so i did
gOOgle.
my first hit was with the
washington times:
11 times a good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy, saving lives
the timeframe is from 2007 to 2016 - let's break it down, shall we?
- a 71 year old customer in an internet cafe
- a former cop
- a reserve sherrif's deputy and owner of the place
- an armed guard in a school
- cops and guards at a mohammed cartoon contest (my favourite)
- a shop employee
- five home invasions
in my book that 71 yo counts, all the others are either trained (ex) professionals or on known ground (shop employee + home invasions)
the
next 8 are debunking that myths
no 10 is again a hit from august 2019. from the
washington examiner:
good guy with a gun strikes again to protect the public
- off duty firefighter in a walmart
no 11 is the nra trying to sell me a
good guy with a gun t-shirt and the reason why i stopped my endeavour at that point
conclusion:
a quick gOOgle sessions shows two genuine cases within the last 12 years (there are certainly more) of a good guy with a gun protecting the public.
feel free to dispute what i wrote or add more cases (with sources). as you are having trouble with your computerskills you could at least open the
american hunter and simply type the pertinent information into a post.
thx
... btw, i will accept armed self-defence on unknown ground (the reason why i don't accept it for a home invasion is that the time to prepare is a lot longer and the unknown ground is the perp's problem). if you insist on including them i will search for people who weren't that lucky defending their homes.
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i think what the us needs is a multipronged way to tackle the problem. probably caused by the frontier history violence seems to be the first and only solution for way too many problems - from a dispute over a parking space to foreign policy.
and please don't come up comparing the usa to mexico or brazil again. they are no match for the greatest nation on earth, are they?