I almost missed this one in the scrum of this past few weeks.
A couple of weeks ago, when Representatives Paymar and Martens tried to jam down a ban on law-abiding citizens carrying their legally-permitted firearms in the Capitol complex, the Strib’s Abby Simons wrote the paper’s follow-up piece.
It ended with a quote from Representative Martens; like most of Martens’ statements, it reeks of crap from rhetorical stem to stern. But I’ll emphasize the part I want to focus on today:
Heather Martens, executive director [Ha ha ha! – Ed.] of Protect Minnesota, an organization geared toward ending gun violence [Ha ha ha! – Ed.] and an advocate for the ban, said the intimidation happens when a loaded firearm is worn openly, as it was earlier this year during a hearing.
“There is no history of someone like that being a meaningful deterrent or being able to stop an attack,” she said.
If you read this blog, you are smarter than that.
John Lott showed how “someone like that” – multiplied by millions – have deterred hundreds of thousands of crimes in shall-issue states, as compared with discretionary or non-issue states (back when there were more of both).
As to stopping those attacks? Well, we’ve been through this before. Here’s a partial list of attacks stopped by law-abiding, non-police, private citizens with legal firearms:
- The Pearl, Mississippi school shooting, where a teacher grabbed a gun and stopped the two shooters.
- The Appalachian Law School shooting, where a would-be mass-murderer was stopped by a couple of armed students.
- A robbery that was devolving into a mass-shooting in Virginia was stopped by a CCW permittee.
- This episode in Texas recently
- An episode in Richmond, VA in the nineties where a shooter who intended to copycat the Luby’s Cafeteria massacre (in Killeen, TX) was stopped after killing one person, by another citizen with a legal handgun.
- The New Life Church shooting spree in Colorado Springs in 2007, ended by Jeanne Assam.
- This episode in Texas, where an armed man killed a mass shooter (and died, himself); it’s generally agreed he saved several lives in the process.
- An unknown “good samaritan” in South Minneapolis prevented himself from being murdered, two years ago.
- A bouncer in Minneapolis prevented himself, and very possibly a number of other people, from being carved up like Christmas hams a few years ago.
- Details are still sketchy, but it’s very likely one “VT” of Saint Paul prevented a murder – his – and possibly his friend’s a few weeks ago.
If Heather Martens – or any of her supporters and employees – are talking, the rule of thumb is “assume they’re lying”. Because they are.
For fun, I like to check in on the Madison’s Wisc State Journal to see what the Madison whackos are up to. Wisc 2nd amendment rights group is suing to stop the CC ban on Madison buses. It is fun to read the comments posted on the article. Several lefties said they will not ride the bus anymore if this goes through, as there will be shootouts on the buses. They sound like those from Minnesota who said, right before we got CC, that there will be shootouts at the state fair and at Twins games.
This is a blatant threadjack, but I’m so PROUD I hope you’ll forgive me.
South Carolina is nullifying Obamacare…period. Suck it lefties!
http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/09/south-carolina-voting-on-bill-to-end-obamacare-in-state/
TJF:gn.
The law school shooting. A student went out to his car to get his legal handgun, pointed it at the shooter, who then gave up. After he put his hands up due to the handgun being pointed at him, the shooter was then tackled.
How did MSM report the ending? “The shooting stopped when another student tackled him”.
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