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After a review by the Crime Prevention Research Center, they found that armed "good Samaritans" stopped as many as 62% of all active-shooter incidents. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has somehow managed to record that number as being just 3.7%.
This comes from data collected by the Center from 2014-2024. They shared their data on X while calling out the FBI's faulty data.
Dr. Greg Fremin, a former captain with the Houston Police Department, also suggested that this faulty FBI data could be a result of a political agenda. He said, "There were probably some nefarious things happening within the FBI, possibly during the Biden Administration, to support this ideology of tighter gun controls."
Dr. Fremin went on to say that this new data is a prime example of why the Second Amendment is so important. According to Dr. Fremin, "You have armed thugs, some of them operating independently or as organizations, and they're going around terrorizing people. Thank God for people who step up."
He called the modern violent crime crisis that we've seen spread across the United States in recent years a form of "anarcho-tyranny" and says that while the Founding Fathers likely wouldn't have ever imagined things getting this bad, this is exactly the type of situation that they prepared us for by instituting the Second Amendment.
Fremin also emphasized the importance of not just carrying a firearm for self-defense, but also using situational awareness and taking the time to learn how and when to use a firearm properly, warning that if you aren't careful, you could become a statistic.