While reports of Tuesday's shooting at the Clackamas Town
Center Mall in Oregon, dominated the national media, until Friday's horrific
shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, one very important
detail has been repeatedly (and intentionally) left out of the MSM's coverage.
The shooter, Jacob Tyler Roberts, was confronted with an
armed citizen, at which time he ran away and shot himself. By the time police
arrived on the scene, Roberts was already dead.
That armed man was 22-year-old Nick Meli, who was at the
mall shopping with a young woman who was babysitting her friend's baby.
Here are a few facts about armed Americans:
- In 1982, the town of Kennesaw, Georgia, passed an ordinance which required all heads of household to have at least one gun in the house. The burglary rate immediately dropped an astounding 89 percent. Ten years after the law was passed, the burglary rate was still 72 percent less than it was in 1981.
- Armed citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as the police do every year in this country (1,527 to 606).
- A 1996 University of Chicago study concluded that states which passed concealed carry laws reduced their murder rates by 8.5 percent, rapes by 5 percent, aggravated assaults by 7 percent, and robbery by 3 percent.
- According to the National Safety Council, with guns being used 2.5 million times a year in self defense against criminals, firearms are actually used more than 80 times more often to protect lives, rather than to take lives.
- A 1979 Justice Department study entitled Rape Victimization in American Cities, concluded that of more than 32,000 attempted rapes, 32 percent were actually committed. But when a woman was armed with a gun or knife, only 3 percent of the attempted rapes were actually committed.
- Another Justice Department study found that 57 percent of felons agreed that "criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running the police."
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