Oregon Mall shooter was stopped by an armed Citizen
Media blackout: Oregon mall shooter was stopped by an armed citizen - Virginia Beach Conservative | Examiner.com
Not only has the national media refused to acknowledge this aspect of the deadly event, but law enforcement has as well.
Of course, the Obamamedia is in full support of even harsher gun control laws and it should come as no surprise that they would suppress any story which provides proof that lawfully armed citizens
do prevent crimes and save lives.
Here are a few facts about armed Americans:
-In 1982, the town of Kennesaw, Georgia, passed an
ordinance which
required all heads of household to have at least one gun in the house. The
burglary rate immediately dropped an astounding 89 percent. Ten years after the law was passed, the burglary rate was still 72 percent less than it was in 1981.
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Armed citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as the police do every year in this country (1,527 to 606).
-A 1996 University of Chicago
study concluded that states which passed concealed carry laws reduced
their murder rates by 8.5 percent,
rapes by 5 percent,
aggravated assaults by 7 percent,
and robbery by 3 percent.
-According to the
National Safety Council, with guns being used 2.5 million times a year in self defense against criminals,
firearms are actually used more than
80 times more often to protect lives, rather than to take lives.
-A 1979 Justice Department study entitled
Rape Victimization in American Cities, concluded that of more than 32,000 attempted rapes,
32 percent were actually committed.
But when a woman was armed with a gun or knife,
only 3 percent of the attempted rapes were actually committed.
-Another Justice Department
study found that 57 percent of felons agreed that
"
criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police."