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Related: About this forumWoman uses 2 guns to shoot at would-be home invasion robber
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The man who answered the door told the suspect at the door that he didn't know the person and tried to close the door, but the suspect forced his way in.
The suspect pointed a gun at the man's head and said "This is a robbery, give it up," according to the report.
A woman in a bedroom in the home heard the commotion and came out with a handgun, dove on the floor and started shooting at the suspect.
The suspect exchanged gunfire with the woman, who went back to the bedroom for another handgun and kept shooting at the suspect.
http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/news/local/woman-uses-2-guns-shoot-would-be-home-invasion-rob/njpht/#sthash.fbALotCj.BUrbzC29.dpuf
"Only gunners feel like they need multiple guns."
"The only purpose for more than 6 rounds is mass murder."
"What are the odds of ever needing a gun?"
"You're safer without one in your home."
machI
(1,285 posts)I bet she bought her weapon at a gun show too.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)to compensate for her low self esteem. Either that or she secretly wants to shoot up a mall.
All joking aside, I'm betting the perp realized pretty quickly that he had picked on the wrong household.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)It's sad to contemplate how many times he may have picked right household.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Because that's how it's done in the movies. Wow, these gun nuts should't have guns period.
blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)In other words, moved to cover and then returned fire rather than standing still to present a stationary target. A lot of LEO's wouldn't have the presence of mind to move to cover; it's not part of the general training and under stress a person will respond as trained.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)I was thinking she is (prior) Army.
blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)I wish our semi-annual requal included moving to cover; time constraints and other issues seem to prevent this.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)She could have shot her boyfriend, or someone walking outside, a cat, dog or child in home. I understand taking cover, but it seems she was randomly shooting. Why not hide in bedroom and catch him by surprise behind bedroom door, or approach it another way.
blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)No innocent third parties were wounded or killed.
Therefore, it worked. Pretty simple, really.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)They were LUCKY. Lucky she didn't shoot her boyfriend. Lucky she didn't shoot a passerby. Her gun could have killed more people.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,553 posts)According to the pro-control graphic...
...it's not a DGU because the perp didn't die.
OTOH, when the perp dies, it's not a DGU...
...it's an unjustified SYG.
blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)this one understands now. Thanks for the enlightenment....it's all so clear.....
Seriously, that does seem to fit the template for the pro-control side.
I wonder if someone here regards her as a "glib sociopath gunthusiast"?
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,553 posts)So is that GSG for short?
Who knows.
Miyagi say "Whole life have a balance."
So we what do I know? Maybe I'm unbalanced.
I'm probably just an adjective impaired ammosexual.
blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)I don't suppose a twinkie in each hand is what he was referring to?
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,553 posts)gejohnston
(17,502 posts)especially NYPD.
adrenaline and stress does effect you. Does the article mention how many times the attacker was hit?
Do we know:
Revolver or semi auto? If latter, how many rounds? Make, model.
caliber?
type of ammo?
All of those are factors.
According to the article, he was hit several times. There is a chance she didn't miss at all. It really sounds like you are making assumptions based on little to no information on a subject you know nothing about.
Back to your point, if she didn't her and her boyfriend could be dead too. But then, that gives people like Bloomberg a statistic for political advantage and blood to dance in.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Most gun banners would rather I die at the hands of a criminal than protect myself with a firearm. My death would give them more ammunition (no pun intended) for their pro-ban agenda. If, on the other hand, I shoot a criminal, it's "another needles gun casualty." After all, why wouldn't I just call the police? They can protect me at all times.
Straw Man
(6,744 posts)Remember that the next time you hear calls for magazine capacity limits.
But she didn't.
Please explain what led you to that supposition.
Because she had already been seen.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)is in the military or a veteran.
She prevailed. A violent felony was stopped as it was being commissioned. Why does that upset you so?
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Last edited Sun Jan 18, 2015, 08:36 PM - Edit history (1)
A violent felony was prevented thanks to her courage, her quick thinking, and the fact that she had a firearm handy. Does it offend you that the good guy won here? Some people would rather see any outcome other than one involving firearms, even if the bad guy wins and the good guy ends up dead.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)But bullets can and do harm innocent people. How many of her shots hit the target? How close did her boyfriend come to being shot by her? It's not a game. When you shoot someone, you better have a good shot lined up. What's that saying Fire, Aim, Ready?
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)but all things considered, I'm glad this woman had a firearm to defend her home. If she had been unarmed, she and her husband would likely have been further victimized. The bad guys always like it when the good guys don't have guns.
machI
(1,285 posts)Were told the suspect was shot multiple times.
Wow, the victim takes action to prevent being shot by a predatory criminal, and Politicalboi thinks it is funny.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)You dive onto the ground to present the smallest possible target, genius.
napi21
(45,806 posts)She's well trained. I wish EVERY gun owner was that good.
Marengo
(3,477 posts)Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)Last edited Sun Jan 18, 2015, 08:29 PM - Edit history (1)
blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)Because no one ever kicks doors open in the process of committing a forcible felony. Ever.
blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)"Glib, sociopathic gun enthusiast"?
branford
(4,462 posts)reportedly pulled a gun and pointed it at the victims head, saying this is a robbery, give it up.
Are you actually claiming that armed home invaders never shoot anyone unless first fired upon? Should the wife just have hid in a bedroom, and hoped the violent invader didn't kill her husband and then come to get her?
I understand you opposition to firearms, but your comment defies common sense. Are you really so anti-gun that you cannot acknowledge any instances where they might have saved innocent lives?
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)You don't disappoint.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Even if he had said "well guns suck, but at least it worked out in this situation" I could have seen some value in his post. Instead it's "why didn't they lock their doors?"
Why do the gun banners always blame the good guys?
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)would be admitting that all their righteous proclaimations that a gun in the house is more dangerous was wrong.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)That's a double loss for the pro-ban crowd.
Worked out well for the good guys, though, except this poor woman and her husband are undoubtedly traumatized by being forced to defend themselves against a criminal with deadly force.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)GGJohn
(9,951 posts)That's fucking hilarious.
Any more victims you want to blame?
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)branford
(4,462 posts)You explicitly claim, "If they had only kept the door locked, nobody would have fired a shot."
What is the basis for this assertion? Are you claiming that armed home invaders never shoot anyone unless first fired upon? Any study or scholarly writing making such a allegation would be most interesting to read and discuss.
Similarly, are you proposing that the best survival strategy for the woman in the story would have been to hide in a locked bedroom, and just hope both the individual who was in the process of threatening her husband with robbery at gunpoint in her own home would not actually shoot, no less kill, her husband, and he then would definitely not come to get her? Would the locks on doors in within your home withstand a simple kick or gunfire? Mine certainly would not.
Lastly, are you willing to concede, at all, that firearms are sometimes lawfully employed to save the lives of innocent victims?
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)They are more often used for other purposes, though, sometimes resulting in innocent people getting hurt or killed.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)This should be familiar to you, I hope? It's the party platform.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)Since the 1960s.
branford
(4,462 posts)Guns are hardly unregulated. We have thousands of pages of federal, state and local statutes and other regulations concerning firearms, as well as an entire federal law enforcement agency who's primarily dedicated to regulating guns, the BATFE. Laws like the NFA already make ownership of wide swaths of firearms such as fully automatic or short-barreled weapons prohibitively difficult.
Additionally, I've seen virtually no one here advocating the elimination of any major firearms restrictions, such as prohibitions on ownership by felons or individuals adjudicated as a danger to themselves or others.
Universal background checks also enjoy significant support. If supporters of the law would simply resist the urge to draft such proposed laws as veritable registration lists, and stop attaching them to far less popular gun control legislation like magazine limits, UBC's would probably already be a reality.
The greatest difficulty in passing the platform's restrictions, other than the obvious lack of popular and political support, is that there's no evidence that these measures, short of anything close to an unconstitutional ban, would make any appreciable difference in gun crime. This is not the position of the NRA, but rather the Obama DOJ as recently as January 2013.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/1-kispbj31jpD1LvnFSDevryH2RmVvoLw1slOBZTe-suuy96Qq69nF9BhTmcw/edit
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)So, (to more than a few of them, anyway) we want nothing at all.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)You say "regulated" but you'll push nuisance regulations until you have an effective ban. There is no limit where you would say, "Sorry, but that goes too far."
branford
(4,462 posts)No one is here is stating that firearms are never misused, sometimes resulting in the injury or death of innocents. However, the percentage of people who lawfully own guns under the current system (e.g., not a felon or adjudicated mentally ill, legal purchase, etc.) who are actually responsible for the unjustified (e.g., not self-defense, etc.) injury or death of another person is astonishingly small.
Moreover, those who lawfully own firearms thankfully never need to fire them in defense of any life. Sometimes the presence of a firearms dissuades an assailant without firing a single shot. The other primary purposes those hundreds of millions of guns are used for, are certainly not crime, but rather harmless sport or legal hunting. Among those killed with a firearm, both illegal and legal, about half are suicides, and as Japan proves, there's no evidence that the suicide rate would demonstrably decline with a firearm ban, no less more moderate restriction.
So, let's get back to the original story in the OP and my inquiries.
Based on the facts we know, do you have reason to object to the couple's ownership of their firearms? Do you object to how they were used to defend the husband or wife? Could you offer any statistical guarantees that if the wife hid behind a locked door in the house, as you proposed earlier, that the husband would not have been shot, and the wife would not subsequently be in any danger?
If you concede that firearms can and are used properly at times, that's a starting point for compromise about appropriate levels of gun control that would lower gun crime while still protecting the right of innocents to use firearms for self-defense, sport, hunting or any other relatively peaceful purpose.
I'll start. I personally would support universal background checks, so long as comparable prohibitions against registration lists are in place similar to the NICS system. In fact, I don't see why the NICS could not be available to private sellers. I would also support both classroom and practical training and saefty requirements for most gun ownership, as well as more standardized licensing to carry weapons in public, so long as it was under a "shall issue" regime. Additionally, I'm no fan of open carry as it unnecessarily creates creates confusion concerning the intentions of the carrier among the public. If reasonable exceptions such as permitting the carrying of hunting rifles and shotguns for hunting were in place, and licenses for concealed carry were available as of right, I would support the prohibition of open carry entirely.
samsingh
(17,849 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)they will never have to worry about anything. Life will be all sunshine and show tunes.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Apparently you not only demand people be disarmed but that they must lock themselves in their own homes like prisoners and not answer the door to strangers. What next? Demand people cross the streets when they see anyone who might be questionable?
I don't know why you are so angry with decent people.
ileus
(15,396 posts)Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)don't you think it's more likely they'd just move along and find an easier target instead of trying to kick a door in?
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)And then you'd be victim blaming that house.
Damned nice of you to offer to buy them all that stuff, by the way.
However, that video from Detroit I told you about in another thread. It's video from the homeowner's security camera -- the sort of camera you endorse. It shows 4 criminals trying to kick-in the woman's reinforced door -- the sort of reinforced doors you endorse.
The criminals did not disperse until the woman cut loose with an AR-15 -- the sort of AR-15 I endorse.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)or condo
or even have an asshole HOA (what HOA isn't?) that doesn't allow any such thing? Ultimately, you are going in the "she shouldn't have been wearing that dress" territory.
What it sounds like you are saying that it is OK for your drug connection to have his gun, the cops you like have their guns, but peaceful nonLEOs should not be able to own guns based on a YT video and defending yourself should be a crime.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)Obsessing about guns is a mental illness, imho. I'm going to watch a few episodes of Big Bang Theory (which, if you're unfamiliar, is not about guns) off my pvr soon, so have a nice night.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)My favorite episodes were Sheldon dressed as the Doppler Effect for Halloween and when Penny and Leonard went to a pistol range.
840high
(17,196 posts)friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)Straw Man
(6,744 posts)In what alternate universe do armed home invaders retreat at the sound of gunfire when no gun is visible, there is no shockwave from the muzzle blast, and there is no visible bullet damage? The deception would be pathetically obvious.
Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)and you live in gun infested areas of the US, then it makes sense to keep one in the home for such occasions. My personal choice is not to live in the US and if I have to, then to live in an area where the gun culture does not dominate. The times when I did live in gun happy areas, I kept a 12 gauge handy. When in Rome, do as the Romans.
Which, of course, is why I prefer to live in places like Rome. Each to his own.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)This is also one of the reasons I now use a CZ p-09 as my bedside firearm. 19+1 of 9mm....
It replaced my 8+1 p220.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)A gun, like any other product, has an origin. In this case, a gun manufacturer sold it to a dealer who sold it to someone (legally, of course), and somehow, someway it got into the hands of this "criminal."
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)4300 kids die from under-aged drinking each year. Presumably all that alcohol, like any other product, has an origin. In this case, a alcohol manufacturer sold it to a dealer who sold it to someone (legally, of course), and somehow, someway it got into the hands of the under-aged drinkers.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)"What do these and so many other cases have in common? They are the byproduct of a tragic myth: that millions of gun owners successfully use their firearms to defend themselves and their families from criminals. Despite having nearly no academic support in public health literature, this myth is the single largest motivation behind gun ownership. It traces its origin to a two-decade-old series of surveys that, despite being thoroughly repudiated at the time, persists in influencing personal safety decisions and public policy throughout the United States."
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)And the OP is not some statistical abstraction by your hack; it's real people really defending themselves.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)it's about a paid hack, as proven by gejohnson.
sarisataka
(20,702 posts)of guns bought through the "gun show loophole..." Do you know the source of that number?
It comes from a 1994 survey of 251 people who acquired a gun in the previous two years. 58.8% bought them over the counter at a store. The remaining 40.2% had the following origins- Gun show 3.9% (no that is not a typo), Mail (legal only to FFLs) 2.8%, family member 17.3%, Friend 12.3%, other 3.8%.
So in actuality the "gun show loophole" number is magnified by 10 by including many transfers which likely were done with a background check.
Also it is a sample size ~1/20th the size of Kleck's small survey.
http://www.policefoundation.org/sites/pftest1.drupalgardens.com/files/Cook%20et%20al.%20%281996%29%20-%20Guns%20in%20America.pdf
Bonus info- this report that is the source of that 40% number also covers DGUs. Like the recent CDC report it dismisses both the 2.5 million number as inflated but also notes flaws with the NCVS 108,000 as under counting DGUs by only counting those who report being crime victims and then not including all crime categories reported (specifically some property crime likely to bring a victim into contact with a criminal). This reports "conservative count for our most stringent criteria" is 648,000.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)GGJohn
(9,951 posts)The only devasting thing here is that you still believe that crap despite it being debunked over and over and over.
sarisataka
(20,702 posts)A couple anti-gun bloggers rehashing old claims that didn't withstand their own standard of scrutiny= devastating? ok
I give that article all of the comment it deserves-
hack89
(39,179 posts)7. Guns are used for self-defense often and effectively. Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008, says the report. The three million figure is probably high, based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys. But a much lower estimate of 108,000 also seems fishy, because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use. Furthermore, Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was 'used' by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2013/06
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Painful, huh? I know how important those ancient "studies" are to the whole gun defence thingy myth, how else can you justify the arsenals hoarderd in the basements all through Gunnerland waiting for an attacker....any time now....any time....then the criminal gets it!
hack89
(39,179 posts)Now that you got your wish shouldn't you be paying attention to what they say?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)hack89
(39,179 posts)The NRA was blocking the CDC from studying guns. The CDC now has the power to studying guns despite what the NRA wants. Shouldn't you be happy that happened? Why are you now ignoring the CDC? Didn't get the answer you expected?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)"But today the CDC still avoids gun-violence research, demonstrating what many see as the depth of its fear about returning to one of the countrys most divisive debates. The agency recently was asked by The Washington Post why it was still sitting on the sidelines of firearms studies. It declined to make an official available for an interview but responded with a statement noting it had commissioned an agenda of possible research goals but still lacked the dedicated funding to pursue it."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2015/01/14/why-the-cdc-still-isnt-researching-gun-violence-despite-the-ban-being-lifted-two-years-ago/
hack89
(39,179 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,553 posts)One refusal to answer, maybe a mistake;
...two refusals to answer, shame on them;
...three refusals to answer, shame on me.
How's your head feeling?
branford
(4,462 posts)The funding for the CDC was originally cut because they were engaging in gun control advocacy, rather than scholarly research. The CDC issue hardly stopped actual research concerning all aspects of firearms throughout the government and private sectors.
If you want to cite government research, how about studies from National Institute of Justice, at the U.S. Department Of Justice, as recently as January 2013.
All the NIJ does is study and report on justice and related matters. They are generally nonpartisan number crunchers and academics, who if anything tend to lean liberal. I should know, I worked there prior to law school (my research was alternatives to incarceration and disparities in arrest and sentencing of minorities).
The memo does not exactly support most of the positions and proposed legislation from gun control advocates.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/1-kispbj31jpD1LvnFSDevryH2RmVvoLw1slOBZTe-suuy96Qq69nF9BhTmcw/edit
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)VIOLENCE
Committee on Priorities for a Public Health Research Agenda to Reduce
the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence
Executive Office
Institute of Medicine
Committee on Law and Justice
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Alan I. Leshner, Bruce M. Altevogt, Arlene F. Lee, Margaret A. McCoy,
and Patrick W. Kelley, Editors
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE AND
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
(page 2, emphasis added)
NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.
This project was supported by awards between the National Academy of Sciences and both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (#200-2011-38807) and the CDC Foundation with the Foundations support originating from The Annie E. Casey Foundation, The California Endowment, The California Wellness Foundation, The Joyce Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and one anonymous donor. The views presented in this publication are those of the editors and attributing authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the organizations or agencies that provided support for this project
samsingh
(17,849 posts)friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024527951#post5
http://www.democraticunderground.com/117263352
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x460088
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x196856#196923
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=118&topic_id=128303
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