This past week we released new research on the massive errors in the FBI's active shooting reports. The FBI claims over the eight years from 2014 to 2021, there were just eleven instances where news stories mentioned people legally using guns to stop attacks. By contrast, we show that there are at least 124 cases -- more than ten times the FBI claims. That is using the same definition that the FBI used. Unfortunately, the problems don't end there. I have tried to explain to the FBI staff why they should differentiate attacks that occur in gun-free zones from attacks where people can defend themselves because law-abiding people are unlikely to carry where a gun is banned. But I had no success. To give you an idea of the magnitude of these numbers, in 2021, over 59% of active shooting attacks in places where people were allowed to carry were stopped by armed civilians. However, people don't need to take our word for it. We provide the list of cases and links to each case so that people can check them out themselves.

Fox News, the Washington Examiner, Breitbart, and Sinclair Broadcasting, with its many affiliates across the country, were among the places that wrote up news stories on research. I did a very useful television interview on News Nation and a radio interview with Vince Coglianese on WMAL in Washington, DC.

The US DOJ gave $66.9 million to the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State University. They won't say how much of that they spent finding those eleven cases, but whatever it cost, it was too much.

Of course, entertainment TV pushes the same narrative. This past week one episode of CBS' FBI Most Wanted had two cases where a defensive gun use went wrong.

Other work was published at Real Clear Politics and shows that the people who support gun control are the least well-informed about gun crime and gun-free zones. I think that piece turned out well, and that was the second study we did this week which got picked up in a news story by Fox News. A third news story at Fox News talked to me about the crime problems in Wilmington, Delaware.

I also had a letter this week in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the dangers of gun-free zones and an op-ed the previous week in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Another op-ed that I had this past Tuesday in the Washington Times discussed the implications of our work matching the number of voters who voted with the number of ballots cast. A vote fraud case from Philadelphia exemplifies how the data can catch vote fraud. In addition, we did interviews with radio stations from Los Angeles, Connecticut's WATR, Iowa's KSCJ, Colorado, and the Michigan Talk Network.

In case you didn't hear, there were two big school shootings in Russia and Thailand. In Russia, 17 people died. In Thailand, 36 people died.

We have continued updating our list of someone legally carrying a gun stopping what likely would have been mass public shootings and updating our collection of entrainment TV's bias against gun here and here.

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