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>That could be a very interesting question to ask directly of the NRA: "How many shooting incidents in the last X years were ended by armed members of your organization, who were not trained professionals acting in the course of their regular duties?"
I'm sure they wouldn't dodge the question as they have run a column in National Rifleman since 1958 addressing exactly that question
http://www.nraila.org/armedcitizen/http://www.old-yankee.com/rkba/armcit/Of course this isn't objective but I assume all the facts stated are checkable and I don't ever remember anyone "exposing" their making it all up and I'm sure in 52 years somebody would have if that were the issue.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
