Stopping active shooters: Civilians and Police

 From the Crime Prevention Research Center (John Lott)

 Here is the link.

 https://crimeresearch.org/2025/02/a-deep-dive-into-cases-where-civilians-stopped-active-shooters-did-they-accidentally-shoot-bystanders-get-in-the-way-of-police-get-their-gun-taken-away-or-more/

 Here is an excerpt.

 

A Deep Dive into Cases Where Civilians Stopped Active Shooters 2014 to 2023
	Number of the 180 cases  that had this result	Percent
Accidentally shot a bystander	1	0.56%
Got in the way of police	0	0.00%
had the gun taken away from them	1	0.56%
Civilian stopping the attack is shot and wounded	44	24.44%
Civilian stopping the attack is shot and killed	2	1.11%

 

A Deep Dive in Cases Where Police Stopped Active Shooters 2014 to 2023
	Number of the 350 cases  that had this result	Percent
Accidentally shot another police officer  or wrong civilian	4	1.14%
Got in way of Police	N/A	N/A
had the gun taken from them	0	0%
police are shot and wounded	100	28.57%
Police are shot and killed	27	7.71%