Fact Check: Sheila Jackson Lee Falsely Claims Civilians Haven’t Stopped a Mass Shooting in 33 YearsAWR Hawkins 16 Feb 2021
CLAIM: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) claims civilians have not managed to stop a single mass shooting during the past 33 years.
VERDICT: False. Numerous armed civilians have thwarted mass shootings over the past seven years, and even more have done so during the past 33.
Lee made her claim in the text of her gun control bill, H.R. 125.
The text of the bill says, “Mass shootings stopped by armed civilians in the past 33 years: 0.â€
A quick fact check shows otherwise:
Breitbart News reported that a concealed carry permit holder shot and killed an alleged Tulsa, Oklahoma, attacker on March 27, 2020, thwarting a mass shooting in the process.
On December 29, 2019, the Associated Press reported that a man opened fire on a Texas church congregation and was shot and killed seconds later by an armed congregant. Video from the incident showed congregant Jack Wilson shooting the attacker while other congregants closed in, guns drawn, to help end the attack as well. ABC News quoted Texas Department of Public Safety Deputy Director Joeff Williams saying, “The citizens who were inside that church undoubtedly saved 242 other parishioners. That might get swept aside in this whole conversation about active shooter response, and God know law enforcement has done a whole bunch of work to make our response better.â€
On August 7, 2018, Fox News reported that a concealed carry permit holder was there to “save countless lives†when a gunman with bad intentions opened fire on a back to school event in Titusville, Florida. Fox 32 quoted Titusville police Sgt. William Amos saying, “Based on the information that we’ve gathered. This person stepped in and saved a lot of people’s lives.â€
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/16/fact-check-sheila-jackson-lee-falsely-claims-civilians-havent-stopped-a-mass-shooting-in-33-years/
