As MaddMedic points out, not everything about 2013 has been doom and gloom:
What have we learned in the past year?
If there’s bad news to share, it’s that Congress hasn’t fixed the underlying problems which turn many areas of our nation into soft targets for criminals.
Our schools are still gun free zones … military personnel still can’t carry firearms at work … and it’s just a matter of time before another determined psycho steals a gun and goes on a rampage in a gun free zone.
But if there’s good news, it’s that the truth is winning out — and we are seeing this in many ways:
1. Good guys with guns are saving lives.
One week prior to the Newtown tragedy last December, a concealed carry permit holder stopped the shooter at the Clackamas Mall in Oregon. While the killer had stolen an AR-15, he was stopped when Nick Meli pointed his gun at him. (The killer then retreated and took his own life.)
Universal background checks would have done NOTHING to stop either killer in Oregon or Connecticut. Both men stole their weapons. The only difference — the key difference — is that, in Oregon, there was a good guy with a gun!
2. CDC confirms that guns save lives.
After being commissioned by the President to study “gun violence” earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control found that guns are used more often to save life than to kill, “with estimates of annual [defensive gun] uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year.” (June 2013)
Because there are roughly 30,000 gun deaths every year (by murder, suicide and accident), this means that guns are used in this country anywhere from 16-to-100 times for often in self-defense.
3. Police agree that guns save lives.
A poll of more than 15,000 police officers this year showed that the rank-and-file cop on the beat is EXTREMELY pro-gun:
* 80% feel that legally-armed citizens would likely have reduced the number of casualties in recent mass shootings; and
* 81.3% support arming teachers and/or school administrators who volunteer to carry at their schools. (March 2013)
4. States eliminating gun free zones.
While some states jerked to the left this year after the Sandy Hook shooting, there were many states that took the opportunity to pursue freedom. For example, several states:
* Repealed gun free zones in restaurants (that serve alcohol), in churches, and other places that drive the gun grabbers crazy;
* Began authorizing teachers in several school districts to carry guns for the protection of students; and,
* Took steps to nullify federal laws within the state (specifically, Alaska and Kansas).
Fox News reported today that, since Newtown, almost twice as many pro-gun laws that loosen restrictions on guns — as compared to toughening them — have been enacted in states across the nation.
5. Gun control kills … political careers.
Seizing the opportunity to eviscerate the Second Amendment, Colorado passed a series of gun control restrictions this Spring.
But the resulting recall of two anti-gun state senators — and the forced retirement of a third — has sent chills down the collective spine of gun grabbers across the country:
“What happened in Colorado should send shock waves through every legislator’s heart that’s been supportive of gun control.” That’s what GOA’s Erich Pratt told Reuters on Wednesday.
But we’re not the only one making this point. The liberal newspaper in the nation’s capital, The Hill, ran a headline on that same day which blared: “One year after Newtown killings, gun control proponents feel dejected.”
Source: http://maddmedic.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/goa-good-news-just-one-year-after-sandy-hook/
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