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« A look at upcoming 2A Supreme Court petitions | Main | Thoughts on the "bombs" »

John Lott on the FBI's "active shooter" statistics

Posted by David Hardy · 24 October 2018 10:20 AM

Here's his article in Real Clear Politics. The FBI figures indicate only one mass slaying stopped by a concealed carry permit holder (to be fair they do include several others stopped by an armed citizen whose permit status is unknown). John discovered several cases they had overlooked, and asked why. Their answer was that they exclude cases where the killer had a grudge against a specific person, i.e., wasn't trying to kill random people. To which Lott responded that (1) in the case he points to, the killer also fired on random people and (2) their overall count of mass slayings includes several cases where the attacker had a specific grudge.

FBI's response was to pass the buck: the decision to count or not count a case is made by consensus among some unnamed committee.

2 Comments | Leave a comment

old guy | October 25, 2018 7:14 AM | Reply

Sorry it doesn't fit the narrative - can't admit that those with CCP actually are good

Mark-1 | October 25, 2018 7:45 AM | Reply

Yup. Salting the official record for that desired outcome.

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