Posted on 05/29/2026 4:52:55 AM PDT by marktwain
On July 30, 2024, the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) published a paper showing massive errors in the FBI Active Shooter Reports from 2014 through 2023.
In that time, I have personally been following the issue throughout. The first viral post I wrote about the subject of armed civilians stopping mass murders was published on December 15, 2012. It had 16 incidents documented from October 1997 to 11 December 2012. All of these incidents occurred before the FBI started collecting data on “active shooter” incidents.
The CPRC paper, with a solid institution and organization behind it, does a better job than a single blogger did at the end of 2012.
The CPRC shows how badly the FBI has bungled the job of tracking these events. The first FBI report was published ten months later, during the Obama administration, in September 2014. The CPRC covered the problems with the FBI report in October 2014.
The reason for the difference in the numbers reported by the FBI is not immediately obvious. It happens because the FBI structured its approach to identifying incidents and determining whether they qualify for inclusion.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
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... an example of the complete anti-2A Obama push with Wingman AG straw purchasing and Handing out “Assault Rifles” to every wacko in their database.
Asnd those ‘crats are still on the payroll... ymmv
It takes a committee to approve an incident for inclusion.
As I understand a “concensus vote” if one person does not approve, the incident is not included.
This is a mechanism to minimize the number of incidents which are counted.
Dean is apologizing for the FBI when he knows damn well this is a feature, not a bug.
Dean is apologizing for the FBI when he knows damn well this is a feature, not a bug.
First Obama and then BeijingBiden corrupted the reporting process when they made it voluntary. Any jurisdiction can now refuse to submit data or simply redefine a crime so that the politicos in charge can claim that they are pro-justice.
The FBI Uniform Crime Reporting system has always been voluntary.
Never been involved in an active shooter event.
HST, I have presented my pistol to protect my life and my loved one’s lives on seven occasions.
Never shot at anyone, so am not in the data base.
Studies and surveys from 1987 to 2025 suggest instances of defensive gun use range from 65,000 to 2.5 million each year.
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