The phrase "active shooting" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of describing a situation where a shooting is currently taking place, often in emergency response scenarios.
Example: "The police responded quickly to reports of an active shooting at the local mall."
Alternatives: "ongoing shooting" or "live shooting incident".
And if the Safeway parking lot where she was gunned down had been a gun-free zone, the NRA will tell you that this only increased the risk of an active shooting, but the data on such shootings shows the reverse to be true.
I'm referring to a report on active shooting incidents just released by the FBI which analyzed 160 "active shootings" resulting in injuries to 1,043 victims, including 486 deaths, between 2000 and 2013.
Active shooting incidents are defined by federal agencies as "an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area".
In just the past six months, there have been at least three instances in the United States of fatal police shootings of black people who witnesses said were trying to interrupt an active shooting.
Australia still has an active shooting culture.
He engaged immediately in active shooting [with the suspect].
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Noticeably, our findings revealed that A. brasilense in white clover has more active shoot growth promoting role compared to its root growth, particularly under salt stress conditions (40, 80, and 120 mM NaCl concentration).
By contrast, in zll-1 bent-cotyledon stage embryos, p35S:amiR-ARF2 expression partially rescued stem cell maintenance as measured by the expression of the stem cell marker pCLV3 GFP-er (pCLV3 GFP-erig. 4b,c) and the presence of an active shoot meristem at the seedling stage (Additional file 9: Table S7).
In Arabidopsis, despite the functional loss of ATMAX1 and ATMAX2, the first axillary shoots remain active during shoot formation28, which suggests that they repress axillary meristem differentiation.
And Friday they were flummoxed by Louisville's active defense, shooting only 25 percent in the first half and starting the game 1-of-13 from 3-point range.
