It’s not an argument of if people kill people or if guns kill people, it’s the fact that there will always be mentally ill or corrupt people in the world that want to cause harm – guns just makes it easier for them to do it. You try stabbing 27 people to death, see how hard it is.
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could keep going which a much longer list, but hopefully you get the
point. Evil people will find a way to be evil people, regardless of the
tools they use.
In this world there are predators and there are
prey. Disarming the prey does not protect it from the predators. Being
able to fight back, however, does.
Please give me the statistics on how many people have actually successfully stopped a school shooter by pulling out their own automatic rifle. Thank you.
Right after you show me how many school shootings have been committed using an “automatic rifle”.
Furthermore, what are the laws regarding purchasing and owning an “automatic rifle”?
How difficult is it to purchase and own an “automatic rifle”? What is the process?
Please enlighten me.
Now, let’s talk about mass shootings and how many times a concealed carrier has stopped them. You would lead people to believe that it never happens, which is also…
Pearl High School
Oct. 1, 1997
Luke Woodham fatally stabbed his mother at home before opening fire at
his high school, killing two students and injuring seven others. The
attack was stopped
when Assistant Principal Joel Myrick retrieved his .45 caliber handgun
from his truck and confronted Woodham, detaining him until authorities
could arrive.
Myrick’s action stopped Woodham from going across the street to the middle school as he had planned.
Parker Middle School
April 24, 1998
A 14-year-old student showed up to his middle school dance carrying a
.25-caliber pistol. He opened fire inside the dance, killing one teacher
and wounding another as well as two students. The rampage ended when
James Strand, owner of the banquet hall the dance was happening in,
grabbed his personal shotgun and confronted the 14-year-old killer.
Strand held the teen at gunpoint for 11 minutes before finally getting
him to drop the weapon and lie on the ground and searching him for
additional weapons.
Appalachian School of Law
Jan. 16, 2002
A 43-year-old former student armed with a .380 handgun killed
Dean Anthony Sutin and Professor Thomas Blackwell with point blank shots
and went on to kill fellow student Angela Dales as well as wounding
three others before being confronted at gunpoint by law students Tracy
Bridges, a county sheriff’s deputy, and Mikael Gross, a police officer,
after retrieving their personal handguns from their vehicles. The gunman
was then apprehended by other students.
Gross and Bridges lost valuable response time accessing their handguns because of the law school’s standing as a gun-free zone.
New Life Church
Dec. 9, 2007
2 parishioners were killed and 3 wounded when a gunman toting a
Bushmaster AR-15 opened fire at New Hope Church. Hearing the rifle fire,
Jeanne Assam grabbed her personal concealed carry firearm and
confronted the gunman from a distance of 20 yards. According to 5280 Magazine:
She fires five quick shots. Murray falls backward. Assam
moves to the middle of the corridor and rushes forward. She’s a few
dozen feet from Murray now, exposed in the middle of the hallway. “Drop
your weapon, or I will kill you!” she yells. Murray sits up to face her.
He’s still holding the rifle. Boom-boom-boom. Bullets rip past her and
pepper a wall. While Murray shoots, Assam fires three times.
Through the haze of gun smoke, Assam sees the man struggling on the
floor. He props his head against a wall. Her weapon is up, trained on
the man. She sees his hands moving near his shoulder. He’s trying to
pull the pin on a grenade. He’s going to kill everyone around here,
Assam thinks. She instinctively steps back and fires two more shots.
New York Mills AT&T Store
May 27, 2010
A 79-year-old man entered an AT&T store in New York Mills, New York
carrying a .357 magnum revolver in his hand and a list of employees he
planned to kill in his pocket. Hearing the hand cannon go off, Donald J.
Moore drew his own personal weapon and killed the gunman before he
could complete his plan. One employee was wounded in the shooting.
Sullivan Central High School
August 30, 2010
When a 62-year-old man armed with two handguns forced his way
into Sullivan Central High School in Tennessee, he was immediately
engaged by School Resource Officer Carolyn Gudger. Gudger put her body
between the gunman and a student and started what would turn out to be a
more than 10 minute gun-to-gun encounter. Gudger used the time to
slowly move the man to a less crowded part of the school. When other
officers arrived on the scene, a brief gun battle erupted ending with
the gunman mortally wounded.
Freewill Baptist Church
March 25, 2012
Aaron Guyton was inside the recreation building of his grandfather’s
church when he saw Jessie Gates, a member of the congregation, pulling a shotgun from his vehicle.
Guyton leapt into action, locking the doors to the church where
services were going on. Gates kicked in the door and pointed the shotgun
at Rev. Henry Guyton and several parishioners. Drawing his concealed
handgun, the younger Guyton held Gates at gunpoint while two members of
the church took him to the ground. Rev. Guyton then took the shotgun
from his hand.
Clackamas Town Center Mall
Dec. 11, 2012
Two people were killed and a third was seriously wounded at Clackamas
Town Center near Portland, Oregon when a rifle-toting gunman opened fire
in in the busy food court. Nick Meli, a shopper in the mall, drew a
personally owned firearm on the gunman, who immediately retreated to a
service corridor and killed himself. Meli did not fire his weapon for
fear of striking bystanders yet authorities say his actions caused the
gunman to cease his attack and end his own life.
Mystic Strip Club
January 11, 2014
After being refused entry to the strip club for belligerent behavior and
racist comments earlir in the night, Thomas Elliott Hjelmeland returned
carrying a handgun and wearing a Halloween mask. As soon as he entered
the club, Hjelmeland opened fire, striking bouncer Brian Rizzo, a
patron, and a waitress. Another bouncer, Jonathan Baer drew his
concealed handgun and shot Hjelmeland, killing him.
Following the attack Baer posted to Facebook: “I did what I felt was
right to stop the shooter…I carry every day, and will continue to, and
will so with the hope that I will NEVER have to pull it out again.”
10. Austin, Texas Construction Site
April 30, 2014
An irate former employee came to a construction site and opened fire on his co-workers.
The site’s foreman, a Concealed Handgun License holder, drew his
firearm and opened fire. Both men were wounded in the exchange of
gunfire but the foreman’s actions ended the attack and no one else was
wounded.
11. Cache Valley Hospital
May 16, 2014
Armed with two handguns, a man entered the Cache Valley Hospital emergency
room and began making demands. After demanding to see a doctor, he
racked the slide on one of his handguns and told hospital employees
“someone is going to die today”. While a security guard tried to keep
the gunman’s focus on him, two corrections officers who happened to be
at the hospital on an unrelated matter engaged from another direction.
The gunman was shot three times and no other people were harmed.
12. Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital
July 25, 2014
A patient at a psychiatric clinic killed his case worker at point blank
range and then turned his gun on his doctor, Lee Silverman, striking him
several times. Before the gunman could leave the office and continue
his rampage, Dr. Silverman drew his own concealed handgun and pumped
three rounds into the gunman’s torso, mortally wounding him. Police and
hospital staff hail Dr. Silverman as a hero and credit him with saving
dozens of lives.
We can find even more evidence of gun saving lives by looking at defensive gun use in America.
Defensive Gun Use:
Guns help protect
innocent lives FAR MORE OFTEN than they help to harm innocent lives.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of defensive gun uses in this
country alone every single year.
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