In my last article, I pointed out that successful bystander intervention against a spree shooter reduces the average number of fatalities from about 14 to about 2. Here is a first hand account by a survivor of a spree shooting that killed 23, including both her parents, describing how gun control laws prevented her from intervening:
With the recent Connecticut school shooting, the debate is on with regard to whether the solution is more guns or fewer guns. One of the issues in that debate is whether legitimate firearms in the hands of private citizens would reduce the number of deaths by stopping mass shootings earlier. I wasn't able to find any peer reviewed articles on the
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The general trend in crime rates for the past half century has been a general increase from the low levels of 1960 to a peak in 1980, followed by a general decline to fairly low levels today: