Mass shootings prevented by armed citizens

Every year, mass shootings are prevented by armed citizens, and these stories go with very little reporting, or completely unreported altogether, with media bias being one of the reasons why.

This is an incomplete list of instances where mass shootings and loss of life have been prevented by armed, law-abiding citizens.

Year	Name(s)	Details
1997	Joel Myrick, Luke Woodham	A student came on campus armed with a gun. Assistant principal Joel Myrick, also with a gun, prevented the student from going on a Columbine-style rampage.
2015	Not released	A man opened fire in a barber shop. Another person, who was a legal gun permit carrier, shot and killed the shooter saving a lot of people's lives, according to the Police Captain.
2016	James Howard	Gun shop owner refused to sell a gun to a customer, even though he passed a background check.
2016	Everardo Custodio	An Uber driver was waiting for pedestrians to cross the street when a man began firing into the crowd.
2016	Jody Ray Thompson	An irate man opened fire on patrons waiting to enter into the Playoffz nightclub. In self-defense, someone returned fire stopping the incident.
2016	Cesar Perez, James Jones	Random patron armed with multiple weapons came in yelling incoherent and strange things, and fired on an employee. Another person on the scene with a concealed weapon took him down after he started shooting.