The FBI’s New “Active Shooter” Report Further Debunks the “Good Guy with a Gun” Myth

Jonathan Rigsby
4 min readJul 20, 2021
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A new edition of an annual report by the FBI catalogs a curiously American phenomenon: active shooter incidents. The report lists 40 active shooter incidents in 2020 and shows that the vast majority of them ended because of intervention by trained professionals. Just 3 incidents were stopped by people other than law enforcement. Of those 3, two…

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Jonathan Rigsby

Author and rideshare driver in Tallahassee, FL. Habitual Tweeter @ride_trips