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Do civilians with guns ever stop mass shootings?
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 11:16 pm
by philip964
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/vol ... ions_pop_b
Washington Post editorial where the writer lists all the mass shootings he found where it was stopped by a someone other than a police officer, in other words, a good guy with a gun.
He leaves out the the Oregon mall shooting, and gives his reasons why.
Re: Do civilians with guns ever stop mass shootings?
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 11:20 pm
by bmwrdr
Probably not because the mass shootings I remember happened in gun free zones where a law abiding person can't carry.
Re: Do civilians with guns ever stop mass shootings?
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 11:28 pm
by K.Mooneyham
Very hard to prove a negative. It is impossible to say how many would-be killers were deterred from doing what they wanted because they knew armed citizens would be around.
Re: Do civilians with guns ever stop mass shootings?
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 11:42 pm
by baldeagle
I am stunned that WaPo allowed this to see the light of day.
Re: Do civilians with guns ever stop mass shootings?
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 12:06 am
by Taypo
baldeagle wrote:I am stunned that WaPo allowed this to see the light of day.
You and me both. Coming from them, this might as well be a ringing endorsement of 2A and gun rights.
Re: Do civilians with guns ever stop mass shootings?
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 5:35 am
by mojo84
baldeagle wrote:I am stunned that WaPo allowed this to see the light of day.
Re: Do civilians with guns ever stop mass shootings?
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 7:28 am
by jimlongley
OF course the anti-gun nuts get to deny these were or would have been mass shootings because: 1) the good guy stopped the crime from developing into a mass shooting, and 2) there is no indication in any of the events that it would have been a mass shooting.
Re: Do civilians with guns ever stop mass shootings?
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 9:07 pm
by Dreamer42
Even if just one crime is stopped by CHL and saves lives, that's good enough for me.