Posted on 08/13/2015 10:17:51 AM PDT by richardb72
Normally, even the New York Times doesn’t cite such an unreliable source as Mother Jones for evidence. But when it comes to gun control, it’s considered okay to use biased sources, call people names, and thoughtlessly dismiss the notion that gun-free zones endanger lives.
After the recent shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana, former Texas Governor Rick Perry suggested that people should be able to defend themselves in public. How did the Times react? It characterized those who agree with Perry as “fanatics who own the Republican Party by intimidation.”
Take the Times’ response to the fact that, with just two exceptions, all mass public shootings since 1950 have occurred in places where civilians aren’t allowed to carry guns for protection. The Times claims that these places are “not gun-free at all” if there are “no metal detectors or screening.” Metal detectors may be useful for stopping potential killers, but disarming law-abiding permit holders just isn’t a productive goal. As a group, permit holders are extremely law-abiding and are even convicted of felonies and misdemeanors at a tiny fraction of the rate that police are.
The Times claims: “[Permit holders stopping mass public shootings] almost never happens. The logic is nonsense, the odds of a perfectly timed counter-killer getting the drop on the evil killer unlikely.” In fact, there have been literally many dozens of such cases in recent years. Just in recent months, mass public shootings have been stopped by concealed handgun permit holders in downtown Chicago; on a street in Winton, Ohio; a liquor store in Conyers, Georgia; a fire station in New Holland, South Carolina; and at a barber shop in Philadelphia. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Even my pet parrot objects to the Times as a bird cage liner.
Mass Killings stopped by armed citizens:
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/05/mass-killings-stopped-by-armed-citizens.html
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