{"id":112699,"date":"2025-10-14T19:17:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=112699"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:17:55","slug":"112699","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=112699","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

FBI Continues To Publish Inaccurate Data On Armed Citizens Stopping Active Shooters<\/a><\/p>\n

Few gun owners were surprised when we learned that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under President Joe Biden had\u00a0fudged the numbers<\/a>\u00a0when reporting active shooters stopped by armed citizens. Now, however, the Trump Administration FBI is continuing the practice, far underreporting the number of incidents where armed citizens are the real heroes.<\/p>\n

According to an October 2 report by John Lott\u00a0posted at realclearinvestigatiins.com<\/a>, the past trend of the FBI underreporting armed citizens who stopped active shooters continues to be a problem. And Lott, president of the\u00a0Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC)<\/a>, said it\u2019s not just a small discrepancy; the FBI is grossly underreporting the numbers.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though the FBI acknowledged the issue at the time, it never corrected the error involving the politically fraught issue,\u201d Lott wrote. \u201cIn the years since, the problem has only gotten worse.\u00a0Since RCI\u2019s 2022 article, the FBI has acknowledged just three additional incidents of armed good Samaritans stopping active shooters from 2022 to 2024, and none in the last two years. In contrast, the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), which I head, has documented 78 such cases over that same period\u2014a 26-fold difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0FBI defines active shooter incidents\u00a0<\/a>as those in which an individual kills or attempts to kill people in a public place, excluding shootings that are related to other criminal activity, such as robbery or fighting over drug turf. They include instances from one person being shot at and missed all the way up to a mass public shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2022, the FBI reported that only 11 of the 252 active shooter incidents it identified for the period 2014-2021, or 4.4%, were stopped by an armed citizen,\u201d Lott wrote. \u201cHowever, an analysis by my organization identified a total of 281 active shooter incidents during that same period and found that 41 of them\u2014or 14.6%\u2014were stopped by an armed citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Lott further pointed out, the FBI report compiled for the Biden administration for 2023 and 2024 contains worse errors.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt asserts that armed civilians stopped none of the 72 active shooting cases it identified,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe CPRC, by contrast, identified 121 active shooter cases\u201445 of which were ultimately halted by armed civilians. Those incidents included\u00a0eight cases that likely would have resulted in mass public shootings with four or more people murdered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Lott said that the FBI has the ability to set the record straight in at least some cases, providing a clearer view of remedies to crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut its unwillingness to correct errors\u2014or its efforts to\u00a0fix them on the sly<\/a>, as RCI reported last year\u2014and improve its methodology raises more concerns. Its shortcomings regarding armed citizens thwarting active shooters illuminate many of these problems.<\/p>\n

Lott\u2019s report at realclearinvestigations.com also delves into the dangerous fallacy of so-called \u201cgun-free\u201d zones. Those interested in learning more about the FBI\u2019s underreporting of armed heroes and the danger of \u201cgun-free\u201d zones should\u00a0give it a good read<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FBI Continues To Publish Inaccurate Data On Armed Citizens Stopping Active Shooters Few gun owners were surprised when we learned that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under President Joe Biden had\u00a0fudged the numbers\u00a0when reporting active shooters stopped by armed citizens. Now, however, the Trump Administration FBI is continuing the practice, far underreporting the number … 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":[39,48,64,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucraps","category-crime","category-deceit","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112699","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=112699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112700,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112699\/revisions\/112700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}