Posted on 04/09/2013 1:12:52 PM PDT by Kartographer
Research on mass shootings over the last decade has bolstered the idea that people at the scene of an attack have a better chance of survival if they take an active stance rather than waiting to be rescued by the police, who in many cases cannot get there fast enough to prevent the loss of life.
In an analysis of 84 such shooting cases in the United States from 2000 to 2010, for example, researchers at Texas State University found that the average time it took for the police to respond was three minutes.
“But you see that about half the attacks are over before the police get there, even when they arrive quickly,” said J. Pete Blair, director for research of the university’s Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center and an author of the research, which is set to be published in a book this year.
In the absence of a police presence, how victims responded often made the difference between life and death, Dr. Blair said.
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Charley Waite: "You could do something about it."
Mack: "What? We're freighters. Ralph here's a shopkeeper."
Charley Waite: "You're men, ain't you?"
Mack: "I didn't raise my boys just to see 'em killed."
Charley Waite: "Well you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying."
According to DOJ crime statistics, guns are used by US citizens 2.5 million times per year to prevent violent crimes like rape, robbery, home-invasion and carjacking, 99% of the time without a shot being fired. (Source: GunFacts.info)
From my days of paint balling my brothers and I learned that the man who sits still dies. Always and everytime.
Didn’t matter if some arrogant rich slob could afford an automatic paint ball gun that fired like a water hose.
They’d hold up in their supposed secure spot, wipe everyone they could and then my brothers and I would using distracting manuevers and over run his position.
Same when you are under attack from someone running at you. Run away and hope you don’t get shot in the back, as happened to me once. Hurt like hell and I learned to take the fight to target.
Evade if you can, beat feet and put as much distance between you and the gunman or take the fight to him.
Most people stop what they are doing when they are confronted.
Just providing public knowledge that CCW are permitted in the area deters crime and attacks.
You don’t have to shoot all thugs to get the others to leave.
BS, hard to believe that cops half the time took less than 90 seconds to arrive.
“But you see that about half the attacks are over before the police get there...
Why the cops get there so fast, the guy is still in the middle of the act. I don't know what Bizzaro world this "study" was done, but in my neighborhood you are lucky if the cops show up in 20 minutes. In fact, all flash mob attacks are designed to take advantage of that. If the cops ever showed up as fast as this study, flash mobs would be impossible.
This is simply thinly veiled propaganda.
Cops are always just minutes away, when seconds count.
When seconds count, police are only minutes away.
I would speculate they cherry-picked their data to get an average response time of 3 min for the police. And such a low sample, too, only 84 over a 10 year period, eh?
Mass Killings Stopped by Armed Citizens
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2012/12/mass-killings-stopped-by-armed-citizens.html
Out here in my part of the state we don’t have police, we have the Sheriffs Department. Response times in my particular area are pretty long, about 45 minutes to over an hour. Don’t blame the Sheriff deputies, it’s all one and two lane mountain roads that aren’t necessarily in the best of conditions, especially after a wet cold winter. So I will just keep my guns handy; in case I need that particular tool.
Woman Draws Gun on Attacker Who Dragged Her by Ponytail Down Street
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3005340/posts
case in point.
3 minutes for cops to arrive? Ha! Takes them 15 minutes just to suit up in their cool black mil-style molle gear. And then another 10 minutes sitting around outside waiting for the shooting to stop. And another minute to shoot any family dogs which happen to pass by.
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