UPDATED: New Research: Do Armed Civilians Stop Active Shooters More Effectively Than Uniformed Police?

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The FBI tracks energetic taking pictures circumstances—the place people try and kill individuals in public locations, excluding these tied to robberies or gang violence. This research is the primary to systematically evaluate how uniformed police and civilians with hid handgun permits carry out in stopping these assaults. Civilians with permits stopped the assaults extra regularly and confronted a decrease threat of being killed or injured than police. Officers who intervened throughout the assaults had been much more more likely to be killed or injured than those that apprehended the attackers later. We additionally present proof that these numbers considerably underestimate some great benefits of civilians over officers in stopping these assaults. If an identification drawback exists, it goes in the wrong way of our outcomes and biases the outcomes in opposition to exhibiting advantages of armed civilians.

John R. Lott, Jr. and Carl E. Moody, “Do Armed Civilians Cease Lively Shooters Extra Successfully Than Uniformed Police?” Social Science Analysis Community, April 4, 2025.