Compiling Cases where concealed handgun permit holders have stopped mass public shootings and other mass attacks

Yeah, fuck you google you evil fucks trying to manipulate the elections. You and your leftist political agenda. Fuck you all.

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After a school massacre, the U.K. banned handguns in 1998. A decade later, handgun crime had doubled.

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Peaceful Man Arrested for Defending Himself. Stun Gun is a "Firearm", Self Defense is "Vigilantism"

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A taser is considered a "firearm" and defending yourself against violent attackers is considered "vigilantism".

From the article:

He had bought the stun gun, which was billed as a 'self defence torch', from a Dutch trucker after his friend was robbed by migrants whilst driving through Calais. 

The court heard the devices are legal in both Holland and France, where they are available freely at petrol stations and are frequently carried by lorry drivers. 

However it is classed as a firearm in the UK, meaning Mr Garrett was arrested on the spot when it was found in his vehicle. 

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Sentencing Mr Garrett to six months in jail, suspended for two years, Judge David Goodin said he understood the trucker had been put in a "very difficult position" by the ongoing chaos at Calais. 

He said: "The court does accept international drivers coming from northern France through the Channel ports have a particularly difficult time of it presently because of the determined attentions of illicit immigrants who want to hitch on unobserved and get themselves to England at very nearly all costs. 

"One understands the more desperate they are the more alarming it is for a lorry driver who might find in the course of an inspection that he has such unwanted guests on his wagon. 

"Nevertheless the law cannot accept any attempt of vigilantism whatever the temptation may be for lorry drivers to arm themselves for the purpose of repelling these illegals." 

Wikipedia:
Persons alleged to be escaping the law or above the law are sometimes the victims of vigilantism. Vigilante behavior involves various degrees of violence. Vigilantes may assault targets verbally, physically, vandalize property, or even kill individuals.

That's Right, More Guns, Less Crime

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The latest article details something local gun rights blogger, and NRA-certified firearms instructor, Rick Ector has called the “Chief Craig effect.” Ector explains that the law enforcement official’s “support and endorsement has been helpful” in getting residents to exercise their gun rights. Further, Ector contends, “Home invasions have gone down… A huge reason was that there was a huge spate of homeowners using their guns against intruders. More people have guns and it’s making burglars cautious.”

Defensive Gun Use Reports

Lots of defensive gun use reports at this site:
http://concealednation.org/

Concealed carrier saves the day at Waffle House: "He saved us, that's what he did."

Concealed Carrier Stops Carjacking in Progress

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Lots of defensive gun use reports at this site:
http://concealednation.org/

Mass Shooting Stopped in its Tracks by Concealed Handgun Carrier

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“The person who responded was a legal gun permit carrier,” said Philadelphia Police Captain Frank Llewellyn. “He responded and I guess he saved a lot of people in there.”

Police say there was a crowd of patrons inside the shop at the time of the shooting, including several children, but no one else was injured.

“There were numerous people in there,” Captain Llewellyn said. “So it could have been a lot worse.”

See how some "news" outlets obfuscate what really happened. This demonstrates what John Lott has found in his research, how the leftist media downplays or refuses to report on defensive gun use by civilians.

Proof That Stand Your Ground Laws Are Not a License to Kill

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4 Self Defense Stories

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How a Gun Free Zone Helped Kill Her Husband

Liberals Think Law Abiding Gun Owners Want to Go Around Killing People

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"I sit in our City Commission meeting week after week anxious and frightened because a civilian with a gun is in this chamber. I know that he can kill me, and probably others at this table or in these chambers, before the police officer in the rear of the room can react. Carrying a gun always, always represents the threat to use that gun to kill or maim another. That, after all, is why these people carry their guns."

"I urge all citizens who feel as I do to take action. Arm yourselves with the righteousness of our position. If you see an armed person come into a store or restaurant, alert others and leave the establishment. If you see an armed person in a shopping mall or movie theatre, alert security and leave the building. If you see an armed person approaching a school, call the police. You see we can never know what that individual’s intention may be. We must always err on the side of public safety rather than regretting later, when people are dead, that we didn’t act."

Austin Woman Saves Her Life With Her Gun

Good Guy With Gun Stops School Massacre

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I do not advocate government agents in schools with guns -- it's a bad idea because too many of them are either total cowards or psychopaths bent on escalating almost any kind of minor situation until it gets out of hand so that they can then become violent.

Better to solicit volunteers from the school staff and teachers, train them and either have them carry concealed or have guns in secure lock boxes.

First Responder

Armed bystander thwarts stun-gun robbery outside Concord bank

I doubt a cop would have risked doing this.

Guns in Schools? Yes.

One Punch Can Kill a Man

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What if Crystal Scott was White and Jonathan Ables was Black? (Black Woman Kills White Man Claiming Self Defense)

Article  - so why didn't this make the national news?

A woman has now been charged in what investigators call a deadly road rage attack after a minor traffic accident.
On Sept. 17 deputies said Crystal Scott, 23 [black], opened fire on Jonathan Ables, 22 [white], outside a northwest Harris County gas station. The shooting happened around 7:15 a.m. on FM 1960 at Perry Road, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
Scott said she feared for her life when Ables approached her car so she shot him. Investigators said Scott never got out of her car and shot Jonathan Ables in the chest.

After a school massacre, the U.K. banned handguns in 1998. A decade later, handgun crime had doubled

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By JOYCE LEE MALCOLM

Americans are determined that massacres such as happened in Newtown, Conn., never happen again. But how? Many advocate more effective treatment of mentally-ill people or armed protection in so-called gun-free zones. Many others demand stricter control of firearms.

We aren't alone in facing this problem. Great Britain and Australia, for example, suffered mass shootings in the 1980s and 1990s. Both countries had very stringent gun laws when they occurred. Nevertheless, both decided that even stricter control of guns was the answer. Their experiences can be instructive.

In 1987, Michael Ryan went on a shooting spree in his small town of Hungerford, England, killing 16 people (including his mother) and wounding another 14 before shooting himself. Since the public was unarmed—as were the police—Ryan wandered the streets for eight hours with two semiautomatic rifles and a handgun before anyone with a firearm was able to come to the rescue.

Nine years later, in March 1996, Thomas Hamilton, a man known to be mentally unstable, walked into a primary school in the Scottish town of Dunblane and shot 16 young children and their teacher. He wounded 10 other children and three other teachers before taking his own life.

Since 1920, anyone in Britain wanting a handgun had to obtain a certificate from his local police stating he was fit to own a weapon and had good reason to have one. Over the years, the definition of "good reason" gradually narrowed. By 1969, self-defense was never a good reason for a permit.

After Hungerford, the British government banned semiautomatic rifles and brought shotguns—the last type of firearm that could be purchased with a simple show of fitness—under controls similar to those in place for pistols and rifles. Magazines were limited to two shells with a third in the chamber.

Dunblane had a more dramatic impact. Hamilton had a firearm certificate, although according to the rules he should not have been granted one. A media frenzy coupled with an emotional campaign by parents of Dunblane resulted in the Firearms Act of 1998, which instituted a nearly complete ban on handguns. Owners of pistols were required to turn them in. The penalty for illegal possession of a pistol is up to 10 years in prison.

The results have not been what proponents of the act wanted. Within a decade of the handgun ban and the confiscation of handguns from registered owners, crime with handguns had doubled according to British government crime reports. Gun crime, not a serious problem in the past, now is. Armed street gangs have some British police carrying guns for the first time. Moreover, another massacre occurred in June 2010. Derrick Bird, a taxi driver in Cumbria, shot his brother and a colleague then drove off through rural villages killing 12 people and injuring 11 more before killing himself.

Meanwhile, law-abiding citizens who have come into the possession of a firearm, even accidentally, have been harshly treated. In 2009 a former soldier, Paul Clarke, found a bag in his garden containing a shotgun. He brought it to the police station and was immediately handcuffed and charged with possession of the gun. At his trial the judge noted: "In law there is no dispute that Mr. Clarke has no defence to this charge. The intention of anybody possessing a firearm is irrelevant." Mr. Clarke was sentenced to five years in prison. A public outcry eventually won his release.

In November of this year, Danny Nightingale, member of a British special forces unit in Iraq and Afghanistan, was sentenced to 18 months in military prison for possession of a pistol and ammunition. Sgt. Nightingale was given the Glock pistol as a gift by Iraqi forces he had been training. It was packed up with his possessions and returned to him by colleagues in Iraq after he left the country to organize a funeral for two close friends killed in action. Mr. Nightingale pleaded guilty to avoid a five-year sentence and was in prison until an appeal and public outcry freed him on Nov. 29.

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Six weeks after the Dunblane massacre in 1996, Martin Bryant, an Australian with a lifelong history of violence, attacked tourists at a Port Arthur prison site in Tasmania with two semiautomatic rifles. He killed 35 people and wounded 21 others.

At the time, Australia's guns laws were stricter than the United Kingdom's. In lieu of the requirement in Britain that an applicant for permission to purchase a gun have a "good reason," Australia required a "genuine reason." Hunting and protecting crops from feral animals were genuine reasons—personal protection wasn't.

With new Prime Minister John Howard in the lead, Australia passed the National Firearms Agreement, banning all semiautomatic rifles and semiautomatic and pump-action shotguns and imposing a more restrictive licensing system on other firearms. The government also launched a forced buyback scheme to remove thousands of firearms from private hands. Between Oct. 1, 1996, and Sept. 30, 1997, the government purchased and destroyed more than 631,000 of the banned guns at a cost of $500 million.

To what end? While there has been much controversy over the result of the law and buyback, Peter Reuter and Jenny Mouzos, in a 2003 study published by the Brookings Institution, found homicides "continued a modest decline" since 1997. They concluded that the impact of the National Firearms Agreement was "relatively small," with the daily rate of firearms homicides declining 3.2%.

According to their study, the use of handguns rather than long guns (rifles and shotguns) went up sharply, but only one out of 117 gun homicides in the two years following the 1996 National Firearms Agreement used a registered gun. Suicides with firearms went down but suicides by other means went up. They reported "a modest reduction in the severity" of massacres (four or more indiscriminate homicides) in the five years since the government weapons buyback. These involved knives, gas and arson rather than firearms.

In 2008, the Australian Institute of Criminology reported a decrease of 9% in homicides and a one-third decrease in armed robbery since the 1990s, but an increase of over 40% in assaults and 20% in sexual assaults.

What to conclude? Strict gun laws in Great Britain and Australia haven't made their people noticeably safer, nor have they prevented massacres. The two major countries held up as models for the U.S. don't provide much evidence that strict gun laws will solve our problems.

Ms. Malcolm, a professor of law at George Mason University Law School, is the author of several books including "Guns and Violence: The English Experience," (Harvard, 2002).

School Shooters Under the Influence of Psychiatric Drugs

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From The Citizens Commission on Human Rights

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Another School Shooting, Another Psychiatric Drug? Federal Investigation Long Overdue
"Fact: Despite 22 international drug regulatory warnings on psychiatric drugs citing effects of mania, hostility, violence and even homicidal ideation, and dozens of high profile shootings/killings tied to psychiatric drug use, there has yet to be a federal investigation on the link between psychiatric drugs and acts of senseless violence.

Fact: At least fourteen recent school shootings were committed by those taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs resulting in 109 wounded and 58 killed (in other school shootings, information about their drug use was never made public—neither confirming or refuting if they were under the influence of prescribed drugs.)

Fact: Between 2004 and 2011, there have been over 11,000 reports to the U.S. FDA’s MedWatch system of psychiatric drug side effects related to violence.  These include 300 cases of homicide, nearly 3,000 cases of mania and over 7,000 cases of aggression.  Note:  By the FDA’s own admission, only 1-10% of side effects are ever reported to the FDA, so the actual number of side effects occurring are most certainly higher."

There's a reason the government does not want to investigate this. It helps give them the ability to pass anti-gun laws, thus gradually disarming the population. This is the natural progression of tyranny. Since government in all of its forms, no matter how small, is tyranny ("legalized" theft and murder, i.e. "taxation", "war"), one of  the final steps necessary for total control (and that, again is the natural progression of a system of coercion, i.e. "government"), is disarming the public.

That's what Hitler did to the Jews, he first made laws to disarm them. How did that work out?

Facts About Gun Laws (Why They Don't Prevent Shootings)

Oct 2015 - NY Times - the mass shooters who got their guns legally.



“Rarely if ever do you see people who have bought a gun responsibly killing a cop,” Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said. “That never happens.” Universal background checks won't help.


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Think Tough Gun Laws Keep Europeans Safe? Think Again... (John Lott)

Interpol Chief Ponders Armed Citizenry After Westgate.

Detroit Police Chief Supports Armed Citizenry

Senior Citizens prevent mass shooting because citizen had concealed handgun permit. (not that anyone should need permission, the criminals sure don't ask) Link to local news article.

If you're an off duty cop you're allowed to defend yourself like this, but if you're not, well, you're shit out of luck, because the people who call themselves "government" in Chicago think they are the elite and everyone else should be ruled by them.

Common myths about "gun control."

Survey of police - the vast majority favor civilian gun ownership and permissive concealed carry. Most think "gun violence" is caused by "decline of parent and family values".

Guns Save Lives site documenting some of the instances of self defense in the U.S.

CDC Study on "gun violence" including quantification of defensive gun uses in the U.S.

One of the best articles pointing out the folly of "gun control", by Thomas Sowell

Where Does That “90% of Americans Support Expanded Background Checks” Come From? Misleading wording and question 35 which never gets MSMedia coverage.

CDC cause of death paper (includes firearm deaths). Homicide was 16th.

Very good written statement to Senate Judiciary on the AWB ban.

False: 40% of gun sales do not have background checks.

Massachusetts has the most strict gun control laws and gun crime has increased.

Sheriffs in New York slam SAFE Act.

Pearl Junior High Shooting Spree Stopped by Armed Citizen:
The school shooter "went on to wound seven others before leaving, intending to drive off campus and conduct another shooting at the nearby Pearl Junior High School. However, assistant principal Joel Myrick had retrieved a .45 pistol from the glove compartment of his truck and subdued Woodham inside his mother's car."

How many children did this armed citizen save?


Appalachian School of Law Shooting Spree Stopped by Armed Citizens:
"On January 16, 2002, a disgruntled former student at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, had killed three people, including the school’s dean, when two students, both off-duty law-enforcement officers, retrieved their weapons and pointed them at the shooter, who ended his killing spree and surrendered."


Police Stop Mass School Shooting
See comment from alfromchgo who was the officer's Sergeant for more details. Do a search on the page for
alfromchgo.


School district in Texas has had staff with concealed handguns since 2007
David Thweatt said there have been no incidents since October 2007, when his district adopted the plan giving an unspecified number of teachers and school staff -- dubbed "Guardians" -- authority to carry concealed weapons on school premises. Participating staff are anonymous and known only to Thweatt and the school board, which must approve each application for an employee to become a Guardian. They receive a small stipend annually.

“We’re 18 miles and 30 minutes from the nearest police station," Thweatt said. "So we are our first responders. If something happened here, we would have to protect our children. You know, police officers are true, everyday heroes in my book, but one of them once told me something very revealing. He said, ‘Ninety-five percent of the time, we get to the scene late.’ I can’t afford to let that happen.”

Thomas Sowell: In Gun Control Debate, Rhetoric Replaces Hard Facts

David Thweatt interview.


Less than 2% of gun crimes involve "assault weapons".


Spree shooters on prescription drugs.


Barbara Boxer Wants National Guard in Government Indoctrination Camps. If the NRA suggests it, it's bad, if Barbara Boxer suggests it, it's good.


NPR has a somewhat reasonable discussion (3 anti's against one slightly weak pro)


Homeowner shoots 3 heavily armed home invaders. Case for 30 round magazines.


The Port Arthur Australia massacre shooter may have been motivated by media coverage of another massacre. Continue reading for "copy-cat" motivations also:

"Professor Paul Mullen, a forensic psychiatrist with extensive involvement following the string of massacres in Australia and New Zealand, attributes both the Port Arthur Massacre and some of the earlier massacres to the copycat effect.^[22] In this theory the saturation media coverage provides both instruction and perverse incentives for dysfunctional individuals to imitate previous crimes. In Tasmania, a coroner found that a report on the current affairs programme A Current Affair, a few months earlier had guided one suicide, and may have helped create the expectation of a massacre.^[23][24][25] The coverage of the Dunblane massacre, in particular the attention on the perpetrator, is thought to have provided the trigger for Bryant to act." - Wikipedia


Extremely strict Australian gun laws after the Port Arthur massacre did little or nothing. (Wikipedia)

Australia's Gun Laws - Little Effect (Time Magazine):
"The hypothesis that the removal of a large number of firearms owned by civilians [would lead to fewer gun-related deaths] is not borne out by the evidence."


Self-Defense:
“When society falters in its ability to protect my family, my response is not to give up my ability to protect them and hope the criminals and the mentally ill will go along with the program.”


How the Media May be a Contributor:
You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here’s why.
It’s because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single victim of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he’ll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.

- Morgan Freeman

500 homicides in "gun free" Chicago - McCarthy issued a statement Friday calling the milestone a "tragic number that is reflective of the gang violence and proliferation of illegal guns that have plagued some of our neighborhoods."

- Chicago is one of the capitols of "gun control". Working well, isn't it? Make guns illegal and only the criminals have them.

Do magazine capacity limits limit leathality?

Misleading "facts" "gun control" advocates use...

They want to ban kitchen knives in Britain. Really. (BBC)

Gun Control, Gun Rights, Gun Politics and Newtown

FBI report that demonstrates the need for AR-15's for
civilians normal peaceful people.

Double-standard for the rich and famous. No charges against David Gregory, but if you're a normal person, you will go down.

U.S. founder's quotes on 2nd Amendment.

Forensic Psychologist Dr Park Dietz has been asking media to not do what they continue to do to encourage more massacres:


Reason citizens need semi-automatic rifles with 30 round standard capacity magazines:


Excellent discussion here:


This Sheriff wants people in his area armed (starts 3:30)




Supporting documentation for the Reason video.























Violence and suicide caused by anti-depressant medications: