The Crime Prevention Research Center brought the receipts.

According to the findings of a new study from the CPRC, armed civilians “do a better job” than law enforcement officers to stop active shooters, “with fewer mistakes” to boot. Here’s what John R. Lott, Jr., president of the the CPRC, explained of the findings:

In non-gun-free zones, where civilians are legally able to carry guns, concealed carry permit holders stopped 51.5 percent of active shootings, compared to 44.6 percent stopped by police, CPRC found in a deep dive into active shooter scenarios between 2014 and 2023.

Not only do permit holders succeed in stopping active shooters at a higher rate, but law enforcement officers face significantly greater risks when intervening. Our research found police were nearly six times more likely to be killed and 17 percent more likely to be wounded than armed civilians.

I say this in all seriousness, God bless the work of the CPRC because compiled and organized data is invaluable in the gun debate, but of course armed Americans physically present for what’s fixing to be a massacre do a better job of preserving innocent life than government hires not near the coming carnage. As the saying goes, “When seconds count, police are minutes away.”

Remember Eli Dicken in Indiana who took out a would-be mass shooter loaded with extra magazines full of rifle rounds?

The shooter began firing at 5:56:48 pm

15 seconds later, at 5:57:03 pm
22-year-old Eli Dicken carrying a handgun under the new constitutional carry law, fired 10 rounds from 40 yards, hitting the shooter eight times.

The shooter collapsed and died.#614clinton pic.twitter.com/WSTLOd5ch4

— Clinton (@614clinton) January 24, 2024

What about Jack Wilson, who saved a whole church full of people when he took down the shooter with a headshot from at least 50 feet away?

The Center also revealed that of the 180 cases its researchers looked into, a bystander was hit in only one instance (.56%) of the time, interference with police happened zero times, armed civilians suffered injuries themselves 24.4% of the time, and “the shooting they prevented [was] likely to be a mass public shooting” in a whopping 32% of the case examples.

It’s not unknown why the Founders included the Second Amendment—unless you’re a leftist idiot—and it wasn’t because they just wanted to guarantee a person’s right to to don waders and go duckhunting, but once again, with the data in, the Second Amendment proves itself to be the best protection against undeserved violence. Not only the violence that the state would surely inflict upon us if we were unarmed (all states do), but against violence from those who should be our very neighbor.

In the words of George Mason: “I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.”

Hat tip: Thomas Lifson.

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