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Lott on defensive gun uses

Posted by David Hardy · 8 May 2022 11:12 AM

John Lott has a study of press-reported defensive gun uses. (In my experience, defensive uses are very rarely reported in the press). I especially like this story:

"Young yelled at the deputies and then fired on them. The first deputy was hit in the head and dropped to the ground.

The second deputy stepped forward and returned fire in an effort to protect the deputy who had already been shot...

Police said that was when good Samaritans armed with their own weapons stepped forward and fired multiple shots in the direction of Young to provide cover for and protect the wounded deputies, the Bellingham Herald reported.

The good Samaritans told KING that they were military veterans and they weren't going to sit still and watch law enforcement officers be murdered so they took their children inside their homes and came back out with their own guns...

The sheriff wrote that ... "Second, we are extraordinarily blessed that several armed citizens came to the deputies' assistance at the critical moments when they were most vulnerable....""

3 Comments | Leave a comment

Pete | May 9, 2022 2:48 PM | Reply

It angers me a bit when they point out the gun was registered, one wonders how many times an otherwise law abiding citizen would not step in for fear of prosecution for an unlicensed firearm.

Old Jarhead | May 10, 2022 9:13 PM | Reply

We'll never know.
Maybe, knowing the cops would seize the gun, they stepped back inside to put the unregistered gun away and get the "legal" gun.

CDR D | May 11, 2022 9:21 AM | Reply

So far as I know, it is not illegal to own an unregistered gun in California. All handguns sold through a dealer since about 1992, and all long guns thus sold since 2012(?) are automatically registered. No private sales are allowed unless processed by a licensed dealer. To the best of my knowledge there is no retroactive registration requirement for older guns acquired decades ago. Someone please correct me if that is wrong.

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