Would the Colorado Church have been better off with no CHLs?

[Nebor]

Next, an excellent retort by Wayne LaPierre:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/12/ ... .html#more

Opposing view: Right-to-carry saves lives
To reduce crime, some armed citizens are always better than none.
By Wayne LaPierre

Let's stop saying there's nothing new to say.

The policy that USA TODAY derided in a 1994 editorial as "one of the most cockamamie clichés in the pro-gun lexicon" halted unspeakable carnage in a Colorado Springs megachurch on Sunday.

Colorado's right-to-carry law ? which USA TODAY fiercely opposed as "an old West remedy" ? empowered volunteer security guard Jeanne Assam to stop a mass murderer inside her crowded church.

It is fortunate but not relevant that Assam had a law enforcement background. All permit-holders undergo training, testing and background checks.

Right-to-carry saves lives. That's news this paper should cover, not disregard.

While USA TODAY predicted mayhem that never materialized, right-to-carry laws have spread from 15 to 40 states since 1991.

Statistics can't console grieving families, but might be more useful than defeatist editorials in developing public firearms policy.

Our analysis of FBI crime data shows that in 2006, compared with the rest of the country, states with right-to-carry had overall average violent crime rates 26% lower.

Critics argue that right-to-carry will produce "too many" armed citizens, but in the same breath they say that if a crime occurs, there'll be "too few" armed citizens to be useful. The fact is, some armed citizens are always better than none.

Only a tiny fraction of those eligible to get a permit actually get one. But nobody knows how many permit-holders actually carry.

Therein lies the deterrent. An armed few make the many safer, because the bad guys don't know who's armed and who's not.

It's a myth that more permit-holders mean more accidents. In fact, firearm accidents are among the lowest rates on record.

It's time to come clean. Would USA TODAY prefer that Jeanne Assam had left her gun at home on Sunday? Would USA TODAY support repealing Colorado's right-to-carry law?

USA TODAY should give an accounting for its years of opposition to right-to-carry. Or concede that it indeed saves lives.

This is Wayne LaPierre's response to the USA article linked above.

CHLs save lives. More than can even be accounted for.

 

[Vette73]

OK we get it, you like guns.
Damm you post more threads about guns then I think all the RonPaul bots post about RP.

 

[Unheard]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
OK we get it, you like guns.
Damm you post more threads about guns then I think all the RonPaul bots post about RP.

Here's an idea for you... If it says Ron Paul in the title, or the OP is Nebor and the thread is about guns, ignore the post and move along. I figure as a lifer you would have figured that out by now.


To the OP. The incident itself is awful, but on the brighter side of things it shows that people who legally carry can and will save lives. It's unfortunate that there is still a minority out there (read Brady Campaign and the like) that no matter what evidence you give them, they are still convinced that a gun is going to crawl out of the store by itself and shoot an innocent child.