FBI ‘Active Shooter’ Report Supports ‘Good Guy with a Gun’ Claims

It’s curious the Bureau made an editorial decision to emphasize an investigation it’s being so tight-lipped about.

A recently released report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation credits armed citizens with saving lives. “Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2016 and 2017” was released  in April, and provides hard evidence that gun-grabbers who ridicule the efficacy of keeping and bearing arms are demonstrably agenda-driven liars.

“The FBI has designated 50 shootings in 2016 and 2017 as active shooter incidents,” the report summarizes. “Twenty incidents occurred in 2016, while 30 incidents occurred in 2017.

“The FBI defines an active shooter as one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area,” the report continues. “Implicit in this definition is the shooter’s use of one or more firearms. The active aspect of the definition inherently implies that both law enforcement personnel and citizens have the potential to affect the outcome of the event based upon their responses to the situation. “

And how have citizens “affected the outcome”?

“Eight shooters were stopped by citizens,” the report documents, up from six credited in a 2014/2015 report:

“In four incidents, citizens possessing valid firearms permits successfully stopped the shooter. In two incidents, citizens exchanged gunfire with the shooter. In two incidents, the citizens held the shooter at gunpoint until law enforcement arrived. In one incident, a citizen possessing a valid firearms permit exchanged gunfire with the shooter, causing the shooter to flee to another scene and continue shooting. In one incident, a citizen possessing a valid firearms permit was wounded before he could fire at the shooter.”

That’s a pretty good record, especially considering how the doctrinaire gun-grabbers scoff at the idea, say it never happens, and claim “untrained” people would either end up getting killed or killing innocents themselves.

It also belies charges that gun owners are violent and bloodthirsty, just looking for an excuse to kill someone. The reported incidents reflect appropriate actions and judgment, and while it’s true that one citizen was wounded, no one has ever claimed having a gun makes someone invincible – what it can do (and based on results does) is offer a better chance than being defenseless and helpless.

What the report does not do is specify which locations where armed citizens did not help stop a shooter were so-called “gun-free zones.” We can make educated guesses about some of the incidents, such as school shootings, but as presented it’s difficult to extrapolate on lives that could have been saved had an armed presence been encouraged rather than forbidden by ignorance and/or law.

As things stand, there’s no reason to doubt the potential for more saves, and it’s up to anyone who disputes that to produce proof that the FBI is wrong when it acknowledges:

“Armed and unarmed citizens engaged the shooter in 10 incidents. They safely and successfully ended the shootings in eight of those incidents. Their selfless actions likely saved many lives.”

There is, however, one major flaw in the report that defenders of gun owner rights should be sensitive to. Jeff Knox, director of The Firearms Coalition advocates that using the term “active shooter” to describe scumbag murderers is wrong and ought to be reclaimed by the real – and peaceable – active shooters.

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Chief Flynn Excuses Failure of Law to Hold Criminals Accountable by Lowering Bar for Citizen Disarmament

Chief Flynn’s enthusiasm for gun owner control hardly seems consistent with the oath he took. (WISN 12 News YouTube screenshot)

“Wisconsin Police Chief dismantles gun lobby-backed law that lets criminals carry concealed guns,” #ResistTheGunLobby claims. “In a new video, Now This highlights Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn’s struggle to protect his community as a result of a gun lobby-backed law that lets criminals with multiple misdemeanors carry loaded, concealed guns in public.”

Before we get into this further, let’s look at how twisted up these people get everything just as a matter of course. Corroborating the truism that for “progressives,” every day is Opposite Day, it should come as no surprise that the #Resist hashtag is invariably used by those advocating for a state monopoly of violence. What they’re resisting is the true egalitarian power sharing that can only be achieved through an armed citizenry.  You know, freedom.

And that’s not surprising, because #ResistTheGunLobby is a subsidiary effort of Mark Kelly’s and Gabby Giffords’ Opposite Day-named Americans for Responsible Solutions. Seeing that citizen disarmament is neither American nor responsible, it figures an Astroturf operation would disparage populist efforts by citizens banding together to petition for redress of grievances.  As Jeff Knox of The Firearms Coalition reminds the elitist press:

“Let me make something perfectly clear: The NRA is not the Gun Lobby. Neither is the NSSF, nor the GOA, nor even The Firearms Coalition, nor the hundreds of grassroots and activist organizations or the thousands of local gun clubs. I am the Gun Lobby. Whenever you talk about the Gun Lobby, you are talking about me.”

That’s who Mark and Gun-Grabby Gabby are really resisting. So it’s no surprise they would pick an oath-breaking political appointee as their voice of experience. Economist and author Thomas Sowell wrote a perceptive comparison between Chief Flynn and Milwaukee Country Sheriff David Clarke, noting:

“Chief Flynn puts less emphasis on aggressive police action and more on community outreach and gun control. Sheriff David Clarke represents an opposite tradition, in which the job of the police is to enforce the law, as forcefully as necessary, not to make excuses for law-breaking or to ease up on enforcing the law, in hopes that this will mollify rioters. Sheriff Clarke would also like to see law-abiding blacks be armed.”

Flynn’s emphasis is evident in the video ARS features, in which he almost sounds like he knows what he‘s talking about to those who don’t know how to read between the lines. He starts out by talking about rights for “the law-abiding.” That’s meant to sound “reasonable” and “common sense,” and make a mainstream audience receptive to what he says next, which is anything but:

“Now in Milwaukee, the overwhelming majority of our arrested felons plead guilty to misdemeanors – they get a plea bargain,” Flynn admits. “And I get it, the system’s overwhelmed with arrests. But the problem is, when they passed the law in Wisconsin, they only said convicted felons can’t qualify for a gun permit, so I’ve got armed career criminals with concealed permits guarding drug dealers – we call them ‘human holsters.’ They’re sitting in their car with three felons and they’re carrying three guns. Okay? That’s a crazy law … It’s an irresponsible law passed by irresponsible legislatures who are more interested in ideological points and I’d sure as hell like some more community outrage about that because that’s what’s driving the violence in this city and too many public officials are silent on it.”

In other words, because Milwaukee won’t hold criminals accountable for their actions, the solution is to lower the bar for what it takes to disarm citizens. And attack those who disagree as crazy and irresponsible. Standard gun-grabber M.O…

“Flynn’s reply was completely inaccurate — and, by all accounts, borderline insane,” United States Concealed Carry Association Founder Tim Schmidt observed (as documented on M14Forum.com).  “As it turns out, I’m not the only one who found Chief Flynn’s statement so far off base as to be almost unbelievable. Mike Crivello, president of the Milwaukee Police Association, retorted:

‘I have never had a conversation with you, Chief, relative to you displaying that we are arresting an overwhelming amount of people, or even one person, who’s committed a crime while carrying a CCW (permit).’”

Leave it to people whose whole existence depends on disinformation and distortion to brag that such a delusional fabrication “dismantles” the “gun lobby.” Or to have as their great example of “resistance” and virtue a uniformed enforcer and a man who wouldn’t keep his vows. It’s small wonder his oath is treated with similar “fidelity.”

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