Irresponsible Gun Owner Shoots Friend, News Tells How Bad A Good Guy With A Gun Can Be

By CN Staff

By Robert Farago via TTAG

Long story short, Alexis Bukrym (above) shot her “pranking” roommate Anthony Schwartz, mistaking him for a lethal threat. Our good friends at The Trace, doing what they’re paid so handsomely to do, wave the bloody flag on Ms. Bukrym’s behalf, exploiting the tragedy as proof — proof! — that armed self-defense is a bad, bad thing . . .

Good guys with guns don’t only shoot bad guys with guns. In the sudden, blurry, urgent split seconds when a threat bursts into view, the impulse to pull the trigger canoverwhelm the need to accurately identify the target, leading to snap decisions that bring permanent tragedies.

True story! As The Trace is quick to point out, Ms. Bukrym isn’t alone in shooting someone to death by mistake.

Since 2015, at least 47 Americans have shot friends, loved ones, roommates, or emergency responders they said they’d mistaken for home intruders, killing 15, according to an analysis of gun violence incidents by BuzzFeed News and The Trace. In at least 27 of those cases, criminal charges were dismissed or never filed because authorities deemed the shootings accidental, an act of self-defense …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation