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Title: Mass Killings Stopped by Armed Citizens
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Published: Dec 16, 2012
Author: gunwatch
Post Date: 2012-12-16 20:12:01 by abraxas
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Comments: 18
Mass Killings Stopped by Armed Citizens Saturday, December 15, 2012 13:10 The are several documented cases where armed citizens have stopped mass attacks by gunmen. Let me list a few: The Pearl, Mississippi school shooting was stopped by the vice principal Joel Myrick with a Colt .45, The Appalachian School shooting was stopped by two students with handguns. Both of the above incidents were stopped by the armed citizens threatening the shooter without firing. Pearl High School Link Appalacian Law School Link Plans to slay everyone in the Muskegon, Michigan, store and steal enough cash and jewelry to feed their “gnawing hunger for crack cocaine” fell apart for a band of would-be killers after one of their victims fought back. Muskegon Shooting Link The mass church shooting in Colorado Springs was stopped by the shooter being shot by a church member with a CCW permit. New Life Church Link The Santa Clara gunshop shooting in 1999 was stopped by an armed citizen after the shooter declared that he was going to kill everyone. Police found a list of intended victims in his car. Only the perpetrator, Richard Gable Stevens was shot. Santa Clara Gunshop Link The December, 1991, Aniston, Alabama defense where a CCW holder stopped armed robbers who were herding employees, customers, and his wife into a cooler. He shot both robbers, killing one. Aniston Shoney’s Shooting Link July 13, 2009, in Virginia at the Golden Food Market: The gunman tried to shoot several people, was stopped by a CCW carrier. Golden Food Market Shooting Link Just recently, in Early Texas, armed citizen Vic Stacy shot and stopped a deranged man who had just murdered two neighbors and was firing at police with a rifle. Stacy made a very long shot with his revolver, three times as far as the perpetrator was from the police officer, who had an AR-15 type rifle. Early Texas Peach House Shooting Link That sounds like a very good story… but it never made the national news. I wonder who made the decision to spike that story. Of course, when a mass shooting is stopped by an armed citizen, there are not as many victims. This leads to the charge that it would not really have been a “mass shooting”. 2012-12-15 13:00:38 Source: http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2012/12/mass-killings-stopped-by-armed-citizens.html
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#2. To: abraxas (#0)
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With reference to the Shady Hook school tragedy, I don't know if an "armed citizen" in the school would have helped any. The principal, after all, was the first person killed. Having every teacher holstered up has its problems. There are, frankly, some teachers that shouldn't be carrying deadly weapons. The gun for a teacher works only if that teacher has a faster draw and better aim than the bad guy - and if the teacher is willing to shoot to kill; not every teacher would be a good shootist. Would the teachers be trained and made to do frequent target practice? Would the teacher take the gun home with him/her or leave it in the school overnight? What if the teacher didn't want a gun in her own home, even if only for nights and weekends? Suppose some kids grabs the teacher's gun? The teacher presumably would be carrying this gun within reach at all times while on the job. This means the teacher would have a holster and gun where the kids would see it every day all day; it's possible these kids would grow up feeling that having a gun on one's belt is normal and acceptable. On the other hand, giving guns to all the teachers would probably make the teachers' unions far more effective in negotiating for pay increases and the like, and probably no one would dare cross a teachers' picket line.
Once again, I ask you why it is ok for the teachers to be armed in Israel but not in America?
#5. To: James Deffenbach, Shoonra (#3)
hehehehehe...and Shoon's response is nil, nada, mute... Morale of the story: Guns are bad in 'merika but good in Izzy, yes? If Shoon is Jewish, she/he owns guns. Like my Jewish neighbor told me, his ancestors gave up their guns to a nice gun control vegan guy called Adolph and it didn't turn out too well for them so he's not going to make the same mistake.
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#3. To: Shoonra (#2)
Replies to Comment # 3. Once again, I ask you why it is ok for the teachers to be armed in Israel but not in America?
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