There are probably countless and unreported times a firearm stopped a bad situation. There is no real database of such activity.
A couple of weeks ago I was in a motel when I heard scratching sounds at the slider leading to the balcony at 0430. I also saw light around the edges of the curtain. I grabbed my pistol, opened the curtain and pointed it at two thugs, with the barrel lightly hitting the glass. Those two thugs immediately jumped over the railing and ran like crazy. Even though the police were called, this incident didn't make the police blotter in the local paper and will never be known to the general public. But it was just one of several million examples of a crime being stopped by the presence of a firearm without a shot being fired.
“There is no real database of such activity.”.
Do we think for one minute the libs would want to publish that? It would destroy their entire gun grabbers movement.
There are probably thousands of incidents where just patting your side or jacket pocket backed off a bad situation...
Personally I was involved in a road rage incident where the nut started pounding on my driver window, all I did was make a gun sign out of my hand and pointed to to my seat...
He got the message quickly...
Yep - and no telling how many the mere presence of a gun/suspected gun may stop before they start - the bad guys like easy pickings.
Most people don’t report lest THEY become the criminal and have their guns confiscated for their safety...
Hmmm ..?? I do think there are stats to support firearms stopping crime.
Check with the NRA .. I’m pretty sure they have a lot of data.