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<blockquote data-quote="bone_naga" data-source="post: 6658245" data-attributes="member: 85939"><p>Kind of sort of but not exactly. On an individual level, it can work. There was a National Crime Victimization Survey where they talked to convicted criminals and many of them stated that they had avoided targeting a specific person because they believed that person to have a gun. Criminals aren't stupid. They're like any other predator, they tend to pick off the easy targets that give them what they want with minimal risk to themselves (assuming that there isn't a personal motivation involved, of course).</p><p></p><p>However, that doesn't stop them from committing the crime at all. If they pass one person up, they will choose another.</p><p></p><p>Mass shootings seem to nearly always take place at a soft target where guns are not allowed, even if it is an otherwise gun-friendly state. There are cases of possible shooting sprees being stopped but it's impossible to say how many would have been killed had no intervention occurred because we don't have crystal balls that can show us what might have been.</p><p></p><p>Back to the individual level, though, defensive gun uses outnumber all gun deaths (including suicides, which account for the majority of gun deaths), so I'd say it is still worth consideration. In fact, I really don't think that basing policy around mass shootings vs normal everyday crime really makes a lot of sense. Instead of real solutions, all we get from those events are worthless knee-jerk reactions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bone_naga, post: 6658245, member: 85939"] Kind of sort of but not exactly. On an individual level, it can work. There was a National Crime Victimization Survey where they talked to convicted criminals and many of them stated that they had avoided targeting a specific person because they believed that person to have a gun. Criminals aren't stupid. They're like any other predator, they tend to pick off the easy targets that give them what they want with minimal risk to themselves (assuming that there isn't a personal motivation involved, of course). However, that doesn't stop them from committing the crime at all. If they pass one person up, they will choose another. Mass shootings seem to nearly always take place at a soft target where guns are not allowed, even if it is an otherwise gun-friendly state. There are cases of possible shooting sprees being stopped but it's impossible to say how many would have been killed had no intervention occurred because we don't have crystal balls that can show us what might have been. Back to the individual level, though, defensive gun uses outnumber all gun deaths (including suicides, which account for the majority of gun deaths), so I'd say it is still worth consideration. In fact, I really don't think that basing policy around mass shootings vs normal everyday crime really makes a lot of sense. Instead of real solutions, all we get from those events are worthless knee-jerk reactions. [/QUOTE]
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