“Between 2014 and 2024, FBI reports determined that armed citizens stopped 14 of 374 active shooter incidents its researchers identified — or 3.7% — with zero defensive gun use cases occurring in the two most recent years,” Lott reports.
Lott notes an issue with the FBI’s definition of active shooter incidents: “In 2022, the FBI reported that only 11 of the 252 active shooter incidents it identified for the period 2014-2021, or 4.4%, were stopped by an armed citizen.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/121648-the-fbis-gun-data-fail-2025-10-13
