damn_registrars's Journal: How Useful Is a "Good Guy With a Gun"?

Few statements come up more often than the myth of stopping a "bad guy with a gun" by way of a "Good Guy With a Gun". This is often used to inspire people to join the NRA, get a concealed carry permit, join the NRA, buy guns, join the NRA, vote republican, join the NRA, vote republican, and join the NRA. Few people have actually put much thought into the utility of Joe Six Pack hoping to stop a situation with his licensed weapon.

So the Daily Show opted to test it with approved shooting training a simulations. They also cited some interesting data on shooting events:

The results explain why it's so rare for "a good guy with a gun" to stop active shooters. According to the FBI's report on active shooter events between 2000 and 2013, only about 3 percent were stopped by a civilian with a gun. Unarmed civilians actually stopped more incidents - about 13 percent. Most of the incidents - more than 56 percent - ended on the shooter's initiative, when the shooter either killed himself or herself, simply stopped shooting, or fled the scene.

Mostly blocked for me

[Zontar The Mindless]

Even so... interesting. Tends to confirm what I'd consider to be common sense--fewer guns tends to lead to fewer gun deaths.

I was able to view the video about guns and suicides, though. Didn't realise there was such a direct correlation.

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[damn_registrars]

Was the video from The Daily Show blocked? It worked fine for me; if it was blocked most of the important points from it are in the text of the article. It really boils down to the fact that someone with a concealed carry permit who trains less than a police officer is more likely to become a casualty (or otherwise hinder law enforcement) than to do anything useful in an active shooter situation.

fewer guns tends to lead to fewer gun deaths

Indeed.

I was able to view the video about guns and suicides, though. Didn't realise there was such a direct correlation.

That's one of those things the gun manufacturers and their lobbies don't want people to be aware of.

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[Zontar The Mindless]

Was the video from The Daily Show blocked?

Yes. That wasn't so surprising, but the the chart from the NIH study was also blocked, which I found odd.