Dr. John Lott appeared on The Miller Report: Actual Clear Journalism to debate the true numbers behind armed residents stopping shootings. See additionally Dr. Lott’s new investigative piece primarily based on our analysis at Actual Clear Investigations titled “Unaccountable: The FBI’s Unusual Refusal to Repair Key Crime Stats.”
(Thursday, October 9, 2025)
A serious discrepancy in FBI knowledge is elevating new questions on how America tracks gun violence. On this episode of The Miller Report: Actual Clear Journalism, Maggie Miller sits down with economist and head of the Crime Prevention Analysis Heart John R. Lott Jr. to debate his newest investigation into the FBI’s flawed accounting of energetic shooter incidents as regards to armed civilians stopping shooters.
Lott’s analysis reveals that for over a decade, the FBI has drastically undercounted how typically armed civilians cease energetic shooters — recording only a handful of instances whereas impartial evaluation discovered dozens extra. We talk about why these numbers matter, what’s behind the FBI’s reluctance to appropriate the document, and the way unhealthy knowledge can distort coverage on gun-free zones and public notion.
The total investigation full with a hyperlink to the Crime Analysis Prevention Heart’s research exhibiting the missed instances of the FBI might be discovered right here.
Maggie Miller, “The FBI’s Flawed Knowledge: The Actual Numbers Behind Armed Residents Stopping Shootings,” The Miller Report: Actual Clear Journalism, October 9, 2025.
