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John,
We hear it from the gun lobby constantly: “a good guy with a gun” is best to stop an active shooter. But how often does a normal citizen armed with a gun actually end an active shooter situation?
Spoiler alert: Almost never.
According to FBI data on the 160 documented active shooter incidents from 2000-2013:
→ Only 5 were stopped by armed citizens.
→ And of those, 1 (one) was a shooter that died by suicide.
→ That’s 3% of all active shooters ended by an armed citizen.
By contrast, 21 active shooter incidents were stopped by unarmed citizens.
→ That’s more than four times (4X) as many incidents stopped by an unarmed person!
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John, the truth is that most active shooter incidents end by the active shooter’s initiative. They either surrender to law enforcement, die by suicide, or are killed in a gun battle.
Our opponents and the NRA are certainly entitled to their own opinions, but they’re not entitled to make up their own facts.
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