Washington Post Lists Mass Shootings Stopped By Armed Citizens

By Tim

It seems that the general public is looking to disprove Obama and his dismissal of armed response to active shooters. The hot topic of the day is, “has anyone armed ever stopped a mass shooting from happening?”. While statistics will never give the entire view of what could have happened, there are multiple reports of mass shootings being stopped by law abiding citizens as reported by the Washington Post:

1. In Chicago earlier this year, an Uber driver with a concealed-carry permit “shot and wounded a gunman [Everardo Custodio] who opened fire on a crowd of people.”

2. In a Philadelphia barber shop earlier this year, Warren Edwards “opened fire on customers and barbers” after an argument. Another man with a concealed-carry permit then shot the shooter; of course it’s impossible to tell whether the shooter would have kept killing if he hadn’t been stopped, but a police captain was quoted as saying that, “I guess he [the man who shot the shooter] saved a lot of people in there.”

3. In a hospital near Philadelphia, in 2014, Richard Plotts shot and killed the psychiatric caseworker with whom he was meeting, and shot and …Read the Rest

Source:: GunsNFreedom