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Report: Armed Citizens Stop Active Shooters 8x More Often Than FBI Claims
Breitbart ^ | 08/31/2023 | AWR HAWKINS

Posted on 08/31/2023 10:44:41 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A report from John R. Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), shows that from 2014 to 2022 armed citizens stopped active shooters eight times more often than the FBI claimed.

In the report, excerpts of which Lott published on Real Clear Politics, he noted, “Out of 440 active shooter incidents from 2014 to 2022, an armed citizen stopped 157. We also found that the FBI had misidentified five cases, usually because the person who stopped the attack was incorrectly identified as a security guard.”

He observed, “While the FBI claims that just 4.6% of active shootings were stopped by law-abiding citizens carrying guns, the percentage that I found was 35.7%. I am more confident that we have identified a higher share of recent cases, and our figure for 2022 was even higher – 41.3%.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armed; banglist; citizens; fbi; shooters
FBI is corrupt as hell
1 posted on 08/31/2023 10:44:41 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

stop the fbi now...

start over.


2 posted on 08/31/2023 10:45:54 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You mean the Gestapo is lying?


3 posted on 08/31/2023 10:46:17 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
So far, with a gun I stopped a person attempting to steal my neighbor's catalytic converter, a man literally kicking another in the head, someone attempting to break into my house, a thug beating a girl on the sidewalk, and a road raging loser who beat on the driver's side window of my car.
4 posted on 08/31/2023 10:50:35 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Arrest all of them. Charge them with bogus crimes and deny bail (flight risk). Investigate until the day before the statute of limitations runs out and then add additional charges. Rinse, wash and repeat. That is the NEW law.


5 posted on 08/31/2023 10:51:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Friends of Biden Inc.
6 posted on 08/31/2023 10:55:15 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wonder what the results would be if you polled FBI agents on whether citizens should be armed or not.


7 posted on 08/31/2023 10:56:58 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What our corrupt FBI lies?! I am shocked, just shocked I tell you. /obvious sarc


8 posted on 08/31/2023 11:21:45 AM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: thegagline

Never used a gun but used a knife a few times to stop criminals. Fortunately just pulling it (not hard to tell if someone knows how to actually use a blade) was enough. Never had to cut anyone but was willing to do so.

Point being no stats exist about such things. I cannot be the only one who has done this.


9 posted on 08/31/2023 11:24:22 AM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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10 posted on 08/31/2023 12:06:11 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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We have to be our first responders for a reason.


11 posted on 08/31/2023 2:14:10 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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