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\n\u201cThe numbers indicate if we didn\u2019t have gun-free zones, we would have more people stopping these attacks,\u201d<\/p>\n

Over 60% of \u2018active shooters\u2019 stopped by \u2018good guy with a gun\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

A large percentage of \u201cactive shooter\u201d incidents are thwarted by armed citizens who sometimes don\u2019t even fire their\u00a0weapons<\/a>, but those cases are no longer counted under President\u00a0Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s pro-gun control policies.<\/p>\n

According to just-released data from the\u00a0Crime Prevention Research Center<\/a>, 41% of active shooting incidents were stopped by armed civilians.<\/p>\n

Outside of so-called gun-free zones, which bar the legal carrying of firearms, over 63% of active shooting cases were ended by an armed civilian, according to the center.<\/p>\n

The new data from John R. Lott Jr., the former Justice Department senior adviser for research and statistics, are his latest to challenge undercounting and bias in government reports on shootings and back up efforts by Second Amendment and police groups to encourage people to carry firearms.<\/p>\n

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Lott continually updates his data to include all the cases, including those the government overlooks or misclassifies, to counter media reports that it is rare for civilians to put down active shooters. His information is especially critical since the Biden administration stopped counting defensive actions by civilians.<\/p>\n

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New data from the Crime Prevention Research Center shows that many activer shooter cases are ended by a civilian with a gun. <\/span>Chart courtesy CPRC<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Following the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012, Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, famously held a press conference to decry the shooting and offer a solution. He said, \u201cThe only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liberal anti-gun groups and media allies mocked the comments, but they have been unable to come up with a winning solution to stopping often deranged shooters. Lott\u2019s data show that LaPierre was likely correct.<\/p>\n

Of 440 cases he cited from 2014-2022, 157 active shootings were stopped by an armed civilian. By comparison, the FBI cited fewer cases, 302, and even fewer thwarted by armed civilians, 14.<\/p>\n

The FBI data from 2014-2022 have led the media to call the interventions rare. Lott said the FBI data often misclassify cases, do not dig deeper than skimpy police reports, or wrongly identify the civilian with the gun as a security guard.<\/p>\n

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