The FBI failed to properly record instances where law-abiding citizens stopped violent shooters, leading to false reports that "good guys with guns" have no effect on stopping violent criminals, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center.

The FBI's data, which claimed that only 14 of 374 active shooters were stopped by armed citizens between 2014 and 2024, undercounted shootings by a staggering 561 incidents. When those excluded cases are applied to the dataset, it reveals more than 202 instances where law-abiding gun owners stopped an active shooter.

This updated dataset takes the FBI's original statistic—which claims only 3.7 percent of active shooters were stopped by armed citizens—and raises the real number to 36 percent. If "gun-free zones," a misguided policy that assumes criminals will obey a metal sign, are excluded from the data, over 52 percent of active shooters are stopped by law-abiding gun owners.

A Restoration News analysis of non-citizens in congressional districts shows Democrats represent far fewer American citizens than Republicans do, since non-citizens contribute to congressional apportionment.

The United States Constitution mandates that seats in the House of Representatives be apportioned among the states based on total population, a count that includes every resident regardless of citizenship status. This longstanding practice ensures all inhabitants—citizens, legal immigrants, and even illegal aliens—factor into the allocation of congressional districts and, by extension, the Electoral College.

However, this system has unintended consequences in a nation with around 25 million non-citizens that the U.S. Census knows about—although this number is likely much higher when factoring in illegal alien estimates. While non-citizens cannot vote in federal elections, their presence inflates the population count that determines political power.