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Teddy bears and flowers are sit as a memorial outside of the Greenwood Park Mall food court, in Greenwood, Ind., on July 18, 2022. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images) The shooting that killed three people and injured another at a Greenwood, Indiana, mall on July 17 drew broad national attention because of how it ended—when 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken, carrying a licensed handgun, fatally shot the attacker.
While Dicken was praised for his courage and skill—squeezing off his first shot 15 seconds after the attack began, from a distance of 40 yards—much of the news coverage drew from FBI-approved statistics to assert that armed citizens almost never stop such attackers: “ Rare in 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).
Evidence compiled by the organization I run, the Crime Prevention Research Center , and others suggest that the FBI undercounts by an order of more than three the number of instances in which armed citizens have thwarted such attacks, saving untold numbers of lives. Although those many news stories about the Greenwood shooting also suggested that the defensive use of guns might endanger others, there is no evidence that these acts have harmed innocent victims.
“So much of our public understanding of this issue is malformed by this single agency,” notes Theo Wold, former acting assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice. “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.”
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