The Concealed Carry Fantasy

[RobDownSouth]

The New York Times gores one of the most sacred cows of the whackadoodle right this morning, eviscerating the Rambo fantasy that a concealed weapon will somehow vanquish evildoers.

The Concealed Carry Fantasy

The more that sensational gun violence afflicts the nation, the more that the myth of the vigilant citizen packing a legally permitted concealed weapon, fully prepared to stop the next mass shooter in his tracks, is promoted.

This foolhardy notion of quick-draw resistance, however, is dramatically contradicted by a research project showing that, since 2007, at least 763 people have been killed in 579 shootings that did not involve self-defense. Tellingly, the vast majority of these concealed-carry, licensed shooters killed themselves or others rather than taking down a perpetrator.

Read the entire editorial HERE

 

[about_average]

Concealed carry used for self defense or defense of others isn't "contradicted" by the fact some CCW holders commit criminal acts.
All it proves is that some (0.01%} of the nation's CCW holders commit criminal acts.

Here's a link to 10 or so documented cases of CCW holders definitely, or very likely, stopping mass shootings.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...civilians-with-guns-ever-stop-mass-shootings/

And that's only mass shootings, it doesn't list any of the countless lives saved from individual shootings.

 

[phrodeau]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-concealed-carry-20151101-story.html

They're not likely to charge the Chicago man who emptied his clip into a paintgun-armed robber.

 

[Nathan_Brazil]

For every 'crime' they stop. There are numerous accidental shootings, murders while drunk, suicides, and crimes committed... But they deny all that. That would never happen to them. And they'll never get cancer either...or an automobile crash...or get laid off...or...

 

[dan_c00000]

Here's a link to 10 or so documented cases of CCW holders definitely, or very likely, stopping mass shootings.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...civilians-with-guns-ever-stop-mass-shootings/

And that's only mass shootings, it doesn't list any of the countless lives saved from individual shootings.

Volokh? Really? This dude has been in the pocket of the NRA, climate deniers, and a whole host of other right wing nuts. He's got no problem sucking up every right wing fantasy nut's dollars and writing shitty op-eds with literally zero credibility.

Anyway, here's the real story behind your supposed "good guy with a gun" bullshit.