What Does the FBI’s Latest Study on Active Shooters Really Mean?

Embed from Getty ImagesIn late June, the FBI released what it called Phase Two of the agency’s ongoing examination of active killer events that took place between 2000 and 2013. In Phase One of the study, researchers focused on the circumstances of the active shooting events — location, duration, and resolution of the attacks — but did not attempt to identify the offenders’ motives or any “observable pre-attack behaviors.”The objective of the latest report &ld