The CDC, FBI, and legacy media are conspiring to “debunk” the truth that armed, law-abiding citizens prevent crime and stop mass shootings.
For years, Democrats and anti-gunners have sought to disprove the so-called “good guy with a gun myth” in order to advance their gun control agenda.
However, John R. Lott, Jr. and the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) have put years of research behind into this study of “good guys with guns.”
In fact, the CPRC estimates that law-abiding citizens with guns have stopped over 35 percent of active shootings over the last decade and even 39.6 in the last five years.
However, the FBI’s numbers don’t match.
The FBI defines an active shooter attack as occurring when an individual actively kills or attempts to kill people in a populated, public area. This measure includes everything from just one person shot at, even if the target isn’t hit, to a mass public shooting.
It doesn’t include, however, shootings involving other crimes, such as robbery or fighting over drug turf.
To compile its list, the FBI hired researchers at Texas State University. Police departments don’t record these cases, so the researchers relied on Google searches to find news stories about these incidents.
As such, the FBI’s evidence relies on a dataset that is actively hostile to the truth.
John R. Lott, Jr. even worked as the senior advisor for research and statistics for the U.S. Department of Justice, which included evaluating the FBI’s active shooting reports.
During his time with the DOJ, Lott discovered that the FBI either missed or misidentified many cases of civilians using guns to stop attacks.
To compare, the FBI reports that armed citizens only stopped 14 of 350 active shooter cases that it identified between 2014 and 2023, compared to the CPRC’s numbers of 180 out of 515 cases.
The CPRC’s numbers even excluded 27 cases where a law-abiding citizen with a gun stopped an attacker before he could fire a shot.
Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) under the Biden Administration has also sought to suppress data proving that armed citizens help prevent crime by removing its estimates of defensive gun uses from its own website.
Previously, the CDC referenced a 2013 National Academies of Sciences report noting that people used guns to stop crime anywhere from about 64,000 to 3 million times a year.
Lott says the decision was taken after gun control activist Mark Bryant, founder of the Gun Violence Archive, lobbied the CDC to remove “misinformation” regarding defensive gun use estimates because of they are cited by “gun rights folks” to stop gun control legislation.
Soon after, the CDC took down these estimates and now lists no numbers.
Read more at The Federalist.
