History supports my statement. Perhaps I should have said; "More often than not".
Nothing is going to work every time, but an armed response sure beats hiding and hoping......
I don't know that you have the data to say that when faced with armed resistance, that active shooters stop most of the time. A LOT fight back.
Klebold and Harris didn't stop when confronted by armed response, exchanging shots with SRO.
Whitman @ UT didn't.
Nathan Desai 2016 mass shooting in Houston, fought with cops and was killed
Dionisio Garza III 2016 mass shooting in Houston fought with cops and LTC holder who was wounded through both legs, crippled.
Tyler Courthouse Square shooter battled cops and Mark Wilson (Wilson killed), and was killed after a car chase
Sutherland Springs - fought back against good Sam.
Pulse Night Club - exchanged shots with security guard at entrance at the start of his mass shooting
1984 San Ysidro McDonald's shooting, killed by SWAT sniper
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, California, exchanged fire with cops
Nadal Hasan, Fort Hood, exchanged fire with military police
Christopher Harper-Mercer, at Umpqua Community College battled cops before committing suicide
Aaron Alexis - Naval Yard shooter battled security and cops, hitting multiple, and even taking the gun from one of them
2016 Dallas Police shooting, fought with and killed officers, had to be killed by robot with a bomb
Sept. 10, 2017 Spencer James Hight, 32, invaded a Dallas Cowboys watch party at the home of his estranged wife and opened fire, fatally shooting eight people and injuring another. He was killed by a responding officer after an exchange.
Cedric Ford, Kansas lawnmower factory shooting, died in a battle with cops
Pedro Vargas, Hialeah, FL apartment building shooting, killed by cops
Michael Page, Sikh Temple shooting, died in battle with cops, actually ambushing one on his arrival, shooting him 15(?) times.
Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez made attacks on two military facilities, was killed in battle with cops
In 2012, Vic Stacy became a hero in the Peach House RV Park shooting by making long distance shots with his pistol and stopping a gunman who had killed three, their dogs, and was battling with a cop that had been ambushed - heralded as having stopped a mass shooting, Stacy was exchanged shots with the gunman.
You know, a LOT of people survive by hiding and hoping, some even by playing dead.
In two of the examples you cited the responders used poor tactics and the third was at Rockledge, they certainly disrupted him, he was stopped there.
LOL, you are going to be critical of armed citizens who fought back? First you make it sound easy that gunmen will give up when faced with armed responses then you are critical when the armed response isn't by high speed, low drag tactical fighters.
You sited this article on 10 cases where armed citizens took down active shooters.
https://www.personaldefenseworld.com...ctive-shooter/
Man, doesn't that make it sound like armed citizens have the edge? Well, let's look at some of the examples.
Case 1. Paris, law enforcement took down the Charlie Hedbo terrorists after various battles (fighting back). This, after a MASSIVE police and military response to get the shooters.
Case 2. Good example
Case 3. Moore Oklahoma beheading incident, stopped a guy with a knife by shooting him. Good self defense story, but NOT an active shooter. Since when is a guy with a knife an ACTIVE SHOOTER????
Case 4. Pearl, MS, stopped the shooter after the shooter was forced to drive into a field where his vehicle became stuck. This was by an unarmed student using his vehicle to block the shooter. While trying to unstick his vehicle the principal ordered the shooter to cease at gunpoint. The shooting was effectively over at the school when intervention took place. The shooter wasn't "taken" down per se, either, LOL.
Case 5. Nick Melli stopped the shooter at Clackamas Mall? Maybe not. The shooter had a jammed rifle and had already stopped shooting. He retreated, according to Melli, after seeing Melli with his gun, to another part of the mall where he committed suicide after clearing the malfunction. Melli wasn't your typical citizen, but off duty armed security. The shooter wasn't taken down by Melli in any form or fashion.
Case 6. Jeanne Assum, the hero of New Life Church, not just your typical armed citizen, but a former police officer working as armed security for the church.
Case 7. Aurora, CO shooter wasn't shot by a gun toting grandmother or by some software developer, but by an off duty cop.
Case 8. Salt Lake City, UT, another off duty cop
Case 9. Good example
Case 10. Good example
While you could argue that anybody is a "citizen," most of the citizens in the examples cited were not your normal everyday people, what the author called a "good guy or good gal." Most were trained professionals who stopped these people. Your typical CCW "citizen" isn't a trained professional.