FBI Underreports Defensive Gun Use to Congress
Posted By: DVC, 1/7/2023 12:15:24 AM
In mid-December, Dr. John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) and a world-recognized expert on guns and crime, testified before a Congressional subcommittee on violence and made some startling revelations. Perhaps one of the most important was that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) covered up the fact that armed citizens use their guns quite frequently to stop active shooter attacks. According to Lott’s testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, the FBI grossly underreported the number of times armed citizens had stopped active shooters.
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More FBI intentional lying to Congress. Note that the Crime Prevention Research Center found that there were 30 cases of legally armed civilians stopping mass shootings since Jan 2020, but in that time frame, 17 public shootings of more than four people happened.
This indicates that armed citizens stopped just under 2/3 of all mass shootings. Think about that for a moment. The FBI says 4.4%, the CPRC says 64%. And the FBI is LYING, again.
The critical news is that our PRIMARY defense against mass shootings is actually legally armed citizens, and the media and FBI are covering it up.