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Originally Posted by Number 10 GI
A google search will find hours of reading and watching videos of news reports where an armed citizen saved their life or another person's. Many times, just the brandishing of a weapon to a thug wanting to victimize a person has prevented the assault.
The NRA magazine every month lists 6 or so news reports of an armed good guy stopping a criminal act. The source for the article is also provided so it can be independently verified.
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True words.
Back in Minnesota, when permit-to-carry first went into effect nearly 20 years ago now, the doom-and-gloomers were predicting dead bodies on the streets so thick that they'd have to pick 'em up with a front-end loader. Didn't happen, of course. But a couple of other interesting things did. For example, a lot of the people opposing permit-to-carry, if they were business owners, put up those signs NO GUNS ALLOWED ON THESE PREMISES. The signs came down right quick when it became glaringly apparent that those were the businesses being targeted by the crooks and stickup artists.
The bad guys just don't like their targets shooting back.