Good guys with guns stop far more shootings than FBI reports: Study
Mercedes Perez crashed her car into another car on a San Antonio street in 2021, then jumped out with a gun and began blazing away at neighbors who came out to see what had happened.
The FBI’s conclusions are widely cited, particularly as new shootings revive old debates about gun control and whether more access to weapons is safer or more dangerous. Then there are the judgment calls about what meets the definition of an active shooter case. The FBI says it’s supposed to be when a gun is used in a confrontation outside of a criminal incident such as domestic violence or drug dealing. There are also judgment calls about who qualifies as a regular citizen, or “good guy.” The FBI says a security guard doesn’t count.In 2019, for example, the FBI counted 30 active-shooter incidents and said none was stopped by an armed citizen.
“It appears that Mr. Morose saved the lives of several individuals,” the district attorney’s office said, according to Syracuse.com.Another August 2021 case the bureau left out of its calculations involved a man, upset at a Florida barber shop, who came in with a gun and pointed it at customers. The barbershop owner shot the man in the hip, then other patrons disarmed him, according to a report by Florida Today.
The FBI, in a statement to The Times, said it “works proactively” to spot incidents that should be included. But it acknowledged limitations to its efforts. In reviewing one 2019 case Mr. Lott flagged, in which a man opened fire at a dental office in Tennessee, a patient used his concealed weapon to shoot and then detain the attacker. ALERRT told The Post that because the attacker was shooting his wife, it was a domestic incident and therefore didn’t qualify under the active shooter database rules.
The FBI has updated its report regularly in the years since. From 2014 to 2021, it has counted 252 active-shooter incidents and says 11 were stopped by an armed citizen — or 4.4% of the time.
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