Originally Posted by Aloha1 (Post 1964255)

:popcorn:
Having some popcorn waiting to see which of the "usual suspects" will cause this thread to be closed. Any bets?

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 1963165)

I read that the FBI avoids making crime statistics BY RACE.

Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 1964258)

Some of them seem to have gone missing for the past day or so...

Maybe a "time-out" was given?

Originally Posted by Number 10 GI (Post 1964035)

In the American Rifleman, a magazine I receive for being an NRA member, publishes every month a list of 6 - 8 articles from city newspapers citing incidents where legally armed citizens using their firearm to protect themselves and others from criminals. All you have to do is go to the newspaper cited as the source to verify it is true. It is estimated that armed American legally use their personal firearm to stop a crime over 2 millions times a year. This doesn't mean they shot someone to stop the crime. In many cases, just the simple brandishing of the firearm caused the criminal to stop and go elsewhere and find an easier target.
The only reason you don't hear about legally armed citizens thwarting a criminal act is that it doesn't meet the "If it bleeds it leads" mentality of our sorry excuse for journalists. Plus it goes against the media's anti-gun propaganda, can't have a positive story about gun ownership.

Originally Posted by Aloha1 (Post 1964611)

One can only hope.

Originally Posted by marksaint (Post 1964582)

One of the sites that provides this type of info on Large Metro Areas, ie., (Chicago) is and this is the correct web address
"HeyJackass.com "
Statistical data back to I think 2015.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 1964059)

I'm not a gun fan. I'm personally against firearms. All of them. I'm absolutely anti-NRA as it exists today.

But if I ever read a story in a mainstream newspaper, or on mainstream TV, about a citizen in Las Vegas carrying her weapon legally, and managing to successfully prevent the mass shooter by getting him first square in the middle of his forehead, I would be VERY happy to have read it. I would have joined in the masses hailing her as a hero.

That didn't happen though.

It also didn't happen at the Pulse nightclub. Or in Newtown CT. Or at Stoneman Douglas High. Or Rockford IL, Tampa FL, Boynton Beach FL, Atkins, Arkansas, Chicago, Venus, TX, or any of the other dozens of shootings involving more than one victim in a public location around the country in the past few years.

Rapid-fire weapons exist to harm as many people as possible in the shortest period of time. That is why they were invented, why they are marketed, why they exist. Sure lots of people just use them for target shooting at the range. But that's not what they're for.

And no one has successfully stopped a mass shooter from shooting masses with rapid-fire weapons - and in fact, no one has even TRIED to shoot a mass shooter while the mass shooter was actively shooting people...

If someone had stepped up, it would've made national news.

Threatening Jimbob from stealing yer beer at the redneck rave isn't newsworthy (unless Jimbob's throat gets slit or his mom gets impaled on a log, which actually happened this week).

Originally Posted by Get real (Post 1964585)

They don't...but they should. Race is not the issue. Class is the issue. Race baiting is a for profit industry for politicians and hustlers.