How often does a 'good guy with a gun' end an attack? - NewsNation

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An armed civilian stopped attacks by shooting the suspect in 24 of the 464 attacks recorded, about 5% of all events. Wife, husband among Indiana mall victims; gunman identified "Properly trained folks with a high level of vigilance are able to sometimes, in very rare circumstances, support public safety in those moments," said Phil Andrew ...

How Often Do Police Stop Active Shooters? - The New York Times

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/22/us/shootings-police-response-uvalde-buffalo.html     2022-06-22
June 22, 2022. An earlier version of a chart with this article misstated the number of times in 433 separate active shooter attacks that the shooter left the scene and the number of times police ...

Hero armed citizen landed 8 of 10 shots at 40 yards to stop mass ...

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Eli Dicken, the armed citizen who stopped a mass shooter in an Indiana mall on Sunday, was carrying a pistol under the state's recently enacted constitutional carry law, which went into effect on July 1.Just 15 seconds after the mass shooter opened fire, Dicken steadied himself on a pole and fired eight to 10 shots, striking the gunman from 40 yards away, police said.

Armed 'hero' stopped mass shooter at Indiana mall - BBC

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Armed 'hero' stopped mass shooter at Indiana mall. Many more people would have died during a mass shooting in the US state of Indiana on Sunday night if not for the "heroic" actions of a bystander ...

How Often Do People Use Guns In Self-Defense? - NPR

www.npr.org/2018/04/13/602143823/how-often-do-people-use-guns-in-self-defense     2018-04-13
The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. It's a common refrain touted by gun rights advocates, who argue that using guns in self-defense can help save lives.

What cops need to consider about armed citizens - Police1

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Communication is key. While en route to a call, ask the dispatcher to get clarifying information about the suspect and his actions, and ask if there are any armed "good guys" on scene. Ask the same questions of the people you encounter upon arrival, and LISTEN to the answers. In several of the incidents listed above, there's evidence that ...

Defensive Gun Use Statistics: America's Life-Saving Gun Incidents (2024)

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Reports consistently show that there are between 60,000 and 2,500,000 defensive gun uses per year. There are an average of 1,820,000 defensive gun uses per year compared to 1,100,000 reported crimes. Only 2.07 million civilians regularly carry a firearm for defense. Civilians are 85% more likely to use a firearm for defense than to be murdered ...

More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes, Evidence Shows

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Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun. Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz in Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology , Vol. 86, No. 1, pages 150-187; 1995.

Why 'Good Guys With Guns' Fail to Stop Mass Shootings - TIME

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In the May 14 mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York supermarket, Aaron Salter—an armed security guard and former police officer —was hailed for his efforts at trying to protect others. At least ...

Reducing gun violence: Stanford scholars tackle the issue

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Uncovering the causes of gun violence has been a challenge, in part because research is limited by federal legislation that constrains research funding on the issue. Scholar Nigam Shah at the ...

Bystander and Security Response | RAND - RAND Corporation

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The majority of these cases (9 of 11) were the result of armed security guards or off-duty officers; there were only two cases of civilian bystanders using firearms. One does not need a gun to stop a mass shooter. Of the 56 successful or partly successful interventions, 80 percent (45 cases) did not involve armed defense.

Teachers learn to use guns to stop school shootings - WHYY

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According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly half of public schools in the U.S. have some form of armed law enforcement. And armed school resource officers have stopped shootings. Yet studies have found that the presence of a gun-holding resource officer seems to have no effect on the likelihood or severity of an attack.

Debunking the 'Guns Make Us Safer' Myth

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On April 13, 2023, 16-year-old Ralph Yarl was sent to pick up his younger twin brothers from a friend's home when an address mix-up nearly cost him his life. After confusing Northeast 115th ...

Fact checking Donald Trump's statements about Jan. 6 : NPR

www.npr.org/2024/10/29/nx-s1-5159868/2024-election-trump-harris-capitol-riot     2024-10-29
Court records indicate that, at a minimum, around 20 participants in the attack were armed with firearms, though it's impossible to know the exact number, because law enforcement made so few ...

New Cases of Armed Citizens Stopping Criminals in February

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Feb. 12: A homeowner in Jackson County, Georgia, heard someone trying to break into her house through a window. She found a man standing outside and warned him not to come into the house ...

A guard stopped a gunman from entering a Buffalo methadone clinic - NPR

www.npr.org/2022/11/15/1136617873/buffalo-clinic-gunman-ar15-guard-police     2022-11-15
Jeremy Griffin enters the lobby of he Alba de Vida substance abuse treatment clinic holding an AR-15. Courtesy of Buffalo Police. On Thursday morning, a man walked into the lobby of the Alba de ...

PolitiFact | No, government data does not say that defensive gun use ...

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PolitiFact, Trump-backed ex-pitcher Curt Schilling misleads saying self-defense gun use stops 2.5 million crimes, Aug. 14, 2019 Email exchange, Gary Kleck, professor emeritus of criminology ...

Cases where armed citizens have stopped active shooter incidents

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A 19-year-old woman went to meet the ex to return his gun. But, when she saw him on the street, he charged at her holding his own gun. She opened fire to stop the attack. Cape Coral, Florida: June 1, 2018: On June 1, a concealed carry permit holder in Cape Coral, Florida, shot a convicted felon who had pulled a firearm on employees of a roofing ...

At the Washington Times: FBI data on good guys with guns called ...

crimeresearch.org/2023/03/at-the-washington-times-fbi-data-on-good-guys-with-guns-called-garbage-as-critic-finds-many-more-cases/
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. Mr. Lott's numbers for that period are 360 incidents, with 124 stopped by a good guy with a gun — or 34.4% of the time.

At Real Clear Investigations: There Are Far More Defensive Gun Uses ...

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The media covered this attack, but repeatedly described the parishioners who stopped further bloodshed as "security guards." "These were not security professionals, just members of the church designated as security personnel as a kind of honorary title," Jack Wilson, the church member credited with stopping the attack, told RCI. Wilson ...

Man pleads guilty to aggravated assault of Saint John officer in ...

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They saw Clarke remove a long gun from a cabinet with bolt cutters, Knee said. The officers told Clarke to stop, but he started to run. Olde Damink directed Woodman to deploy his Taser.
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