Donnachaidh wrote:The link you provide has 23 mass shooting have been stopped by armed citizens in the last 22 years. According to CBS there have been 255 mass shootings in 2019 (as of August 5, 2019 9:34 PM; mass shooting defined as "any incident in which at least four people were shot, excluding the shooter"). That is less than 10% of the shootings of this year alone.
It's also a pretty creative use of the word "prevented" when you read the accounts. A lot of them are either:
1. Shooter opens fire and shoots multiple people.
2. Shooter runs away.
3. Someone with a gun later shoots him after pursuing him fleeing the shooting he hads already completed.
Or...
1. Shooter opens fire and shoots multiple people.
2. Someone with a gun eventually fires back.
In neither of those cases has a mass shooting been prevented. In one of those scenarios exactly squat has been prevented and in the other a mass shooting was at best interrupted.
They really need to mangle the meaning of the word to try to claim there is any significant number of incidents of a mass shooting being PREVENTED by armed citizens because that's just a ridiculously rare thing to happen. For obvious reasons.