Don't believe the Left. Guns Do Save Lives

 According to D. Parker at the American Thinker Leftists can't deal with the fact that guns save lives. <sarcasm on>The proximate cause of this observation is the shooting in the Greenwood, Indiana mall by an evil miscreat with an AR 15. Unfortunately for the Left, he was quickly killed by a concealed carrier, severely limiting the death and carnage the murderer could cause. So sad.<sarcasm off>.  D. Parker writes:

Anti-liberty leftists are missing the point entirely complaining that the Greenwood good Samaritan violated their nonsensical gun free massacre zone rules.

Does anyone want to guess why the mass murdering miscreant chose that place to try and make a name for himself? Could it be that like many other murderers, it chose a massacre zone, a place that deprives the innocent of their God-given right of self-defense?

For some strange reason, anti-liberty leftists think that silly little signs and codes of conduct that say ‘No weapons’ are going to work, even though they’ve never worked before.

The latest revelation is that the good Samaritan ‘violated’ the sacred massacre zone rules of the mall, entirely missing the point that the mass murder also violated that rule. Given that a good guy with a gun stopped this crime in progress, does anyone want to guess how long this story is going to stick around? You can almost track the coverage in real time on sites like memeorandum ‘an auto-generated summary of the stories that US political commentators are discussing online right now’. Had this been the proper kind of crisis, the coverage would be expanding to no end.

As is so often the case, the Left has applied moral equivalency to cry and complain that some mean concealed carrier spoiled their narrative. Boohoohoo. But the truth is that guns do save lives.

It is true that these mass murderers are not often stopped by a concealed carrier with a gun.  But then, concealed carriers are not deputized to act as police.  We are not a public service like, for example, amateur radio operators which are a public service.  Those in law enforcement are trained to handle a number of diverse situations that include the use of deadly force.  Those who choose to carry a gun do so for self defence and the defense of their families.  Concealed carriers have a much narrower reasons for carrying a gun.  If a concealed carrier chooses to act to stop a mass murderer, he should be seen as a Good Samaratan, taking great personal risk for strangers.

The way that guns save lives  far more often is by de-escalating a situation.  The fact that one person has a gun, and is willing to use it if the other person doesn't stop what he is doing has a way of making someone think twice.  In my own case, I didn't even have to reveal the gun, I just had to reach under my jacket to get a firing grip, and the would be thief turned tail and walked the other way.  I hope he has another way to make money, by the way.  But he didn't get to make money at my expense that day.