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I was just looking through the FBI's 2014 active shooter stats report, thought I'd summarize a few salient points:
67% of incidents ended before police arrived
Where a time frame could be determined (in about a third of the 160 incidents), 70 percent were over within 5 minutes, and about half of those within 2 minutes
99% involved a single shooter
95% involved male shooters
40% of shooters committed suicide
45% of shootings took place at a public or private place of business (but only 4% at malls), 25% at schools/colleges, 15% at 'open spaces', 10% at government buildings/facilities
In just a handful of cases did civilians get involved; most unarmed civilians tackled the shooter; one had a CCW; armed security got involved in a few others.
Here's the link:
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/september/fbi-releases-study-on-active-shooter-incidents
67% of incidents ended before police arrived
Where a time frame could be determined (in about a third of the 160 incidents), 70 percent were over within 5 minutes, and about half of those within 2 minutes
99% involved a single shooter
95% involved male shooters
40% of shooters committed suicide
45% of shootings took place at a public or private place of business (but only 4% at malls), 25% at schools/colleges, 15% at 'open spaces', 10% at government buildings/facilities
In just a handful of cases did civilians get involved; most unarmed civilians tackled the shooter; one had a CCW; armed security got involved in a few others.
Here's the link:
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/september/fbi-releases-study-on-active-shooter-incidents