The FBI Is Undercounting Firearm Self-Defense Incidents
Do you carry a gun?
Bad idea, says Hollywood. Civilians with guns are fools. You are more likely to hurt yourself than the bad guy.
“Leave it to a good guy with a gun to really screw things up,” says a cop on ABC’s The Rookie.
Liberal politicians agree.
“A good guy with a gun will stop bad guys with a gun?! It doesn’t hold up,” smiles New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
“An adolescent rescue fantasy,” adds an “expert” on CBS.
Now, I’m not a gun person. I was raised among lefty gun haters. I assumed Hollywood and “experts” were right.
When I saw economist John Lott’s book, More Guns, Less Crime, I rolled my eyes. But now I understand that Lott makes a good point.
“A couple million times a year, people use guns defensively,” he says in my new video. “When a civilian tries to stop one of these instances, they’re overwhelmingly successful.”
But FBI reports say self-defense with guns is rare.
“They’re simply missing a huge number of cases,” says Lott. He’s posted a list of cases the FBI ignored, where civilians stopped shooters.
The FBI lists the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. Forty-nine people were killed.
“One week afterwards,” says Lott, “there was a similar attack at a nightclub in South Carolina.”
But there, a civilian shot the attacker.
“Still had 125 rounds of ammunition on him when he was stopped!” says Lott.
Somehow, the FBI missed that case, along with so many others.
When 17 people were killed at Parkland, Florida, that got lots of news coverage.
Few people know that “just a few months later in Titusville, Florida, [at] an elementary school,” says Lott, “a man came up, started firing his gun. Fortunately, a
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