13-YEAR OLD HOME DEFENDER "SCORES" FOR THE COMMON GOOD---PLUS

Good Gun Stats: Six-Time Felon Killed in a Shootout With 13-year-old

by Michelle Neuenswander | Jul 3, 2016

The Left hates stories where people who exercised their Second Amendment right to own a firearm. They hate it even more when the weapon is used legally and for one of its real intentions.

And that happened when a 13-year-old kid shot and killed a bad guy. Thank God the teen had a gun, this day and time.

As reported by The Post and Courier,

A 13-year-old Ladson boy fended off two would-be burglars by using his mother’s gun to protect himself while home alone Tuesday.

He killed one of them in an exchange of gunfire, and the second suspect was later arrested, according to the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office.

Lamar Anthwan Brown, 31, of Summerville, died at Trident Medical Center of gunshot wounds, according to Charleston County Chief Deputy Coroner Bobbi Jo O’Neal. He was dropped off at the hospital by the second suspect, Ira Bennett, after fleeing the Elderwood Drive home where the shooting took place, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Bennett, 28, of Kent Avenue in North Charleston has been charged with first-degree burglary and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.

Thankfully, the kid was ok. His mother said she is grateful for the outcome. Moreover, she’s grateful her son at some point learned how to use a firearm. And, the kid used it well.

I’ve often asked how many times a day this type of story happens. I’m talking about a story where the good guys have firearms and the bad guys losses. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case.

I know the Fed keeps statistics on gun deaths in just about everything. For example, they track gun deaths at workplaces, in law enforcement, and society at large. However, I was able to find gun stats, with limited data from the Fed.

* Guns used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense. Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year — or about 6,850 times a day. [1] This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives. [2]

* Of the 2.5 million times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, the overwhelming majority merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers. Less than 8% of the time, a citizen will kill or wound his/her attacker.[3]

* As many as 200,000 women use a gun every year to defend themselves against sexual abuse.[4]

* Even anti-gun Clinton researchers concede that guns are used 1.5 million times annually for self-defense. According to the Clinton Justice Department, there are as many as 1.5 million cases of self-defense every year. The National Institute of Justice published this figure in 1997 as part of “Guns in America” — a study which was authored by noted anti-gun criminologists Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig.[5]

* Armed citizens kill more crooks than do the police. Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606).[6] And readers of Newsweek learned that “only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The ‘error rate’ for the police, however, was 11 percent, more than five times as high.”[7]

* Handguns are the weapon of choice for self-defense. Citizens use handguns to protect themselves over 1.9 million times a year. [8] Many of these self-defense handguns could be labeled as “Saturday Night Specials.”

The government had no reasonable studies on the effectiveness of guns. Nevertheless, in this article there were two government agencies mentioned.

* Nationwide. In 1979, the Carter Justice Department found that of more than 32,000 attempted rapes, 32% were actually committed. But when a woman was armed with a gun or knife, only 3% of the attempted rapes were actually successful. [20] Justice Department study:

* 3/5 of felons polled agreed that “a criminal is not going to mess around with a victim he knows is armed with a gun.” [21]

[20]U.S. Department of Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Rape Victimization in 26 American Cities (1979), p. 31.

[21]U.S., Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, “The Armed Criminal in America: A Survey of Incarcerated Felons,” Research Report (July 1985): 27.

It’s easy to see that the Fed has no interesting in good statistics around an armed populace. And the stats are even better in areas where people can carry concealed weapons.

Let’s chalk this one up as one for the good guys…the gun guys!