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Showing Original Post only (View all)"If they have the drop on you, you will get shot if you resist with a gun" [View all]
This is just an anecdote. As such, it cannot prove trends, it can only disprove categorical comments about what will happen if you use a gun defensively.
Just after 10 p.m. a 36-year-old man was confronted by a robber with a shotgun in the parking lot of the Walgreens located in the 3600 block of College. The man said the robber held the shotgun to his head and demanded money.
The man, a concealed handgun license holder, was able to get his handgun and fired one shot at the would-be robber. The robber dropped his shotgun and took off running fleeing south behind the store. The intended victim was not injured during this confrontation and he did not lose any property.
Patrol Officers set up a perimeter and with the assistance of our K-9 Unit began to search for the robber. An officer saw a man hiding behind a business near the area of Interstate 10 and Corley. The man matched the description of the robber. Police say the man also had a gunshot wound to his hip.
The original victim positively identified this man as the robber.
http://www.12newsnow.com/story/19253451/shotgun-robber-not-successful
The man, a concealed handgun license holder, was able to get his handgun and fired one shot at the would-be robber. The robber dropped his shotgun and took off running fleeing south behind the store. The intended victim was not injured during this confrontation and he did not lose any property.
Patrol Officers set up a perimeter and with the assistance of our K-9 Unit began to search for the robber. An officer saw a man hiding behind a business near the area of Interstate 10 and Corley. The man matched the description of the robber. Police say the man also had a gunshot wound to his hip.
The original victim positively identified this man as the robber.
http://www.12newsnow.com/story/19253451/shotgun-robber-not-successful
This disproves a few anti-gun "facts":
"If they have the drop on you, you will get shot if you try to draw your gun."
"If you try to use a gun, they will simply take it from you."
"You will miss the criminal and hit innocent bystanders."
"The only purpose of a handgun is to kill people."
This gun served its intended purposeit defended the life of the CCW permit holder. His gun wasn't taken from him, nor did he shoot innocent people. He wasn't hurt in any way; he didn't even lose money. And no one died.
A shotgun is the single most fearsome short distance conventional gun, yet a guy with a handgun and the element of surprise was able to overcome the felon with a mere handgun.
This just goes to demonstrate that biased (and ill-informed) imagination is not synonymous with reality. People come here all the time to tell usoften with great conviction and even contemptthat things like this can't happen. They're wrong.
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"If they have the drop on you, you will get shot if you resist with a gun" [View all]
TPaine7
Aug 2012
OP
Did you not read the OP or do you have a rule against letting facts affect your opinions?
TPaine7
Aug 2012
#60
When I was a kid, the mother of my friend was killed when his father, a cop ...
JoePhilly
Aug 2012
#14
I have never known anyone, of any persuasion, who claimed that gun accidents don't happen
TPaine7
Aug 2012
#28
I'm told that guns protect your family more than they create a risk to your family ...
JoePhilly
Aug 2012
#30
Well, if I do get "ignored" ... I do hope that I get the "Welcome to my ignore list" response.
JoePhilly
Aug 2012
#23
Suicide with a gun is possible. Have you seen anyone claim otherwise on DU? n/t
TPaine7
Aug 2012
#22
I personally know of three anecdotal tales in which people with a carry permit ...
spin
Aug 2012
#41
Holding a long gun to somene's head isn't very smart. If they can get inside the length of the
TPaine7
Aug 2012
#15
Wrong. I don't know anyone who argues that if you try to defend yourself with a gun,
DanTex
Aug 2012
#44
Yes, but if the term "every time" isn't implicitly included, then a single anecdote..
DanTex
Aug 2012
#49
Oh, I get it! You are using anecdotal evidence to disprove categorical arguments that...
DanTex
Aug 2012
#54
They need to be deterred, definitely. Shooting anyone should be an absolute last resort.
Starboard Tack
Aug 2012
#71
Some people seem to assume all legal gun owners are incompetent rubes, but . . .
4th law of robotics
Aug 2012
#67