Good Guy vs. Bad Guy

[Speedo66]

This article in the NY Times comments about how bad guys with guns are stopped, based upon data from a college project. Stats as you know can be biased, but here's what they came up with: most often it's by the police, some stopped on their own, some by suicide, some by bystanders physically, but also by good guys with guns.

The article tries to make light of the amount of good guy stops, it's the NY Times after all, but even so, it was almost 10%, which I think is a significant number.

Here's the article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/22/us/shootings-police-response-uvalde-buffalo.html

 

[unclenunzie]

I read the same article, and of course it is agenda driven even if/being factual. What they don't include (and maybe they can't, but surely wouldn't) are the stops of ordinary criminal activity via DGU. Personally I'm more concerned about family and self protection from ordinary criminal activity (which I can prepare for) than these cases of madness (which I can't).

 

[AlexanderA]

I hate the "good guy / bad guy" terminology. First of all, "good" and "bad" are value judgements. (For example, one person's "terrorist" may be another person's "freedom fighter.") And secondly, someone can go from "good guy" to "bad guy" in an instant. These categories are not immutable.

 

[stillquietvoice]

This article in the NY Times comments about how bad guys with guns are stopped, based upon data from a college project. Stats as you know can be biased, but here's what they came up with: most often it's by the police, some stopped on their own, some by suicide, some by bystanders physically, but also by good guys with guns.

The article tries to make light of the amount of good guy stops, it's the NY Times after all, but even so, it was almost 10%, which I think is a significant number.

Here's the article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/22/us/shootings-police-response-uvalde-buffalo.html

Definitely based, considering how many places Leo's would have to be to make the most violent crime stops, and how long their usual response times are.