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How Would Concealed Carriers do in an Active Shooter Situation? News Station Puts Them to the Test


waving flagPosted on January 13, 2016 by Philip Hodges

URL of the original posting site: http://lastresistance.com/15713/how-would-concealed-carriers-do-in-an-active-shooter-situation-news-station-puts-them-to-the-test/#CUsHHtCTs2OKQuC9.99

We’ve all heard liberals say that no gun carrier has ever prevented a mass shooting. If there had been a concealed carrier in the Aurora theater, liberals insist that there would have been no way for him to take out the murderer James Holmes. Same thing at Sandy Hook, and every other mass shooting. In fact, having concealed carriers in those situations would only make things more dangerous for everyone else. Besides, the studies show that concealed carriers’ guns are always used against them by the bad guys. Or, so they say.

But we all say that the more law-abiding concealed carriers there are out there, the better chances we have to prevent mass shootings from being carried out. There really isn’t any way to determine whether a mass shooting would have happened if someone takes out the shooter. Imagine if a guy walked into an office wielding an AK-47, fired a few warning shots, and right before he started mowing people down, a concealed carrier shot and killed the guy. If that were to happen, no liberal would ever admit that the carrier prevented a mass shooting. In fact, they’d probably argue that the office employee acted rashly and recklessly and put everyone else’s lives in danger.

A news station put those with concealed carry licenses to the test to see how they would fare in active shooter scenarios:

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Ironically, those with the most training didn’t do very well. But they still hit their target, which is better than not doing anything.

I think these sorts of tests are good training exercises, but all the participants were anticipating an active shooter. Everyone was expecting it, so it wasn’t very representative of reality. However, this is how you train. If something like this were to happen in reality, these carriers would be more adequately prepared.

In spite of the experience disparity between the “bad guy” – a SWAT team member and tactical instructor with 22 years of experience – and four civilian “good guys” with concealed carry licenses whose experience ranged from about six hours of training to 50 hours of training, I’d say they all fared pretty well. The rules were that in order for the bad guy to be taken out, he had to be shot in the head, neck or pelvis. The whole test was stacked against the good guys, and they were all able to at least hit the bad guy. In a real situation, even if the shooter had body armor, if he were shot in the chest, it would definitely affect him. Check out this video of a man getting shot with a bulletproof vest on:

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People who have been shot with bulletproof vests describe it as getting hit with a baseball bat and getting the wind knocked out of you. Imagine if the active shooter got shot multiple times in the chest even while wearing a vest. It would knock him down, which would make it easier for the concealed carrier to shoot elsewhere.

H/T:  The Blaze

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Ann Coulter Letter: “Hispanics Wouldn’t Vote GOP If You Held a Gun To Their Heads”


waving flagAuthored by  Ann Coulter  | Wednesday Oct 14, 2015

URL of the original posting site: http://humanevents.com/2015/10/14/hispanics-wouldnt-vote-gop-if-you-held-a-gun-to-their-heads/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Hispanics Wouldn't Vote GOP If You Held a Gun To Their Heads

At the Democratic debate on Tuesday night, Sen. Bernie Sanders bragged about getting a “D-minus” from the National Rifle Association (which was also Lincoln Chafee’s GPA in high school). 

Nonetheless, Hillary Clinton attacked Sanders for having voted against an insane bill that would have held gun manufacturers and sellers legally liable for the behavior of anyone who uses one of their guns in a crime. 

I would be open to such a law — but only after we pass a law holding psychiatrists liable for crimes committed by their patients; lawyers for crimes committed by their clients; and sanctuary cities for crimes committed by the illegal immigrants they released in violation of federal law. AMEN

Gun dealers are a lot more careful about whom they sell guns to than psychiatrists, lawyers and sanctuary cities are about the criminals they loose on the public. 

In several recent mass shootings, the psycho was at least temporarily delayed when gun shops refused to sell him guns — such as the Colorado gun range owner who put his whole staff on red alert in case James Holmes ever wandered in, simply on the basis of having heard Holmes’ strange voicemail message. 

As Sanders himself once said, holding gun sellers liable for the crimes of their customers would be like holding “a hammer company responsible if somebody beats somebody over the head with a hammer.” (As happened to Lincoln Chafee.) 

To cheers from the Democratic audience, Hillary denounced Sanders for his vote against imposing unprecedented liability on gun makers, saying, “It’s time the entire country stood up against the NRA.” Sanders bowed and scraped, finally saying he’d “take another look” at the gun bill. 

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley bragged about passing the strictest gun-control laws in the country (which explains why Baltimore is such a safe city). Asked which “enemy” he was proudest of, O’Malley said: “The NRA.” (Loud applause — especially from the radical Muslims in the audience!) 

I gather Democrats have written off the gun vote. 

Plenty of Democrats own firearms — or at least have armed bodyguards, such as Rosie O’Donnell, Jim Carrey, Michael Moore and Michael Bloomberg. But Democrats have made a calculated decision that they are not going to win a majority of gun owners, so they denounce them with abandon, making no concessions at all. 

Why don’t Republicans do that with the Hispanic vote? Somehow, the left has convinced the GOP to obsess over winning people who will never give us a majority of their votes, which is the exact opposite of the Democrats’ strategy for themselves. 

I would wager that Democrats get more votes from NRA members than Republicans do from La Raza members (0). But try to imagine a Republican answering the “enemies” question: “La Raza.” 

Republicans don’t need to treat Hispanics with the contempt that Democrats treat gun-owners. We do not dislike Hispanics. We do not dislike any group. We just have to protect Americans first — American jobs, American taxes and American social programs being bankrupted by immigrants. Most voters don’t think it’s an outrageous imposition to ask people to obey our laws. 

Donald Trump opened his campaign talking about Mexican rapists, pledged to build a wall and deport illegals — and has soared to the top of the polls. The massive Hispanic blowback consists of this: Trump is getting about the same percentage of the Hispanic vote as Romney did. 

I have no doubt that the 73 percent of Hispanics who will be voting against Trump are prepared to be much angrier about it than the 73 percent who voted against Romney. But the result won’t look any different on election night. Voting machines don’t register angry glints in people’s eyes. 

On the other hand, by driving up the white vote — to say nothing of the black vote — we will see a difference in the Republicans’ box score on election night. 

The Holy Grail year for Republicans is supposed to be 2004, when President Bush won a record-breaking 40 percent of the Hispanic vote. He had to turn his entire White House into a Hispandering operation to do that – and he still lost the Hispanic vote. 

It’s crazy to deform our whole platform in pursuit of some group that won’t give us at least 51 percent of its vote, anyway. The Democrats ignore white voters and they were 73.7 percent of the electorate in 2012. Hispanics were only 8.4 percent that year. 

I haven’t seen an estimate of the electoral percentage of gun-owners, but with one-third to half of all Americans owning guns, it’s a lot more than 8.4 percent. 

Democrats know not to expend any effort on constituencies they can’t win, but have buffaloed Republicans into wasting resources on a quixotic bid to win a slightly larger — but still losing — percentage of the 8.4 percent of the electorate that is the Hispanic vote. 

You’ve been conned, GOP. You are never going to beat the Democrats at sucking up to foreigners. And your conservative base will flee. 

The GOP should expend precisely as much effort fawning over the Hispanic vote as Democrats do over the gun vote, the pro-life vote and the white vote. Republicans have got to stop believing The New York Times line that the only honorable votes are from minorities. It’s honorable to get votes from taxpayers, too. 

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OKLAHOMA FOLDS UNDER PRESSURE


Hard to believe, but Oklahoma has followed the idiot newspaper up in New York and released a map of the location of all its gun owners.

Their locations are marked by red dots on the map below:

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Thoughts For the Day


These two short sentences tell you a lot about our government and our culture:

  1. We are advised to not judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL Gun Owners by the actions of a few lunatics.  Funny how that works.

  2. Another one worth considering: Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money. How come we never hear about Welfare running out of money?

    1. What’s interesting is the first group “worked for” their money, but the second didn’t.

Profound isn’t it…Think about it…..Pass it on.

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