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FBI reveals how many active shooters were stopped by citizens

May 27, 2022 | | Print Article

Harold Hutchison, DCNF

The FBI announced Monday that citizens stopped six active shooters in 2021, according to a report on active shooting incidents.

Citizens stopped six active shooters, whom the FBI defines as “one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area,” in 2021, killing four of them, according to the report, “Active Shooter Incidents In The United States In 2021.” There were 61 active shooter incidents in 2021, 12 of which met the FBI’s criteria for a “mass killing,” up from 40 the previous year.

“The active aspect of the definition inherently implies the ongoing nature of an incident, and thus the potential for the response to affect the outcome, whereas a mass killing is defined as three or more killings in a single incident,” the FBI said in a Monday release.

In one incident, armed employees at the Jefferson Gun Outlet in Metairie, Louisiana, returned fire after an active shooter killed two people and injured two others on Feb. 20, 2021, the report said.

Citizens detained an active shooter in the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego on April 22, 2021, according to the report. In Rigby, Idaho, a middle school teacher disarmed a 12-year-old female student who was firing a handgun on May 6, 2021 at a middle school.

An armed citizen killed an active shooter in an incident outside the Three Corners Townhouses in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on May 15, 2021, the report said.

An active shooter killed two people and wounded another on Oct. 21, 2021, before an armed employee fatally shot the shooter at Agrex Elevator in Superior, Nebraska, the report said.

The FBI report noted that 14 active shooters were killed by law enforcement, 11 committed suicide, 30 were taken into custody, one was killed in a car crash and one was still at large.

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  2. I talked about this with a friend this week who brought up Buffalo and how the security guard confronted the shooter head on! That may be heroic but its dangerous! You confront him with your gun locked and loaded from a protected position where you can still get off a shot but he can’t just shoot you in cold blood!

  3. So armed citizens stopped 10% of active shooters in 2021. Maybe we should tie gun ownership to being in a well regulated and trained militia to protect the homeland. That might help. Where have you heard this before?

    1. Most of us are a WELL ARMED Citizens Militia and we love our country and we will protect our fellow Citizens without fear of being shot ourselves.

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