The other day I read a story about a person with a concealed carry permit shooting someone who was attempting to rob a store while brandishing a hatchet.

In a very short time, instead of the story being treated for what it was, someone doing what they could to save the cashier who was being attacked, comments after the news reports on the internet became a “discussion” of the justification for people to have guns and why those who oppose the proliferation of guns are just wrong.

Here was evidence, this one incident, to explain why there is no need for any type of gun control.

But one incident does not cancel the many more that speak to the opposite.

When I looked up good guys with guns stopping bad guys with them, I found that since 2007 there have been 11 times that this has happened. That’s 11 times in 10 years.

One per year.

In 2016 alone, there have been 10,008 gun related incidents of which 2,533 resulted in death and 5,111 in injuries.

That’s 10,008 in the first 21/2 months of this year.

Among the shootings have been the shooting of 111 kids under 12 years old and 582 kids between ages 12 and 17 killed, 49 mass shootings, 510 accidental shootings, 442 shootings related to home invasions (some actually being a peon knocking on a door to ask to use a phone or get directions), and 952 officer related shootings.

Out of the overall figure of 10,008, which includes my above mentioned limited list of 2,626, only 299 were defensive.

That means only 11% of my list and only 0.029% of the overall figure.
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Let me just say from the outset that I don’t have a problem with a person carrying concealed who has gone through a background check and has taken qualifying gun training classes because, although that may not guarantee it, it does imply some degree of responsibility.

Also, I am not made to feel as uncomfortable in a store or on the street as I do when someone I do not know, and whose mental state is an unknown is walking down the street carrying a multi-clip rifle.

After all, in this recent store case, it took one bullet from a gun and not strafing the store ro stop the robber.

And then you have this:

The Oklahoma state House of Representatives passed an extremely lenient gun bill by a vote of 73-15 that would require a person who wishes to get a concealed carry license to get registered and go to some training class, but a person who wants to carry a gun out in the open would not have to go through any training or get a permit.

Although a background check is required when purchasing a gun from a store so that only individuals who are legally able to own a weapon, are not felons, and are over the age of 21 are allowed to purchase one, people in that state will be able to avoid this requirement by purchasing at a gun show where they don’t do background checks.

So when you are visiting there and you pass by Lucas McCain walking down the street carrying a rifle, you just can’t assume he is stable enough to pass the requirement of a background check or has any training in the proper use of that weapon because he may have just gone to a gun show and purchased whatever number of guns he may be carrying.

One of the objections to background checks is that criminals would find a way to purchase a gun without having to pass one, and here we have a state legislature that has played along with that and is willing to let criminals go to gun shows to avoid background checks, permits, and training.

A further question would also be whether or not one man’s definition of defensive is the same as another’s.

And you might want to know what actions such a person would consider offensive.

The mind boggles.