{"id":82573,"date":"2022-06-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82573"},"modified":"2022-06-23T10:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T15:33:08","slug":"cherry-picked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82573","title":{"rendered":"Cherry-Picked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not to sound cynical about big media – good heavens no, not me – but when I see the New York Times <\/em>reporting on active shooters, I pretty much expect their “reporting” to either lie, or to hide the accurate conclusion in plain sight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And they’ve done that<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They include a snazzy, Edward Tufte-style graphic to explicate their case – and they reached this conclusion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s direct, indisputable, empirical evidence that this kind of common claim that \u2018the only thing that stops a bad guy with the gun is a good guy with the gun\u2019 is wrong,\u201d said Adam Lankford, a professor at the University of Alabama, who has studied mass shootings for more than a decade. \u201cIt\u2019s demonstrably false, because often they are stopping themselves.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So let\u2019s look at the graphic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So let\u2019s take a look at the numbers.Out of nearly 250 mass shootings that ended before the police arrived, nearly 10% ended with the assailant being shot by a \u201cbystander\u201c – A \u201cgood guy with a gun\u201c. That’s nearly 10% of spree shootings, ended before the cops arrive<\/p> (That is, of course, presuming the media actually recognizes the episode. For example, they studiously ignored this recent incident<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even so, that is actually a tad higher than I’d have figured; given that spree killers tend to pick targets where nobody is likely to be able to resist them, and nowhere near 10% of the population at large generally carries a firearm, that’s actually a better result than one might rationally expect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But now, let\u2019s look at the other resolutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the 249 mass shootings that ended before the cops arrived, nearly 80% end with the killer either leaving the scene or committing suicide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the devil with these shootings is in the details. Some of the spree killers do leave the scenes of their crimes on their own two feet. But others “leave” because a citizen threatened them with immediate death – as in this case four years ago<\/a>, where two good guys with guns changed a would-be racist spree killer’s plans, one with the threat of death, one with gunfire, causing him to run away. He was apprehended later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One that killed himself, did it after killing two people – before a good guy pointed a gun at his head<\/a>. He ran into a nearby store, and killed himself. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or this case<\/a>, where a church “security guard” (a volunteer with a carry permit) shot a spree killer who’d murdered four people already. He killed himself, it’s true – after his plan had been fatally derailed by a good gal with a gun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what’s my conclusion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can tell Big Media is lying about guns when their lips are moving, or their fingers are touching keyboards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Same as it ever was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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