FBI Data Shows Armed Citizens Have 94% Success Rate Stopping Would-Be Mass Shooters

[Bfatz]

Feel free to email to your local Hackorama...

 

[Enzo]

You won’t hear about this on any media outlet except maybe Fox.

 

[SpaceCritter]

I'm not seeing a link, so what differentiates "stopped" from "saved lives" ??

I mean, doesn't the former almost certainly imply the latter?

 

[milktree]

I'm not seeing a link, so what differentiates "stopped" from "saved lives" ??

I mean, doesn't the former almost certainly imply the latter?

I read that as "stopped" is a superset that includes "saved lives", while "saved lives" means "failed to stop, but still slowed down..."

 

[milktree]

I'd love to see the source data for this.

EDIT:

I typed prematurely. duckduckgo.com found it for me:

Armed Citizens Are Successful 94% Of The Time At Active Shooter Events [FBI]

complete with links to the FBI data.

 

[Fixxah]

Heads exploding as the replies come in.

 

[Boston4567]

I'm not seeing a link, so what differentiates "stopped" from "saved lives" ??

I mean, doesn't the former almost certainly imply the latter?

I'm assuming "stopped" = no fatalities and "saved lives" = some fatalities.

 

[Pete85]

I'm not seeing a link, so what differentiates "stopped" from "saved lives" ??

I mean, doesn't the former almost certainly imply the latter?

My thought would be that "Stopped" means the armed citizen killed or incapacitated the bad guy, ending the shooting, and "Saved Lives" means a situation where the armed citizen failed to end the shooting but prevented additional loss of life, such as covering people escaping, suppressing the shooter for a time until backup arrived, etc. Every time the shooter was stopped, lives were saved, but the reverse is not necessarily true. Lives could be saved without actually stopping the shooter.