The NRA Myth of Arming the Good Guys

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The NRA Myth of Arming the Good Guys
Speaking Friday on CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello, perennial gun rights advocate John Lott said,
“My solution for these mass shootings is to look at the fact that every single time, these attacks occur where guns are banned. Every single time.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/oregon-shooting-gun-laws-213222#ixzz4EgOh29Az
After the slaughter of 14 Americans in San Bernardino, Calif., when two people armed with high-powered rifles and handguns ambushed unsuspecting Americans in a conference room,United States senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz held a press conference to issue a familiar refrain we hear after every major gun tragedy:
If only there had been a “good guy” with a gun there. Or, as Sen. Cruz put it:
“You stop bad guys by using our guns.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/12/11/terrorism-good-guy-gun-concealed-carry-column/77108230/
The National Rifle Association and its allies would have us believe that the solution to this epidemic, itself but a sliver of America's overall gun violence, is to put firearms in the hands of as many citizens as possible. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," declared the NRA's Wayne LaPierre in a press conference a week after Newtown, the same day bells tolled at the National Cathedral and the devastated town mourned its 28 dead. (That day a gunman in Pennsylvania also murdered three people and wounded a state trooper shortly before LaPierre gave his remarks.) LaPierre explained that it was a travesty for a school principal to face evil unarmed, and he called for gun-wielding security officers to be deployed in every school in America.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/nra-mass-shootings-myth
The NRA Myth of Gun-Free Zones
Ever since the massacres in Aurora, Colorado, and Newtown, Connecticut, it's been repeated like some surreal requiem: The reason mass gun violence keeps happening is because the United States is full of places that ban guns.
Second Amendment activists have long floated this theme, and now lawmakersacross the nation are using it too. During a recent floor debate in the Colorado Legislature, Republican state Rep. Carole Murray put it this way:
"Most of the mass killings that we talk about have been effected in gun-free zones. So when you have a gun-free zone, it's like saying, 'Come and get me.'"
The argument claims to explain both the motive behind mass shootings and how they play out. The killers deliberately choose sites where firearms are forbidden, gun-rights advocates say, and because there are no weapons, no "good guy with a gun" will be on hand to stop the crime.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/gun-free-zones-mass-shootings

[onecaliberal]

1. In Dallas, all the "good guys with guns" ran away, like the rest of the crowd trying to survive.