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Do civilians with guns ever stop mass shootings?

I’m sure some are though to be fair, pretty much every mass shooting is started by a civilian with a gun too. :confused:
 
One thing gun control advocates continue to ignore is that almost all mass shooting happen, as the article states, where the perpetrator expects little or no resistance.

That's why they target schools, churches, bars, movie theaters, etc., rather than police stations, gun clubs, or places where they know people with guns hang out.

This story properly points outs a number of times people with guns have stopped mass shooting attempts in their tracks, but the fact is...the knowledge that victims possess weapons is also a major deterrent in-and-of itself against mass shooter targeting.
 
I’m sure some are though to be fair, pretty much every mass shooting is started by a civilian with a gun too. :confused:

the people LEAST likely to be deterred by gun bans, gun waiting periods, gun free zones, magazine limits and all the other idiotic crap the Bannerrhoid movement concocts as a pretense of crime control, are those most likely to cause mass killings.

the only sure way to stop a mass killing is to make sure those attacked can kill the attacker
 
One thing gun control advocates continue to ignore is that almost all mass shooting happen, as the article states, where the perpetrator expects little or no resistance.

That's why they target schools, churches, bars, movie theaters, etc., rather than police stations, gun clubs, or places where they know people with guns hang out.

This story properly points outs a number of times people with guns have stopped mass shooting attempts in their tracks, but the fact is...the knowledge that victims possess weapons is also a major deterrent in-and-of itself against mass shooter targeting.

example in 100+ years of its existence there has never been a mass shooting at the GRAND AMERICAN trap shoot where there are often 5000 people walking around with single shot or double barrel 12 Shotguns and tons of ammo

never a mass shooting at the USPSA nationals where there are hundreds of shooters walking around with 10-28 round semi automatic pistols being carried in speed rigs

none at the SASS nationals where guys dressed like old west gun fighters are packing single action revolvers, coach guns and lever action winchester rifles

None at the US Skeet championships either

and when I was the the olympic trials where people were armed with everything from $3000 air pistols to $11,000 Perazzi Mirage Skeet shotguns, we never worried about being attacked either

yet the Bannerrhoids tell me that its the presence of guns that makes us unsafe
 
You mean that someone standing her man could have stopped the Orlando Massacre before 100 odd people were down? She would have been a hero.

Orlando would have never happened in most places. That was ONE GUY holding ~300 people hostage. He should have been "bum-rushed" and had his ass kicked after the first person he shot. I just don't get why people allowed themselves to be shot without fighting back en masse.
 
One thing gun control advocates continue to ignore is that almost all mass shooting happen, as the article states, where the perpetrator expects little or no resistance.

That's why they target schools, churches, bars, movie theaters, etc., rather than police stations, gun clubs, or places where they know people with guns hang out.

This story properly points outs a number of times people with guns have stopped mass shooting attempts in their tracks, but the fact is...the knowledge that victims possess weapons is also a major deterrent in-and-of itself against mass shooter targeting.

That's why I support the idea of "gun-heavy" zones, instead of gun-free zones. Teachers and school staff should have advanced firearms training as part of their continuing education and there should always be a contingent of armed teachers/staff in our schools. Put up BIG signs in front of the schools stating: "This is an armed campus. Any attacks on our children or staff will be met with deadly force."
 
the only sure way to stop a mass killing is to make sure those attacked can kill the attacker
There’s no sure way to stop a mass killing and you can’t “make sure the attacked can kill” anyway. You can make it legal and easy for citizens to obtain and carry firearms but you can’t guarantee their presence in the event of a mass shooting or the competence of their response if they are.

I think you pro-gun people (gunnerhoids? ;) ) oversell your position just as much as the proponents of greater restrictions do.
 
Orlando would have never happened in most places. That was ONE GUY holding ~300 people hostage. He should have been "bum-rushed" and had his ass kicked after the first person he shot. I just don't get why people allowed themselves to be shot without fighting back en masse.

While I agree with that it takes a certain mentality of person to do that and for there to be enough people with that mentality present in order for it to succeed. Maybe this incident will make people think more about their options and condition them to be more likely to act if they ever find themselves in that same situation. Think about plane hijackings. There will never be another successful plane hijacking in the US because our population's way of thinking has changed from "comply and hope for the best" to "Let's roll" when it comes to that scenario. We need to get people thinking that way when they are on the ground as well.
 
Orlando would have never happened in most places. That was ONE GUY holding ~300 people hostage. He should have been "bum-rushed" and had his ass kicked after the first person he shot. I just don't get why people allowed themselves to be shot without fighting back en masse.

"bum-rushed", huh?
 
You mean that someone standing her man could have stopped the Orlando Massacre before 100 odd people were down? She would have been a hero.

Not true the media would have failed to mention it.

12 times and remember these are GUN FREE areas being discussed in case you try to claim why so few.

Oct. 1, 1997
Luke Woodham fatally stabbed his mother at home before opening fire at his high school, killing two students and injuring seven others. The attack was stopped when Assistant Principal Joel Myrick retrieved his .45 caliber handgun from his truck and confronted Woodham, detaining him until authorities could arrive.

Myrick’s action stopped Woodham from going across the street to the middle school as he had planned.

Read more: 12 Times Mass Shootings Were Stopped by Good Guys With Guns
 
Not true the media would have failed to mention it.

12 times and remember these are GUN FREE areas being discussed in case you try to claim why so few.

Oct. 1, 1997
Luke Woodham fatally stabbed his mother at home before opening fire at his high school, killing two students and injuring seven others. The attack was stopped when Assistant Principal Joel Myrick retrieved his .45 caliber handgun from his truck and confronted Woodham, detaining him until authorities could arrive.

Myrick’s action stopped Woodham from going across the street to the middle school as he had planned.

Read more: 12 Times Mass Shootings Were Stopped by Good Guys With Guns

There's that, I guess. So, never stop the massacre till the blood is splashing across the floor, or you won't get you 15 minutes of fame. ;)
 
Or, we should say: They almost never do.

To wit: The article cited 10 examples, covering a period of around 10 years. Even if we accept this at face value, there were well over 3000 mass shootings (incidents where 4 or more people were killed by one shooter in one incident).

Even if we double that number, that means 0.5% of mass shootings were stopped by someone with a gun.

To call that "rare" would be an understatement.
 
One thing gun control advocates continue to ignore is that almost all mass shooting happen, as the article states, where the perpetrator expects little or no resistance.

That's why they target schools, churches, bars, movie theaters, etc., rather than police stations, gun clubs, or places where they know people with guns hang out.

This story properly points outs a number of times people with guns have stopped mass shooting attempts in their tracks, but the fact is...the knowledge that victims possess weapons is also a major deterrent in-and-of itself against mass shooter targeting.
This is the 'party' line of gun advocates. That deterrence, implicit or explicit, will stop gun violence..

How do you explain the wild west of America in the 1800s where everyone had a gun (to survive) and there were daily..hourly shootings?

If there's going to be successful gun legislation, there needs to be actual gun legislation and not legislation that attempts to legislate guns and appease gun enthusiasts.
 
Of course, very often before it can become a mass shooting. Usually a mass shooter turns the gun on themselves the moment they encounter any armed resistance. The media doesn't report these instances, its against the narrative, but members of the GOA are notified of the stories daily. In fact American Rifleman magazine has a section for them in their monthly issues.

In fact legally speaking (US Code 10) Law Enforcement are Civilians. So technically, unless they turn the gun on themselves, ALL MASS SHOOTINGS ARE STOPPED BY CIVILIANS
 
Or, we should say: They almost never do.

To wit: The article cited 10 examples, covering a period of around 10 years. Even if we accept this at face value, there were well over 3000 mass shootings (incidents where 4 or more people were killed by one shooter in one incident).

Even if we double that number, that means 0.5% of mass shootings were stopped by someone with a gun.

To call that "rare" would be an understatement.

"Almost never do" is a large step up from the commonly held position that they "never do." More to the point the author made it clear that these are cases that he is personally aware of and that there is no central authoritative source of data on mass shooting stopped by armed citizens. As such it's probably a reasonable assumption that even your 0.5% number is significantly understated.
 
Or, we should say: They almost never do.

To wit: The article cited 10 examples, covering a period of around 10 years. Even if we accept this at face value, there were well over 3000 mass shootings (incidents where 4 or more people were killed by one shooter in one incident).

Even if we double that number, that means 0.5% of mass shootings were stopped by someone with a gun.

To call that "rare" would be an understatement.

If a mass shooting is stopped it never occurred so the logic behind your statistics is intellectually dishonest, not to mention it was only 10 EXAMPLES not a definitive list.
 
This is the 'party' line of gun advocates. That deterrence, implicit or explicit, will stop gun violence..

How do you explain the wild west of America in the 1800s where everyone had a gun (to survive) and there were daily..hourly shootings?

If there's going to be successful gun legislation, there needs to be actual gun legislation and not legislation that attempts to legislate guns and appease gun enthusiasts.

Evidence please. Oh, wait...I don't believe there were any efforts at accumulating such statistics back when the West was "Wild."

Now I actually studied the "Wild West," it was my Master's Degree minor. It really wasn't quite as "gunslinger" wild as you seem to think it was.

True, it was relatively lawless until organized into territories and Federal Judges and Marshalls were appointed. There were vast (if shrinking) swathes of land controlled by Native tribes, some towns had sheriffs or constables, there were issues with Mexico on who controlled/owned what over time, but you need to stop getting your ideas from watching cowboy-and-indian western movies.
 
Or, we should say: They almost never do.

To wit: The article cited 10 examples, covering a period of around 10 years. Even if we accept this at face value, there were well over 3000 mass shootings (incidents where 4 or more people were killed by one shooter in one incident).

Even if we double that number, that means 0.5% of mass shootings were stopped by someone with a gun.

To call that "rare" would be an understatement.

But that stat doesn't tell us the efficacy of a "good guy with a gun" unless it is accompanied by the stat that tells us in how many of those mass shooting situations was a good guy with a gun even present. If nobody there but the assailant had a gun, due to it being a gun free zone or just nobody there carrying, then the fact that a good guy with a gun didn't succeed in stopping it doesn't mean anything.

The overwhelming majority of people, even in places with a strong gun culture, don't carry. So even if it isn't a gun free zone, and since most mass shootings "only" involve 4-6 people, statistically it is unlikely a concealed carrier is going to be present.
 
But that stat doesn't tell us the efficacy of a "good guy with a gun" unless it is accompanied by the stat that tells us in how many of those mass shooting situations was a good guy with a gun even present. If nobody there but the assailant had a gun, due to it being a gun free zone or just nobody there carrying, then the fact that a good guy with a gun didn't succeed in stopping it doesn't mean anything.

The overwhelming majority of people, even in places with a strong gun culture, don't carry. So even if it isn't a gun free zone, and since most mass shootings "only" involve 4-6 people, statistically it is unlikely a concealed carrier is going to be present.

The question wasn't "would we be safer if there were more guns?" It was "do good guys with guns prevent mass shootings?"

Now, we'd need a time machine to actually answer the question because, if a shooter is neutralized before getting the chance to engage in a mass shooting, we don't know whether or not the shooter would have engaged in a mass shooting.
 
Evidence please. Oh, wait...I don't believe there were any efforts at accumulating such statistics back when the West was "Wild."

Now I actually studied the "Wild West," it was my Master's Degree minor. It really wasn't quite as "gunslinger" wild as you seem to think it was.

True, it was relatively lawless until organized into territories and Federal Judges and Marshalls were appointed. There were vast (if shrinking) swathes of land controlled by Native tribes, some towns had sheriffs or constables, there were issues with Mexico on who controlled/owned what over time, but you need to stop getting your ideas from watching cowboy-and-indian western movies.
There's this link for your perusal. De-mythologizing the Wild West: gun laws were actually stricter then than now The wild actually had stricter gun control laws than now...because of gun violence.

Then there's this link Did the Wild West Have More Gun Control Than We Do Today? Evidently, there was such gun violence in the wild west that sheriffs had guns dropped off outside the city limits and tokens issued to the gun possessor.
 
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