David Keene, the editor-at-large at the Washington Times, where my On Crime column regularly appears, offers a piece on good guys with guns.
On May 24,
trained police stood by for an hour while a crazed gunman killed 19 students
and two teachers in a Uvalde, Texas, school.
Weeks later, a 22-year-old
Hoosier saw another young man gunning down shoppers at an Indiana mall. Within
seconds, he got others to safety while drawing his own gun and expertly
shooting the terrorist. Not surprisingly, it is little wonder that a recent
opinion poll revealed that far more Americans have faith in an armed civilian
to stop a mass shooting than in either local or federal law enforcement
officers.
The Trafalgar Group poll was
actually taken days before young hero Eli Dicken carried his newly
legal Glock into the mall. Indiana had just adopted what is called a
“constitutional carry law,” enabling law-abiding gun owners to carry a
concealed firearm without a special license or permit, thanks to the Supreme
Court decisions that make these laws more likely. The poll results might well
have been even starker now.
The national poll showed that
41.8% of respondents have more faith in a nearby armed civilian, while only
25.1% would trust the police under such circumstances, and 10.3% of those surveyed
who would have more faith in a federal agent. Another 22.8% rather
fatalistically seemed to believe that none of these “good guys” with a gun
would be able to do much to stop a “bad guy” with a gun.
You can read
the rest of the piece via the below link:
Good guys with guns: Concealed carry saves lives - Washington Times
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