By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime
Three years ago,
RealClearInvestigations reported that the FBI was undercounting the
number of armed civilians who had thwarted active shooters by a factor of
three. Even though the FBI acknowledged the issue at the time, it never
corrected the error involving the politically fraught issue. In the years
since, the problem has only gotten worse. Since RCI's 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 – a 26-fold difference. The discrepancy
highlights systemic problems in the nation's record-keeping regarding the
politically potent issue of crime and safety. [more...]
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