Why are the FBI and the media lying about what happened? FBI has underreported defensive gun use to congress.
Dr. John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) and a world-renowned specialist on guns and crime, testified before a Congressional subcommittee on violence in mid-December and revealed some shocking findings. One of the most significant was that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concealed the knowledge that armed civilians routinely use their firearms to stop active shooter incidents.
Lott testified (read below) before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security that the FBI substantially underreported the number of times armed people halted active shooters from 2014 to 2021.
Lott informed the subcommittee that the FBI employed scholars from Texas State University to identify news stories about occurrences wherein armed civilians prevented active shooter instances (characterized by t...