Woman exposed the FBI for what the didn't do under Biden

The claim that armed citizens stopped 48% of active shooters last year originates from reports by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC). According to the CPRC’s 2025 analysis of 2024 data, armed civilians stopped approximately 47.8% of active shooting attacks.

The figure is highly contested due to significant differences in methodology between private researchers and federal agencies:

The CPRC argues that federal data misses many successful interventions by excluding incidents where a citizen stopped a shooter before they could open fire or where the event was not officially labeled an "active shooter" incident. Their data suggests that in areas where citizens are legally allowed to carry firearms (excluding "gun-free zones"), the intervention rate rises above 50%.

In contrast, official FBI reports for the same period state that armed citizens intervened in only about 3.7% to 4.4% of active shooter cases. The FBI uses a much narrower definition, counting only incidents where an individual is "actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated, public area" and typically excluding events related to other crimes like drug turf wars or robberies.