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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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People who are able to defend themselves against armed criminals continue to save lives and protect property in America and throughout the world.
During the past year, besieged Israel has seen a 75 percent increase in requests for weapons permits, American Enterprise reports.
On Feb. 22, an Israeli woman in a supermarket saw an Arab who was about to set off an explosive device. She drew her pistol and shot him in the head, saving many lives.
Two nuns in violence-torn Colombia shot and killed a robber several years ago.
In the United States, within the past few years:
An elderly woman was confronted by an armed intruder in her home. Her 11-year-old grandson got her pistol and dispatched the gunman, with one shot.
A criminal stormed into a Kentucky prosecutor's home and shot him to death, but not before the victim got off fatal shots that may have saved the lives of his wife and children.
A cab driver shot and killed a criminal who was holding a knife to his throat demanding money. The cabbie victim was arrested for having a gun, but a rational judge threw out the case.
In Jacksonville, a shotgun-toting robber threatening a waitress was shot when not one but two patrons stood up and began shooting at him.
Often, armed victims are able to capture the criminal instead of shooting him. The most recent case was when a student opened fire on the campus of a law school in West Virginia.
These are not isolated incidents, as research by Florida State University Professor Gary Kleck has shown. They happen every day.
Kleck's work has been challenged, but the late Marvin Wolfgang, a prominent criminologist who described himself "as strong a gun-control advocate as can be found among the criminologists in this country" said he found it hard to challenge Kleck's data or methodology.
"We do not have contrary evidence," he conceded.
Perhaps the poster child for self-defense is Texas state Rep. Suzanna Hupp. In 1991, she was in a fast-food restaurant with her elderly parents. A crazed gunman came in and began shooting, eventually killing 23 people, including Hupp's parents. Hupp had a gun, and might have stopped the gunman when he was reloading, but her weapon was locked in her car because it was illegal then to carry one.
Subsequently, she turned Republican, won a "safe Democratic" seat and was largely responsible for passing a concealed-carry law. She wears her gun on the floor of the Texas House.
Gun control disarms victims, not criminals.
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878