9 Potential Mass Shootings That Were Stopped By Someone With A Personally Owned Firearm - www.buzzfeed.com (HTTP) In Debate Over Gun-Carry Laws, Critics Are Quick to Shoot Down the Facts. People walking the streets armed with guns must be dangerous, right?
A newly revised study by the Brady Campaign and the Violence Policy Center found that even those individuals who have legally obtained permits to carry concealed handguns are extremely dangerous. With millions of Americans already having been issued such permits from the various states, this is an important issue. The gun control organizations have frequently made these claims in the press, and Dennis Henigan, the vice president of the Brady Campaign, will likely make these claims again when he and I appear on John Stossel’s FoxBusiness show today. But the gun control advocates inaccurately describe many shooting cases, choosing to ignore that the majority of incidents involve people properly defending themselves.
Over the past three years, the number of active permit holders in the United States has gone from about 5 million to more than 6.2 million today. So what is the evidence? Mass Killings Stopped by Armed Citizens - gunwatch.blogspot.com (HTTP) D.C. man who shot dogs biting boy could face charges - Washington Times - www.washingtontimes.com (HTTP) D.C. police are investigating whether a man will face criminal charges for shooting a pit bull that was attacking a child in his neighborhood.
The incident unfolded Sunday afternoon, after three pit bulls attacked an 11-year-old boy as he rode his bicycle through the Brightwood neighborhood of Northwest, according to a police report. When the man, a neighbor, saw the boy being mauled by the dogs, he went inside his home and got a gun. The armed bystanders who stopped the massacres - latimes.com - www.latimes.com (HTTP) Everyone knows the terrible litany of gun violence: Columbine High School, Virginia Tech, Ft.
Hood, Tucson, the Cinemark movie theater in Colorado, the Sikh temple in Wisconsin, Sandy Hook Elementary School. Here are some examples you may not have heard about: Pearl High School in Mississippi; Sullivan Central High School in Tennessee; Appalachian School of Law in Virginia; a middle school dance in Edinboro, Pa.; Players Bar and Grill in Nevada; a Shoney's restaurant in Alabama; Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City; New Life Church in Colorado; Clackamas Mall in Oregon (three days before Sandy Hook); Mayan Palace Theater in San Antonio (three days after Sandy Hook). There's a reason that you never heard much about the places on the second list.
The number of innocent people killed was much smaller — sometimes, none. SLIDESHOW: The 10 trigger-happiest states in America Sometimes the hero was an armed school guard (Sullivan Central High). For schools, Utah provides a model. The Armed Citizen. Suzanna Gratia Hupp explains meaning of 2nd Amendment! Letter from Chip Elliott. The text that follows deserves wide and repeated redistribution, anywhere a semi- or fully-thoughtful anti-gunner can be found and cornered long enough to read it.
Chip Elliott, author of a novel entitled Tomorrow Come Sunrise, published in 1970, wrote the below letter in response to an April 1981 article in Esquire Magazine entitled "Fifty Million Handguns. " It so impressed the editors that it was published in the September 1981 issue as the cover story. Mr. Elliot's comments are just as relevant to the gun issue as they were the day they were written — and his effervescent authenticity is indeed deeply appreciated. Esquire Magazine did a great service by running this letter — do your part by making sure someone else reads it.
Letter from an ANGRY Reader A Letter to the Editor of Esquire Magazine from Chip Elliott The streets of America...are as dangerous as the roads and alleys of an earlier century. In regard to Adam Smith's April column, "Fifty Million Handguns," come off it. No Shots Fired: Home Intruders Decide Not to Stick Around After Seeing Their ‘Victim’ Holding an AR-15. Two home intruders, one holding a handgun, broke into a New York apartment on Tuesday and waited at the bottom of the stairs for a potential “victim” to come down.
While their intentions are unknown, it is clear they were criminals up to no good. After hearing some noise coming from the basement, Christopher Boise, a student at Rochester Institute of Technology, went to check it out. “They were waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs,” Boise told WHAM-TV. When they saw him, the man with the gun pointed the barrel towards him. Relying on pure instinct, Boise let out a blood-curdling scream in order to alert his roommate, Raymond, who is also a RIT student. “It wasn’t like a, ‘I stepped by stepped on a piece of glass’ kind of scream,” Raymond said. In that bag was a AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, one of the very guns at the center of the current gun control debate.