UPDATED: Cases where armed citizens have stopped active shooter incidents

UPDATED: Cases where armed citizens have stopped active shooter incidents

The list of active shooting cases that were averted by people legally carrying guns, and were missed in the FBI Active Shooting reports. The FBI’s definition of active shootings is narrow: it involves cases where a gun is fired in public and not part of some other crime like a gang fight over drug turf or a robbery. It includes cases from one person being shot at and missed to a mass public shooting. Our original write-up on this problem is avai…