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Cases where CCW holders have stopped likely mass public shootings
- BMc2020 4y agoTL: DR; several dozen since 2001.
- bediger4000 4y agoGiven that there have been hundreds of mass shootings a year, can I safely assume CCW has no real effect?
- cratermoon 4y agoThe site, crimeresearch.org, is run by the Crime Prevention Research Center, (CPRC). The CPRC was founded by Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. John Lott created a fake persona, "Mary Rosh", to review his own work[1]. Lott's research has been repeatedly debunked[2], and there are credible arguments that he's an academic fraud[3] 1 https://reason.com/2003/05/01/the-mystery-of-mary-rosh-2/ https://reason.com/2003/05/01/the-mystery-of-mary-rosh-2/ 2 https://www.armedwithreason.com/shooting-down-the-gun-lobbys-favorite-academic-a-lott-of-lies/ https://www.armedwithreason.com/shooting-down-the-gun-lobbys... 3 https://archive.thinkprogress.org/debunking-john-lott-5456e83cf326/ https://archive.thinkprogress.org/debunking-john-lott-5456e8...
- nhchris 4y agoEvery case in this article is backed by a citation to a mainstream news article, so we don't have to rely on guilt by association to determine its credibility.
- cratermoon 4y ago"Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal" https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-threats-and-self-defense-gun-use-2/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-thr...
- JoeyBananas 4y agoNot a convincing quote at all if you look into the actual study. https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/6/4/263 https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/6/4/263 These results have a lot of room for interpretation.
- JoeyBananas 4y agoPretty hard to argue with this article because it's just a list of specific examples
- nhchris 4y agoWhy count only mass shootings?
- ggm 4y agoBecause of the CCW single gun fatal outcome incident stats.