So overall the so called ‘research’ by Texas State University is useless because they simply search Google, and the vast majority of incidents that became non-incidents because they were stopped before they began by an ordinary armed citizen, simply do not appear in print or news video such that they show up in searches. The media doesn’t bother with the daily noise of common crime charges unless its an incident that’s sensational or political or very-special-interest in some way and incidents that are non-incidents because they get stopped by an armed citizen before they can begin to get serious are non-incidents to the media so they don’t report on them.

They appear in police reports as reported (if perp flees and not caught), or under charges such as ‘trepass’ or ‘attempted robbery’ or unlawful ‘posession of a firearm’ or some other common crime variety charge because the incident was kept from becoming more serious by an armed citizen stopping it. But the public never sees these reports, and it takes a researcher combing through them and each incident to pick out the detail of the armed citizen defender and Texas State University simply doesn’t do that.

Clarification for “…Things like this happen all the time, ….”

Meaning frequently.

Then also there is the issue of video. Sometimes an incident will happen and appear in a short blup in local broadcast news, but not national (non-incidents do not make national news) but not appear in print in an article somewhere on the internet where it can be found so doesn’t appear in searches via a search engine. It was a non-incident because it was stopped by an armed citizen before it began. So although it may have appeared in that short blurp in local broadcast news sometimes, those do not always make it onto platforms like YouTube and even if they did each video would need to be specifically located and viewed to discover it. So it remains undiscovered because no researcher does this unless they already know which local news outlet and which date and time for the video.

“…have to rely on media reports, which can be inaccurate, to identify and classify the incidents.”

A non-incident thats a non-incident because the situation was stopped from becoming an incident is not news worthy enough to spend time on it. For example; the would be Walmart shooter two weeks ago was stopped outside the store by an armed citizen who held the they/them at gun point until police arrived, no shots were fired, but the local news 8 second blurp report only said a man (the ‘they/them’ would be shooter) with guns was arrested with no mention of the ordinary armed citizen that stopped what was going to be a mass shooting at Walmart.

Things like this happen all the time, ordinary armed citizens in public places stopping armed criminals (not all criminals are armed with guns) before they can harm others. And the vast majority with no shots fired because brandishing and a defensive posture did the trick and the bad guys flee or surrender, and the media simply doesn’t cover it because it became a non-incident by being stopped before it could begin and non-incidents are not worthy of media coverage.

Which is a good thing AFAIC because if we’re being truly honest with ourselves nobody should’ve ever trusted them from their inceptions and they’ve always been corrupt, partisan and self-serving institutions bilking taxpayers and getting people killed to further agendas nobody ever voted on.

Pick your poison.