Does the FBI fiddle with statistics to secure the narrative they want to push? With trust in the FBI at an all-time low, especially after the KGB-style raid they conducted against President Trump, most would answer a resounding “yes!” without giving it a second thought.
Even with that mistrust, we must do our due diligence to understand the facts.
According to a report by RealClear Investigations, the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) and other organizations have compiled evidence that the FBI “undercounts by order of more than three the number of instances in which armed citizens have thwarted” mass killings.
The fact that the legacy media readily accepts the flawed data (thus narrative) from the FBI can be seen from the coverage of the incident on July 17 at a mall in Greenwood, Indiana. On that day, a mass shooter killed three people before he was stopped by 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken, a legally armed citizen, just 15 seconds into the attack. The fast reaction and sharpshooting skills of Elisjsha saved innocent lives.
“Rare in the US for an active shooter to be stopped by bystander” (Associated Press); “Rampage in Indiana a rare instance of armed civilian ending mass shooting” (Washington Post); and “After Indiana mall shooting, one hero but no lasting solution to gun violence” (New York Times).”
The inaccuracy of the FBI is important, as many law enforcement agencies and policymakers rely on the data to drive policies and are pressured by the media narrative to act based on that data. Add to that the gun-grabbing state of mind of the liberal democrats and their enablers in the legacy media, and the dangers of a false narrative based on flawed data become clear– infringement of our 2nd Amendment rights.
In the words of Theo Wold, a former U.S. Department of Justice acting assistant attorney general: “When the Bureau gets it so systematically – and persistently – wrong, the cascading effect is incredibly deleterious. The FBI exerts considerable influence over state and local law enforcement and policymakers at all levels of government.”
So what is the difference between FBI statistics and reality?
“The Bureau reports that only 11 of the 252 active shooter incidents it identified for the period 2014-2021 were stopped by an armed citizen. An analysis by my organization [CPRC] identified a total of 281 active shooter incidents during that same period and found that 41 of them were stopped by an armed citizen.”
“That is, the FBI reported that 4.4% of active shooter incidents were thwarted by armed citizens, while the CPRC found 14.6%.”
The CPRC attributes the FBI’s flawed data to “misclassified shootings” and “overlooked incidents.”