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| Report: Armed Citizens Stopped 36.6 Percent of ‘Active Shooter Incidents' From 2014 Through 2025 |
| 2026-10-26 |
| [BB] A report by Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) president John Lott shows armed citizens stopped a third of all “active shooter incidents” from 2014 through 2025. Lott then presented the CPRC data as a correction to FBI reports which claim armed citizens only topped 3.9 percent of the incidents. He noted that during his time in the Department of Justice during President Trump’s first term, his duties “included evaluating the FBI’s active-shooter reports.” In so doing, he “discovered that the reports omitted or misclassified numerous cases in which armed civilians stopped attacks.” Lott noted the FBI identified 418 “active shooter incidents” from 2014 through 2025 and credited armed citizens with stopping only 16 of them. CPRC, on the other hand, “identified 615 active-shooter incidents from 2014 through 2025 and found that armed citizens stopped 225 of them.” Moreover, Lott wrote, “We excluded another 35 cases in which law-abiding armed citizens stopped attackers before they could fire a shot.” Lott made clear the impetus for releasing this information was the establishment media’s coverage of the armed father who stopped the October 15, 2026, Silver Rail Elementary School attack. He pointed to an AP report on the incident which began, “Few mass shootings in the U.S. end like the deadly attack on an Oregon elementary school: with an armed civilian opening fire on the gunman.” The AP gets information on “active shooter incidents” from the same database the FBI uses. Related: Crime Prevention Research Center: 2026-02-24 Trans Shooters Commit ‘Disproportionate Shares of Mass Public and Active Shooting Attacks' Crime Prevention Research Center: 2026-02-13 A former BLM activist goes all in on mass incarceration Crime Prevention Research Center: 2025-04-18 A Eye-Opening Study on Civilian Response to Active Shooters — Bearing Arms Related: Active shooter incident 05/12/2026 Suspected roadway gunman with reported criminal history sparks outrage after drivers shot Active shooter incident 12/13/2025 FBI: California Led Nation in ‘Active Shooter Incidents' 2020-2024 Active shooter incident 04/18/2025 A Eye-Opening Study on Civilian Response to Active Shooters — Bearing Arms |
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