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Auditing Shooting Rampage Statistics (Private Citizen vs Police Saves)
dailyanarchist.com 31 July, 2012 by Davi Barker
Posted on Sun Dec 09 2012 13:45:34 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) by marktwain
(Posted before Newtown, CT incident.)
The average number of people killed in mass shootings when stopped by police is 14.3
The average number of people killed in a mass shooting when stopped by a civilian is 2.3.
Factual anecdotal correlation with recent incidents (within the last 2 weeks):
Newtown, CT; Wait for police; when they finally enter, shooter suicides; Death toll = 26
Clackamas, OR: CCW citizen holder immediately intervenes; shooter sees CCW and suicides; death toll = 3
This bears out the statistics irrefutably.
This fact needs to be impressed strongly on media and Congress-critters re uselessness of "gun control" legislation
Note that Adam Lanza approached this with an evil but logical plan:
- Gun-free zone
- Familiar with building from childhood attendance
- Pre-planned checkout with the office
- Populated with defenseless individuals
- No instantly activated alarm for police (for fire?)
- Incident probably a consequence of benzodiazepine-exacerbated depressive/suicidal/raging mental state
We need to especially protect defenseless individuals by eliminating "gun-free" zones and assuring the presence of trained, responsible adults as a reaction force.
A leavening of undiscernable CCW-permitted population makes perpetrator avoid zones where his vulnerability is prevously undetermined.
IMHO
bttt
ping for later