Quote:Just read an article on how a "good guy with a gun" intervened during an attempted carjacking in Houston last week and accidentally shot the would be carjacking victim in the head, realized his error, grabbed his casings and fled the scene. The would be carjackers got away. Also a woman in Michigan with a concealed permit saw a loss prevention employee chasing two guys out of a Home Depot with stolen goods and decided to unload her 9mm into a vehicle being driven by thieves who ultimately got away. So.. it's good to see the mentality that we need more guns in the hands of civilians to protect against crime is still strong. I'm just a crazy guy who thinks we'd still be safer with less bullets whizzing through the air missing their mark.

 

How about a counter that restrictive gun laws have no impact on homicide and accidental gun death rates?


 

"The correlation between the homicide rate and Brady score in all 51 jurisdictions is +.032 (on a scale of -1 to +1), which means that states with more gun restrictions on average have very slightly <i>higher</i><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Georgia;"> homicide rates, though the tendency is so small as to be essentially zero. (If you omit the fatal gun accident rates, then the correlation would be +.065, which would make the more gun-restricting states look slightly worse; but again, the correlation would be small enough to be essentially zero, given all the other possible sources of variation).</span>

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/10/06/zero-correlation-between-state-homicide-rate-and-state-gun-laws/ 

 

Or a few stories about what happens when armed self-defense works?


 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/10/03/do-civilians-with-guns-ever-stop-mass-shootings/

 

Or when a good guy with a gun meets a bad guy intent to kill with a gun?


 

http://controversialtimes.com/issues/constitutional-rights/12-times-mass-shootings-were-stopped-by-good-guys-with-guns/

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