But Dicken’s act, though heroic, was also a statistical unicorn. An examination of 433 active shooter attacks in the United States between 2000 and 2021 showed that only 22 ended with a bystander shooting an attacker, according to data from the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State University.
I’ve heard this elsewhere in the media, with the accompanying commentary that this event is so rare, that “we shouldn’t depend” on a good guy with a gun to stop an armed assailant.
I'm going to guess that most of those 433 incidents were gang-related, in neighborhoods where there aren't many good guys who can pass a CCW background check.
How many were in “gun-free zones,” as this one was? Seems to me we need fewer gun-free zones, or more people ignoring the signs.