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A good guy with a gun has saved many lives in Florida – something the media rarely report
Fox News ^ | August 7, 2018 | John R. Lott

Posted on 08/08/2018 12:52:46 PM PDT by rogerantone1

Thankfully, a heroic citizen with a permit to legally carry a concealed handgun was able to save countless lives in Florida Saturday when he shot a gunman who opened fire on a back-to-school event attended by over 150 students at a park in Titusville, Florida.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: armedcitizen; banglist; ccw; cprc; duplicate; floridaman; mediabias

1 posted on 08/08/2018 12:52:46 PM PDT by rogerantone1
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To: rogerantone1

He’s lucky the cops didn’t nail him for some imaginary reason.


2 posted on 08/08/2018 12:57:45 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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The story that doesn’t make the eneMedia is that allowing guns in public likely deters many hundreds of such attacks.


3 posted on 08/08/2018 1:19:41 PM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: rogerantone1

The comments section really has some entertainment value, such as this gem:

“The purpose of this article as not to actually report what really happened. It was an attempt to show that over 30,000 firearm deaths each year in America are OK, as long as a few ‘bad guys’ are stopped.”


4 posted on 08/08/2018 1:19:51 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: rogerantone1

This is true. We have had bad shootings here in Florida, but most of them have been good (that is, an armed citizen taking out an armed evil doer).

The bizarre thing is that in many states - such as Illinois, where some totally unlicensed thugs with records were caught in Chicago with a serious hand weapon and a bunch of drugs and the police were only allowed to cite them for a misdemeanor - thugs are allowed to carry unlicensed, illegal weapons but good citizens...not.


5 posted on 08/08/2018 1:30:16 PM PDT by livius
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To: OttawaFreeper

30,000! Are they double counting Chicago?


6 posted on 08/08/2018 1:30:34 PM PDT by Tenacious 1
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To: OttawaFreeper

Love the air quotes around “bad guys”.


7 posted on 08/08/2018 1:45:37 PM PDT by _longranger81 (Gettin' our Mega-MAGA-Mojo on!)
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To: Tenacious 1
30,000! Are they double counting Chicago?

No, including suicides, I think.

8 posted on 08/08/2018 2:52:09 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: rogerantone1

its against their narrative, so is suppressed

Enemies will be enemies will be enemies ...


9 posted on 08/08/2018 3:41:55 PM PDT by elbook
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