2aguy
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- Jul 19, 2014
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It would confirm my Hero Gunslinger theory. The Dirty Harry complex.Gun owners fantasy...Your response suggests that in some cases, a gun was brandished, but not fired. How many of those 1.1 million times a day did that happen?victim count would be a lot higher or didn't you realize that?I did the math. According to your 1.1 million times a year Americans use guns to thwart crime. Holy Gunslinger! Someone in post apocalyptic America a gun stops crime once every thirty seconds. Twenty four hours a day for 365 days.and yet Americans use their legal guns 1.1 million times a year to save lives.....and as more Americans own and carry guns over the last 26 years....our gun murder rate went down 49%, our gun crime rate went down 75%, and our violent crime rate went down 72%
You want to make victims out of 1.1 million Americans each year, on average, because a criminal uses a gun illegally?
So then, because a drunk crashes into another car and kills someone.....all cars must be banned...right?
According to your logic?
and unless the gun is shot most times it's not going to be reported to the police.
You get in an argument and pull your gun. The other guy backs off
That means you saved a life
I know that America isn't as savage as the gun owner come hero thinks. But I empathize with his fear.
Is this another gun slinger you are talking about...?
Concealed Carrier Holds Burglar At Gunpoint With Her FNX .45
CLEVELAND, TENNESSEE — A woman successfully subdued a would-be burglar outside her home using her FNX .45. The suspect, James Jeffrey Dunn, was allegedly trying to break in through her front door late at night. She got her handgun and confronted the burglar, according to WRCB. Once at the doorway, she yelled through the door for him to stay put and not move. Moments later, she confronted him head-on — handgun drawn and ready to go.
via WRCB
“I tried to order him to stay right where he was at and I pointed the gun at him and I came running off the porch and I came within 10 feet of him and he laid the bicycle down and he crumpled on top of the bicycle,” she says.
She held him at gunpoint until Cleveland Police arrived and arrested Dunn, 35, on charges of aggravated burglary, theft, and burglary of a motor vehicle. Police note that Dunn had an arrest sheet tallying over 40 charges — the most recent being only 6 hours prior to his attempted burglary of this concealed carrier.
“We went over this when we got my concealed carry permit, these types of scenarios. But I had already put that gun up and ever taken it out since, you know?” she says. “Maybe to go the range once.”
When we talk about the new generation of concealed carriers, let’s take a good long look at the realities these people are facing: hardened, career criminals unafraid to bust through the door or do damage to private property and persons. It’s a good thing this woman had the proper training she needed and the right equipment.