responders to Mass Killers \u2014 and Media Play Along\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v1er423\/?pub=4#?secret=yw2sCtWHWq\" data-secret=\"yw2sCtWHWq\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Year after year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation underreports cases in which armed citizen responders stop active shooters.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One can extend the agency a little slack for missing a few stories as local media reporting isn&#8217;t always precise and the 24\/7 news cycle is unrelenting and sometimes headlines get buried.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, what is unforgivable is when Dr. John Lott Jr., president of the nonprofit Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), confronts the FBI with stories it clearly overlooked and the agency refuses to adjust its annual &#8220;Active Shooter Incidents&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/new-fbi-report-armed-citizens-stopped-active-shooters-in-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"lott-how-the-fbi-undercounts-good-guys-with-guns-stopping-active-shooters\" title=\"Lott: How the FBI Undercounts Good Guys with Guns Stopping Active Shooters\">report<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Dr. Lott explained in a recent interview with radio host Andrew Wilkow (see video above), this failure by the agency to amend the data matters because much of the public debate over the efficacy of armed citizen responders as means to stop active shooters centers around the FBI&#8217;s annual report. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we don&#8217;t paint a complete picture, we won&#8217;t truly understand the role good guys with guns play in thwarting these attacks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/philadelphia-enlists-media-for-gun-control-they-should-demand-answers-on-failed-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"lott-how-the-fbi-undercounts-good-guys-with-guns-stopping-active-shooters\" title=\"Lott: How the FBI Undercounts Good Guys with Guns Stopping Active Shooters\">Philadelphia Enlists Media for Gun Control. They Should Demand Answers on Failed Policies<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As Dr. Lott observed in a recent article published by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usacarry.com\/fbi-undercounts-armed-citizen-responders-mass-killers\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"lott-how-the-fbi-undercounts-good-guys-with-guns-stopping-active-shooters\" title=\"Lott: How the FBI Undercounts Good Guys with Guns Stopping Active Shooters\"><em>RealClear Investigations<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(emphasis added):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Bureau reports that only 11 of the 252 active shooter incidents it identified for the period 2014-2021 were stopped by an armed citizen. An analysis by my organization identified a total of 281 active shooter incidents during that same period and found that 41 of them were stopped by an armed citizen.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>That is, the FBI reported that 4.4% of active shooter incidents were thwarted by armed citizens, while the CPRC found 14.6%.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The other wrinkle to this story, as GunsAmerica previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/cprc-armed-citizen-responders-stopped-active-shooters-40-of-the-time-in-gun-friendly-zones\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"lott-how-the-fbi-undercounts-good-guys-with-guns-stopping-active-shooters\" title=\"Lott: How the FBI Undercounts Good Guys with Guns Stopping Active Shooters\">reported<\/a>, is the rate at which good guys with guns stop active shooters in gun-friendly zones vs gun-free zones.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all, we cannot expect a high prevalence of engagement from law-abiding gun owners in places where guns are banned.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also no coincidence that most mass killings, over 90 percent, happen in gun-free zones.  Criminals prefer the path of least resistance, aka soft targets.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Dr. Lott crunched the numbers, he found that armed citizen responders stopped 40 percent of active shooters in gun-friendly zones.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn areas where people legally carrying guns are allowed, at least 40% of active shooting attacks are stopped,\u201d Lott said in a separate CPRC newsletter about the FBI numbers.\u00a0 Again, that was the time period between 2014-2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That figure is astounding!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine the paradigm shift in the public&#8217;s way of viewing this issue if it knew that good guys with guns stop two out five of active shooters in places where one&#8217;s 2A rights are embraced.  It would be the end of gun-free zones.  It would also put would-be mass killers on notice: no more soft targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, you won&#8217;t hear any of this being discussed in the mainstream media.  Nor will you see a concerted effort by the FBI to get the active shooter data right.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Makes you wonder if either institution really has a desire to stop these deranged psychopaths because when they ignore the truth, they suppress the widespread implementation of the most viable solution out there: armed citizen responders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"> ***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year after year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation underreports cases in which armed citizen responders stop active shooters.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":168575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,25,216,240],"tags":[132,3436,607],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-168543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"category-this-week","11":"tag-buzz","12":"tag-cprc","13":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lott: How the FBI Undercounts Good Guys with Guns Stopping Active Shooters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Year after year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation underreports cases in which armed citizen responders stop active shooters.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/lott-how-the-fbi-undercounts-good-guys-with-guns-stopping-active-shooters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lott: How the FBI Undercounts Good Guys with Guns Stopping Active Shooters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Year after year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation underreports cases in which armed citizen responders stop active shooters.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/lott-how-the-fbi-undercounts-good-guys-with-guns-stopping-active-shooters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-13T15:58:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-08T09:57:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Lott.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"704\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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