Posted on 03/13/2025 5:10:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The data is in, and once again, the Second Amendment proves itself to be the best protection against undeserved violence.
The Crime Prevention Research Center brought the receipts.
According to the findings of a new study from the CPRC, armed civilians “do a better job” than law enforcement officers to stop active shooters, “with fewer mistakes” to boot. Here’s what John R. Lott, Jr., president of the the CPRC, explained of the findings:
In non-gun-free zones, where civilians are legally able to carry guns, concealed carry permit holders stopped 51.5 percent of active shootings, compared to 44.6 percent stopped by police, CPRC found in a deep dive into active shooter scenarios between 2014 and 2023.
Not only do permit holders succeed in stopping active shooters at a higher rate, but law enforcement officers face significantly greater risks when intervening. Our research found police were nearly six times more likely to be killed and 17 percent more likely to be wounded than armed civilians.
I say this in all seriousness, God bless the work of the CPRC because compiled and organized data is invaluable in the gun debate, but of course armed Americans physically present for what’s fixing to be a massacre do a better job of preserving innocent life than government hires not near the coming carnage. As the saying goes, “When seconds count, police are minutes away.”
Remember Eli Dicken in Indiana who took out a would-be mass shooter loaded with extra magazines full of rifle rounds?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
This is why most mass shooters pick gun-free zones.
When seconds count, police are only minutes away.
bkmk
The liberals and St. Jorge Floyd scared the pants off of all the current LEOs. They’d just as soon do nothing than get spit on and called Nazi by a liberal RAT. Americans are going to have to stand up and defend themselves and their families.
The police are a reactionary force. Unless an officer is at the crime scene when it happens, someone needs to call 911 and then hope the police get there before someone is hurt. If I am a citizen with a permit to carry and I do, I can just as easily disarm the perp and hold that person until the police arrive. And if the perp is armed and I have the shot, I’m going to take it..
Well…ya. What they think it’s Hollywood? People get the criminals to ‘oh wait a half hour. We want the cops here to stop you’
Wonderful .... lets keep responding to Satan’s followers AND PUT THEM DOWN!!
Part of the problem may, also, be because pansy bureaucrats place stupid “rules of engagement” on the officers.
The Texas Tower sniper - 1966
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqwt6PLtCjU
It was civilians working with the police who brought the sniper down. Not a swat team, not a bunch of cops trying to arrest citizens who owned guns engaging the sniper. But private citizens who owned and carried weapons.
Compare the response to this mass shooting with more recent ones where the cops see their first priority is surrounding the building and wait for more cops to arrive even while the shooter is killing more innocent victims.
Great post. Thanks.
And there should be more.
Police officers are civilians. They have powers of arrest granted to them by the State and localities that employ them.
Never cede the language.
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I love you.
In a purely platonic way of course!
Well, “new” as in latest. This has been the findings of FBI stats for years now. Every year legally owned guns stop >300K crimes/shootings.
Thanks for posting...
I read this yesterday
On the Federalist.
Isn’t this common knowledge???
Common Knowledge?
.
This article points out that the
Lying Media portray Just the opposite.
That Civilians are bumbling Fools in a Shooter incident. That they get in the way
Shoot themselves and others.
Perhaps John Lotts’
Right-up is better?
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