Armed Citizens News Today

welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper and well continue our breaking news coverage. moments ago we got an update from atlanta police for the man hunt for a deadly mass shooting at a medical center. deion patterson should be considered armed and dangerous. he was at the building for an appointment when he became agitated. patterson started shooting in the waiting room and one person has been killed and four others injured and all of the victims women. within the last hour, atlanta polic...

More examples of defensive gun use illustrate how armed citizens promote public safety, even as Hawaii’s high court undermines gun rights.

Defensive gun uses happen every day across the United States, but they rarely are covered by the national news media. Occasionally armed citizens will act to defend themselves or others in a spectacul...

A report from John R. Lott Jr. shows that from 2014 to 2022 armed citizens stopped active shooters 8 times more often than the FBI claims.

Against active shooter situations. there were active shooter situations in 2022, 313 casualties and 100 of those died, but if you look at the outcomes with the shooter, nine killed themselves, seven were killed in confrontations with police. two by armed citizens who intervened before police got there, but 29, and this is the larger number compared to that 18. 29 were apprehended either overpowered by police or after a dialogue with police were able to surrender. so the odds are in the favor of ...

The mainstream media tells us that armed citizens almost never stop bad guys with guns. The truth is much more interesting than they want the American people to understand.

The FBI has been vastly undercounting the times a mass shooting or active shooting event has been stopped by legally armed citizens, according to an independent report provided to Secrets.

A teenager in Texas fought off home intruders with a shotgun, killing two of the would-be invaders. Three men wearing ski masks attempted to enter a house in Channelview, Texas at around 10:40 [...]

As studies try to discredit armed citizens, it's time to recognize that there is science and then there's "science."

The shooting that killed three people and injured another at a Greenwood, Indiana, mall on July 17 drew ...