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FBI \u2018Active Shooter\u2019 Stats Shoot Holes In Biden\u2019s \u2018Mass Shooting\u2019 Argument<\/a><\/p>\n

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, anti-gun legislators and gun-ban groups like to tout the number of mass shootings in America, often saying there have been more mass shootings in the country than there have been days in the year.<\/p>\n

Of course, these anti-gun activists are using numbers from the Gun Violence Archives, a website known for using criteria that greatly inflates such numbers. And that\u2019s very easy to see when compared to the just-released\u00a0Federal Bureau of Investigation report<\/a>\u00a0on \u201cactive shooter\u201d incidents.<\/p>\n

GVA\u2019s \u201cmass shootings\u201d criteria is all events where four or more people are injured in a shooting. These incidents are often drug gang attacks and the like\u2014not at all what Americans think of as mass shootings. In fact, they would include a botched arrest where two cops and two suspects are shot, and even self-defense shootings! By their criteria, they reported 656 mass shootings in 2023.<\/p>\n

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The FBI, on the other hand, classifies an \u201cactive shooter\u201d how most Americans likely envision it\u2014\u201can individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area.\u201d By the FBI\u2019s count, there were 48 active shooter incidents in 2023, only about 7% of the total reported by GVA and constantly regurgitated by politicians and the press.<\/div>\n
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Of course, President Biden and other gun-ban advocates have full access to the FBI report, but you never hear them talking about it. They prefer the bloated numbers from GVA, even though they aren\u2019t a true picture of what most think of when they hear the word \u201cmass shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The latest FBI numbers showed a decrease in active shooter incidents from 50 in 2022. However, most media outlets chose to report that the number had gone up compared to 2019 numbers. Go figure.<\/p>\n

According to the FBI report, the 48 active shooter incidents in 2023 occurred in 26 different states. That means nearly half of the states didn\u2019t have a single incident, despite the media trying to make you think it\u2019s almost a certainly you\u2019ll be involved in a mass shooting at any minute. What likely won\u2019t be surprising to most TTAG readers is that the state with the most \u201cactive shooter\u201d incidents last year is also the state with the most restrictive gun control laws\u2014California.<\/p>\n

Of the 48 incidents, California had eight\u2014nearly 17% of the total. And yes, that\u2019s the same California whose restrictive gun laws are coveted by President Biden and gun-ban advocates throughout the country. On the other hand, 22 of the 30 states that have passed constitutional carry laws had only one or zero FBI-defined \u201cactive shooter\u201d incidents in 2023.<\/p>\n

When it comes to what people think of when they hear the term \u201cmass shootings,\u201d the title of the John Lott book\u00a0More Guns, Less Crime<\/em>\u00a0continues to remain as relevant today as it was back when it was first published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FBI \u2018Active Shooter\u2019 Stats Shoot Holes In Biden\u2019s \u2018Mass Shooting\u2019 Argument President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, anti-gun legislators and gun-ban groups like to tout the number of mass shootings in America, often saying there have been more mass shootings in the country than there have been days in the year. Of course, these … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,48,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucraps","category-crime","category-goobermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102686,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102685\/revisions\/102686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}