Americans have frequently used legal guns to thwart crimes, defend themselves or their homes and even stop mass shootings. Some estimates suggest instances of firearms being used in self-defense stretch into the millions yearly. Having a gun is by far the safest course of action when people are facing a criminal by themselves. Constitutional Carry makes society safer.
One-half of the states in our union have now adopted Constitutional Carry legislation.
Most of the concealed carry laws in the country require citizens to first get permits.
But in 25 states, citizens can carry a firearm without getting permission . . . without paying a fee . . . or without going through any kind of government-imposed waiting period.
There are many reasons for a state to adopt a permitless carry law. Here are a couple.
1. Carrying a firearm is a “right,” not a “privilege”
The Second Amendment guarantees that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” This means that law-abiding citizens should not
need to beg the government for permission to carry a firearm. That would turn the “right” to bear arms into a mere “privilege.” Likewise, people should not have to be photographed, fingerprinted, or registered before they can exercise their Second Amendment rights. Criminals certainly do not jump through these “hoops.”
The Second Amendment is no different than any of the other protections enumerated in the Bill of Rights. That is, honest citizens should not need a government-issued permission slip; rather, they should be able to carry as a matter of right.
2. More Guns, Less Crime
Concealed carry in general has been very successful in the United States. The Crime Prevention Research Center reports that, while concealed carry permits tripled during the first seven years of Obama’s presidency, the murder rate dropped 16% during that same period.
This means there are millions of additional people carrying firearms outside of their homes, even as the murder rate has dropped. We are actually safer today.
Concealed carry holders are the safest segment of our society, as they commit crimes at a lower rate than police or the average member of the public. This positive record carries over especially in Constitutional Carry states. They are some of the safest states in the country. Just look at Maine and Vermont, with their low crime rates. In fact, Vermont has been a Constitutional Carry state since the beginning of our republic, and it is frequently ranked as the Safest State in the Union.
This is not an aberration. West Virginia enacted permitless carry in 2016. A half year later, law enforcement says they have “not noticed an increase in gun violence since the law went into effect six months ago.” Likewise, Alaska enacted Constitutional Carry in 2003; Arizona followed in 2010. Both states saw their murder rates decline by 30% in the first five years. (3)
No wonder that over 90% of police nationwide support the principle of concealed carry for law-abiding citizens. And law enforcement in states like Idaho and Maine have stated their public support for Constitutional Carry.
The Media Does Not Want You to Know
When a search is done of a crime where an armed citizen stopped the crime from continuing, it rarely notes that the citizen was armed. Gun crimes grab most media attention, while gun use in self-defense gets merely a fraction. The liberal media does not want you to know about armed "good Samaritans" because they hate the 2nd Amendment and want your lives to be controlled by the government. In the recent kidnapping attempt in Germantown, Tennessee where published video clearly shows an armed citizen thwart the kidnapping, it is not mentioned in the local and liberal media that the citizen was armed. They simply say, "a bystander confronted the suspects..."
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Americans have frequently used legal guns to thwart crimes, defend themselves or their homes and even stop mass shootings. Some estimates suggest instances of firearms being used in self-defense stretch into the millions yearly.
"Having a gun is by far the safest course of action when people are facing a criminal by themselves," Dr. John Lott, an economist and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told Fox News Digital earlier this year.
Lott believes that the media has dramatically undercounted the amount of times Americans use guns in self-defense, saying in a typical year there are only about 2,000 news stories about defensive use of guns. That number is more likely to stretch into the millions, Lott said, pointing to an average of 18 national surveys that estimated guns are used in self-defense about 2 million times per year.
Proof is in the Pudding
"The vast majority of successful self-defense cases don’t make the news," Lott said.
With that trend continuing into 2022, here are just five recent cases in which armed citizens were able to defend themselves and others this year.
A San Antonio homeowner defended several adults and multiple small children in his home in December by confronting an intruder with his handgun.
A Louisiana mom and Air Force veteran was sitting in gridlocked traffic on the interstate with her 2-year-old son in February when an intruder attempted to enter her vehicle, prompting her to pull out a gun.
An armed Florida man stepped up to defend a pregnant woman who was being assaulted by the father of her unborn child in a Publix parking lot.
A Chandler, Arizona, man was called a "good Samaritan" by police after he halted a shooting in the parking lot of an Amazon facility and likely prevented further bloodshed.
An armed Indiana man was at the Greenwood Park Mall with his girlfriend in July when 20-year-old Jonathan Sapirman entered the mall with multiple semi-automatic rifles, a pistol and over 100 rounds of ammunition and began opening fire on patrons in the food court. Sapirman was able to fatally shoot three people and injure two others before he was confronted by 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken, who was legally carrying a pistol under Indiana's new permitless-carry law. Dicken approached the gunman from a distance of 40 yards and fired 10 rounds at Sapirman, striking him eight times and ultimately killing him.
By Admin with contributions from Fox News and The Daily Mail
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