Texas gun laws: Weapons will be allowed in churches and on school grounds

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19. Vox - The "good guy with a gun" myth is just that.

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The problem with laws promoting the proliferation of guns is that on a bad day any good guy with a gun can become a bad guy with a guy. This is why gun ownership is tied to higher incidence of domestic homicides. I doubt that husbands were purchasing guns in the first place on the off chance that they planned to shoot their wives.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/6/16612014/sutherland-springs-shooting-good-guy-gun

It could have been worse, but it wasn’t — thanks to “a good guy with a gun.” That’s what several conservative media outlets, from Breitbart to Fox News to the Blaze, are suggesting following the mass shooting at a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church on Sunday.

According to this narrative, an unnamed armed neighbor saved “countless lives” with his bravery after he intervened with his own weapon at the church shooting, pursuing the gunman who killed at least 26 people in Texas. The gunman was reportedly shot before he shot himself, Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt told CNN.

The reports go back to an idea perpetuated by the National Rifle Association (NRA) for years: As the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre put it following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.” Basically, if more people are armed, they can stop violence before it gets bad or prevent it altogether.

If Texas is an example of this concept in action, though, it sure doesn’t seem to work. Before another armed person intervened against the Sutherland Springs gunman, he had already killed at least 26 people and injured approximately 20 others. He managed to shoot more than 40 people before “a good guy with a gun” reportedly helped stop him.