re: #95 Targetpractice

They have to keep alive the myth that criminals live in constant fear of gun owners, and that if such a thing every happened in a place where concealed carry is allowed, the shooter would be neutralized before he could get off a shot.

50 public shootings in 3 years and not one has had a valiant lone gunman take down the crazed shooter. But still, they keep the myth alive.

IIRC, the one in Arizona was-or was that an off-duty cop. There are some that a armed citizen has stopped the gunmen, but they don’t make the news. Another problem with the perception is that we don’t hear about instances in which the citizen stops the criminal. There is no box on the police report that is checked for citizens using firearms (or machetes) as self-defense, there IS one for firearms being used in crime.

So guess what data get’s sliced and diced and is included in crime stats?

we don’t have any way of knowing the truth.