Posted January 13, 2016 2:03 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

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Can a concealed carrying “good guy with a gun” defeat a “bad guy” armed with a semi-automatic rifle and wearing body armor?

We are often compelled to address news media outlets that routinely lie or distort about the role of guns in American society, and so it is very refreshing for me to bring you an honest and compelling experiment conducted by Dallas-Forth Worth ABC News affiliate WFFA, who were interested to see if NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre was correct when he said that, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”

WFAA enlisted the help of Travis Bond of DFW Shooters Academy to test whether average concealed carriers could stop an active shooter in a number of different scenarios.

He in turn recruited four “good guys” with varying levels of experience. The least experienced shooter had just the six hours of training. The next most experienced shooter had ten hours. The third shooter had 25 hours of training, and the fourth, 50 hours of training. While it wasn’t stipulated in the video, we’re guessing that the shooters recruited by Bond were likely students in DFW Shooters …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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