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How often does a good guy with a gun stop a shooter?

A mass shooting at a shopping mall in Indiana ended when a bystander fired at the gunman. Mass shootings happen daily in the U.S. How often do good guys with a gun step in?

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd talks with University of Alabama Criminology Professor Adam Lankford.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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