\u00a0“Your options are run, hide, or fight,\u201d the D.C. police chief said. \u201cIf you\u2019re in a position to try and take the gunman down, to take the gunman out, it\u2019s the best option for saving lives before police can get there.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now, that sounds both commonsensical and in line with current law-enforcement thinking on the subject (as we noted above).<\/p>\n
Now, there are many ways to “take down” a gunman. \u00a0If you’re a highly trained ninja, there’s all sorts of ninja fu. \u00a0Or you can charge at them and hit them with a bottle, a tablecloth, a book, or a WWE sleeper hold.<\/p>\n
Or those diligent civilians could use the most effective means of self-defense there is; a firearm. \u00a0A legal\u00a0handgun. \u00a0Police know as well as anyone else that someone resisting a lethal force attack with lethal force is four times as likely to survive as someone who who resists with non-leethal force, and seven times as likely as those who don’t resist.<\/p>\n
Civilians can – and do – avail themselves of this constitutional, legal and deadly effective means of defending themselves against crime, whether lowly street crime or a would-be mass-shooter.<\/p>\n
Half-Baked<\/strong>: \u00a0Or at least they can\u00a0in most of the United States. \u00a0But not if they’re in DC.<\/p>\nLanier \u2013 police chief for a city that still actively fights against\u00a0civilian gun rights \u2013 is apparently endorsing the “good guy with a gun” idea that the National Rifle Association and every other gun rights group (and, incidentally, current\u00a0police training regarding active shooters\u00a0these days) endorses \u2013 only without the gun.<\/p>\n
In other words, she’s advising people to do battle with murderous maniacs – only without the means to make it anything but nearly suicidal.<\/p>\n
She’s endorsing every part of the “Good Guy with a Gun” scenario but the gun – the part that makes it work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A couple of factoids to start with, first: For over a decade, now – since law Enforcement’s disastrous response to Columbine – law enforcement “active shooter” doctrine and training has emphasized resisting active shooters. \u00a0Their attacks are almost always more or less meticulously planned; resistance throws the plans off, and disrupts the shooters’ fantasy state. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[346],"class_list":["post-56250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-a-good-guy-with-a-gun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56265,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56250\/revisions\/56265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}