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The percentage is incredibly small.
Out of nearly 560 mass shootings this year, we are looking at something ridiculous like less than 1% was a "good guy with a gun" that helped. And for some of those "good guy with a gun", they also end up dead from police shooting at them.
In other words, you're more likely to hope the shooter is struck by lightning.
This is why I never took the Republican Party seriously, even before the days when they came out as being domestic terrorists.
Anyone who is honestly more afraid of not having a gun than they are of not having a doctor, has the mindset of a 7-year-old who's Daddy just let him watch Die Hard.
You must live in a nice neighborhood
Most of those "mass shootings" are gang violence, and when a shooter gets taken out by another shooter it's just part of the violence.
The mass shootings where the point is a massacre have a slightly better rate of "good guys with guns," but still admittedly not great.
It's completely irrelevant though, the point of the right to bear arms is so people can join a radical militia and help put down slave revolts, conquer land from the Indians, and fight tyranny, in the order of importance to the Founding Fathers.