Cases where CCW holders have stopped likely mass public shootings

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The site, crimeresearch.org, is run by the Crime Prevention Research Center, (CPRC). The CPRC was founded by Dr. John R. Lott, Jr.

John Lott created a fake persona, "Mary Rosh", to review his own work[1]. Lott's research has been repeatedly debunked[2], and there are credible arguments that he's an academic fraud[3]

1 https://reason.com/2003/05/01/the-mystery-of-mary-rosh-2/

2 https://www.armedwithreason.com/shooting-down-the-gun-lobbys...

3 https://archive.thinkprogress.org/debunking-john-lott-5456e8...

Every case in this article is backed by a citation to a mainstream news article, so we don't have to rely on guilt by association to determine its credibility.

"Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal" https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-thr...

Not a convincing quote at all if you look into the actual study.

https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/6/4/263

These results have a lot of room for interpretation.

Pretty hard to argue with this article because it's just a list of specific examples

Why count only mass shootings?

Because of the CCW single gun fatal outcome incident stats.

TL: DR; several dozen since 2001.

Given that there have been hundreds of mass shootings a year, can I safely assume CCW has no real effect?

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