A new report released by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) shows an impressive 34.4% of active shootings were thwarted by armed citizens between 2014 and 2021. Not surprisingly, FBI reported only 4.4% of active shootings were thwarted by armed citizens during that same time period.
The CPRC argues that the FBI’s data contains “massive errors” when tracking active shooting incidents that they say looks like a pattern of distortion.
“Although collecting such data is fraught with challenges, some see a pattern of distortion in the FBI numbers because the errors almost exclusively go one way, minimizing the life-saving actions of armed citizens,” Crime Prevention Research Center founder and president John Lott, states.
