Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Good Guys With Guns: Former Interpol Chief Ron Noble On The Westgate Mall Mass Shooting

Good Guys With Guns: Former Interpol Chief Ron Noble On The Westgate Mall Mass Shooting

May 24, 2016 Good Guys With Guns: Former Interpol Chief Ron Noble On The Westgate Mall Mass Shooting , 0 Comments


By Washington Post, May 17, 2016 

One of the differences between moderate advocates of gun control and prohibitionists is in their attitudes toward self-defense. The former are willing to recognize that defensive arms in the right hands can be socially beneficial. The latter deny that firearms do in fact save lives. A good example is Katie Couric’s new TV special “Under the Gun.” In that program, Matt Lauer states: “There is a very common expression out there that ‘The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to have a good guy with a gun.’ ” Couric answers, “Most public health experts and gun safety experts say that it is just a specious argument.”

The unnamed “experts” on whom Couric relies are apparently not expert at reading newspapers. Literally, a good guy with a gun is not the “only” way that armed criminals are stopped. But it is an important way, including in mass shootings. As I detailed in a 2015 study for the Cato Institute:
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