Here we go again, a good guy with a gun stops two bad guns with guns committing a robbery of a restaurant, leaving one criminal dead and the other wounded. https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-police-armed-citizen-intervened-robbery-churchs-chicken-port-arthur Not a bad job for the day, it's just too bad he didn't kill both of them, preventing future robberies by the one that lived. Texas police say 'armed citizen' shot robbers at fast-food chicken chain, killing 1 suspect, wounding second The armed citizen remained at the scene, was questioned by detectives and then released.
By cherry picking it is easy to mislead people, but the truth is such cases are rare. "In 2016, for every justifiable homicide in the United States involving a gun, guns were used in 37 criminal homicides." https://vpc.org/studies/justifiable19.pdf
From back in the days before the CDC became a hotbed of political hacks...CDC Study: Use of Firearms for Self-Defense is ‘Important Crime Deterrent’ | CNSNews
I mostly use my firearms for friendly competition out in the boonies on picnics where we have some friendly fun and competition. The only time I used a firearm to hurt anyone was in Iraq. I guess I never lived in a bad neighborhood. Heck... we don't even lock our doors.
2016 is old news, lets get up to date. The Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council released the results of their research through the CDC last month. Researchers compiled data from previous studies in order to guide future research on gun violence, noting that “almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year.”
Such claims are not verified by police investigations and more people report having been a victim of a gun crime than having used a gun to defend themselves: "Some controversy exists about the relative frequency of criminal and self-defense gun use in the United States. Using data from a national random-digit-dial telephone survey of over 1,900 adults conducted in 1996, we find that criminal gun use is far more common than self-defense gun use. This result is consistent with findings from other private surveys and the National Crime Victimization Surveys. In this survey, all reported cases of criminal gun use and many cases of self-defense gun use appear to be socially undesirable. There are many instances of gun use, often for intimidation, that are not reported to the police and may not appear in official crime statistics." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11200101/
I have a loaded gun on my bedside table. No one need fear it unless they're in my house without my permission. I've had people break into my house twice, once when I was at work and once when I was home in bed. Guns (not diamonds) are a girl's best friend.
"Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound."
Police are the first to the crime scene and see things us people discussing the issue from the luxury of an internet forum will never experience. Police are overwhelmingly in favor of armed citizens.
The best part of this story is that the surviving criminal will be charged with the death of his accomplice. The hero of the story can't be sued unless he is convicted of a crime.
