CCW, the media, and saving lives

[RM]

There was another school shooting on the news recently- this time with a .22 caliber handgun. I was lamenting about news reporting, wondering if Maryland local TV news would even consider carrying a different kind of story, about how someone with a CCW saved the life of another citizen. So this got me to thinking: are there many documented cases of US citizens with CCW who have saved a life? I would assume many lives have been saved in self denfense; just wondering if there are many "newsworthy" stories about an armed citizen who saved someone innocent from being injured or killed.

 

[WvaBill]

Fewer than 1000 justifiable homicides per year with firearms. The MSM won't get too fired up over anything less than a killing. They seem to get more fired up over the possibility of blood in the streets than real-life experience of defensive gun use.

 

[One of Many]

Earlier this summer, a customer in a Wal-Mart store shot and killed a man that was trying to kill his wife with a knife. The wife was an employee, the husband jumped the counter and started stabbing the wife. Customer saw the attack and shot the husband. Do a search and you should find it.

 

[Standing Wolf]

The MSM won't get too fired up over anything less than a killing. They seem to get more fired up over the possibility of blood in the streets than real-life experience of defensive gun use.

The defensive use of firearms by mere commoners is inconsistent with the leftist extremist "news" media's socialist agendy.