Yes, Democrats, Sometimes a Good Guy With a Gun Does Stop the Bad Guys. Here’s Proof. – Heritage.org

In a press conference defending the states new restrictions on concealed carry permit holders, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, told reporters last month: This whole concept that a good guy with a gun will stop the bad guys with a gun, it doesnt hold up. And the data bears this out, so that theory is over.

With all due respect to the governor, she clearly hasnt actually looked at the data.

Almost every major study on the issue has found that Americans use their firearms in self-defense between500,000 and 3 milliontimes annually, according to the latest report on the subject by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Just this year, a more comprehensive study concluded thatroughly 1.6 million defensive gun usesoccur in the United States every year.

For this reason, The Daily Signal each month publishes an article highlighting some of the previous months many news stories on defensive gun use that you may have missedor that might not have made it to the national spotlight in the first place. (Read other accountsherefrom 2019, 2020, 2021, and so far in 2022.)

The examples below represent only a fraction of the news stories on defensive gun use that we found in September. You may explore more by using The Heritage Foundations interactiveDefensive Gun Use Database.(The Daily Signal is Heritages multimedia news organization.)

As these recent cases show, the reality of armed citizens defending life, liberty, and property never has been more relevant, or more supported by the available evidence.

Restricting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans doesnt make them safer. It just hinders their ability to protect themselves and others, making them even more vulnerable to attacks by criminals who know their victims are defenseless.

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Yes, Democrats, Sometimes a Good Guy With a Gun Does Stop the Bad Guys. Here's Proof. - Heritage.org