a legally permitted concealed weapon, fully prepared to stop the next mass shooter in his tracks, is promoted."
How foolish to think that guns can be effective in protecting anyone from violence.
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Posted on 10/26/2015 9:36:18 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The more that sensational gun violence afflicts the nation, the more that the myth of the vigilant citizen packing a legally permitted concealed weapon, fully prepared to stop the next mass shooter in his tracks, is promoted.
This foolhardy notion of quick-draw resistance, however, is dramatically contradicted by a research project showing that, since 2007, at least 763 people have been killed in 579 shootings that did not involve self-defense. Tellingly, the vast majority of these concealed-carry, licensed shooters killed themselves or others rather than taking down a perpetrator.
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The tally by the Violence Policy Center, a gun safety group, is necessarily incomplete because the gun lobby has been so successful in persuading gullible state and national legislators that concealed carry is essential to public safety, thus blocking the extensive data collection that should be mandatory for an obvious and severe public health problem. For that reason, the center has been forced to rely largely on news accounts and limited data in 38 states and the District of Columbia. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Consider the source
The statistics obsess on ONLY situations where someone dies - when the whole point is concealed carry SAVED LIVES by _nobody_ dying.
And how many of those were suicides? Based on other data, government data, is should be well over 60%. Since this is presumably dealing with CCW permit holders I bet it is over 80% suicides.
How long will the American people allow these propaganda mills to operate?
Gosh, this is such a poorly-written editorial that it is almost unreadable. Anyway, the study linked from the editorial says that there were 235,000 defensive uses of firearms in a single year. While this figure is used to contradict the NRA’s figure of 2.5 million, it is still an enormous figure! And the fact that very few of these 235,000 uses required fatally shooting the attacker is a good thing and does not support the NYT’s argument at all.
All it proves to me is that gun free zones don’t work.
And with that we know this story is pure horse hillary.
We all know the best people to advise us on concealed carry and gun control are liberal wussies who wet their panties at the sight of a cloud or a Pop-Tart in the shape of the letter “L”.
So if carrying weapons is not effective in stopping criminals, why do cops carry guns? Do not say they are trained professionals. Most departments have minimal training in the academy and no further mandatory training or re-qualification. Consider the officer in front of the Empire State Building years ago who fire several times hitting the perp once and wounding several bystanders.
The Second Amendment was given to the people to protect them from the type of totalitarian scum that inhabits the NYT and the “Violence Policy Center.”
Go to hell, NYT. You are an ENEMY of the Bill Of Rights, the people, and of freedom.
However, if data is desired there isn't really much of a shortage as the Times complains. There is, for example, the rather inconvenient phenomenon of plummeting murder rates plotted against increasing rates of concealed carry detailed HERE. Opposed to the sophomoric "You're all a bunch of Rambo wannabes" sneering is cold, hard fact. Pity the Times doesn't deal in that these days.
Yep, both are rabidly anti-gun and anti-freedom.
How foolish to think that guns can be effective in protecting anyone from violence.
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Big Media are pathological liars. Here's an example.
Correction, gun CONFISCATION group.
They want their own private, ex-military armed security details to protect their interests (Soros, Bloomberg, etc.)
Get over it. The purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to bring down a corrupt government when it gets out of hand.
We are || THIS close to civil war. The first attempts at Federal confiscation will start the blood flowing.
Mass Killings Stopped by Armed Citizens, Updated
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/05/mass-killings-stopped-by-armed-citizens.html
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