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I've seen lots of videos of good guys without guns saving people from bad guys with guns, but I've never seen a "good guy" with a gun do jack shit.
It happens occasionally, but it's pretty rare. I heard a story some time back of a gunman who drove up on a birthday party or something, and a bystander shot them.
The rate is far lower than the rate of gun accidents, or even gun homicides though. It's not an argument for lax gun laws. It just is an occasional side effect that can't and shouldn't be counted on.
That's actually incorrect, the lowest estimate for defensive gun use (by ~~Harvard~~ Phillip Cook using NCVS data, whoops), only counting verifiable police reports and completely discounting defensive display, the most common form of DGU) is 100,000/yr, while gun deaths including accidents, homicides, and suicides, are ~60,000/ yr. That's still a difference of 40,000.
Also good to keep in mind, only 45% of Americans even own a gun, and only somewhere around 20% carry it ever, and even less carry everywhere every day. Combine that with many mass shootings taking place in schools which federally ban firearms or businesses which often have "no weapons" signs on the door (which depending on the state can actually be legally binding), with all of that the chances of there being a "good guy with a gun" in the first place are still pretty slim. If he's a "good guy" even if he brought it he likely left it in the car in accordance with the law and posted signage on the mall (or whatever), and it can't do any good there.
Gun deaths are on average 40k not 60k. We've never even hit 50k a year.
Rest what you said is true.
r/dgu subreddit collects all the known good guy with a gun articles as well.
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To be fair, once. We've seen it once. In all the years of mass shootings. That Texas church where the guy shot the killer from like 25m away while he was moving.
Jesus YouTube tried to delete this from history. Sorry about the Reddit link.
Not just once, it's happened multiple times. There was also the one at the mall where the good guy was then mistakenly shot by the police, that one time 4 store patrons all pulled guns on an armed robber, those are just the ones that I can recall off the top of my head.
Actually Defensive Gun Use (hereafter DGU) estimates vary wildly, from the CDC (self) reported numbers by John Lott and Gary Kleck (500,000-3,000,000), to the more realistic estimate (based on verifiable police reports, and completely discounting the concept of defensive display) by ~~Harvard~~ Phillip Cook using the National Crime Victimization Survey data of 100,000 DGU/yr.
But in any case, by the lowest estimate we have, DGU still happens at least 100,000 "once"s per year, and more if we count defensive display (though that's hard to get numbers on so I leave it out of the "official" count, it does still happen, and likely more often than bullets actually get fired.)
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a principal doing what police could never
More balls than entire Ubald police combined
First thing I thought.
I think you meant the YouBaldy police.
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Science and medical had to rush the guy before security even joined the fight.
That principal is a serious hero, and very lucky. Great pin and control on the weapon, he put all his weight into it.
Is there a way to vote for this principal for mayor?
His campaign tagline could be "The principal with principles!".
He did get crowned prom king this year by his students. It might be hard to see, but he did take a bullet in this altercation.
Really? That's awesome. Can you provide a link I can't find that part of the story as it was 3 days ago.
he did take a bullet in this altercation.
Really? That's awesome.
How I read your reply initially.
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This has been in mainstream news for a few days now. I’m surprised Lemmy is just seeing now.
This ain't reddit.
We aren't being force fed US news against our will Or are you surprised there are people and countries outside USA?
What like we watch daytime television?
The gunman really had no problem killing the principal when he ran towards him. Just pointed the gun casually his way.
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underpaid and still ain't afraid quote the luda man
Is the redshirt guy trying to get redshirted? Picking up that gun while police is on the way could easily lead to misunderstandings.
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Would you look at that, yet another "good guy with a gun" came in to stop the bad guy with a gun...
Fucking sad that the people who routinely save lives in these situations are just normal people risking their own lives, and then you have some assholes advocating for more guns.
Sadder still, is the assholes with the guns are cops too chicken and end up camping outside the school's, or bullying children in the hopes of making everyone feel as unloved as they were when they were kids.
I’ve always fantasized about this, just without the gun
ugh please tackle me Principal Schoemern
The principal should’ve been shot in the head there. Dude’s lucky to be alive.
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Pffft, that's Hitchcock and Scully.
They thought the gunman had come to the school to shoot up the vending machine!!
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