{"id":120943,"date":"2021-12-24T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=120943"},"modified":"2021-12-24T13:06:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T18:06:35","slug":"friday-fgs-113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=120943","title":{"rendered":"Friday FGS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIdeal Conceal Smartphone Pistol<\/a><\/p>\n

These 12 Incidents of Defensive Gun Use Prove Armed Civilians Make Situations Safer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amy Swearer
\nI testified earlier this month at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Chicago on underlying causes of the spikes in gun violence in that city and around the country.<\/p>\n

Although Sen. Dick Durbin\u2019s interruptions of my opening statement stole the show in many respects, it shouldn\u2019t be overlooked that the Illinois Democrat also solicited disparaging remarks on the right to keep and bear arms from another witness\u2014Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown.<\/p>\n

In direct response to one of Durbin\u2019s questions, Brown remarked that armed civilians make police officers\u2019 jobs more difficult, and that he never has seen a lawfully armed civilian make a situation safer.<\/p>\n

This was certainly disappointing and should not take away from Brown\u2019s important points with respect to underlying problems of prosecutorial leniency and anti-police sentiment that devastates police morale.<\/p>\n

But Brown also is quite mistaken about the reality of defensive uses of firearms. Americans\u2014including those residing in Chicago\u2014routinely use their guns to defend themselves and others from crime, rendering themselves and their communities safer from violence.<\/p>\n

Almost every major study on the issue has found that Americans use their firearms in self-defense between 500,000 and 3 million times annually, according to a 2013 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n

For this reason, The Daily Signal each month publishes an article highlighting some of the previous month\u2019s many news stories on defensive gun use that you may have missed\u2014or that might not have made it to the national spotlight in the first place. (Read other accounts here from 2019, 2020, and so far this year.)<\/p>\n

The examples below represent only a small portion of the news stories on defensive gun use that we found in November. You may explore more by using The Heritage Foundation\u2019s interactive Defensive Gun Use Database. (The Daily Signal is the multimedia news organization of The Heritage Foundation.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Defensive Gun Use Data Base is in the article below.
\nDaily Signal<\/a><\/p>\n

Jury Acquits Man In Shooting Outside Of Long John Silvers
\nDecember 23, 2021 at 3:14 am<\/strong><\/p>\n

SOUTH UNION TOWNSHIP (KDKA) \u2013 A suspect in a road rage incident that ended in shots fired was on trial this past week.<\/p>\n

Jurors acquitted Justin Rittacco in the killing of Robert Lukehart in May 2020.<\/p>\n

The whole incident began as a case of road rage along Route 857.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No Score
\nPittsburgh CBS Local<\/a>
\nThat’s one dedicated jury.<\/p>\n

When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun. \u2014 Laura Ingalls Wilde<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I am smiling, fucko.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Happy wrapping! Unfolding that pocket rocket’s handles would have to be done very carefully the first, ahh, should have saved this one for 1 Apr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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