NOTE: About 26.3% of gun owners are “public carriers”, meaning that carry in public at least “sometime”.. This equates to a little more than 10% of the population age 21 or higher. Myth: Concealed carry doesn’t prevent crimes Fact: There are approximately 182,000 defensive gun uses in public each year. Fact: News reports tell many stories of armed civilians preventing mass murder in public. A few selected at random include: A citizen with a gun stopped a knife-wielding man as he began stabbing people in a Salt Lake City store. Two men retrieved firearms from their cars and stopped a mass murder at the Appalachian School of Law. Citizen takes out shooter while police were pinned down in Early, Texas. Citizen stops apartment shoot-up in Oklahoma City. Fact: The FBI documents that 3.2% of active shooter events were stopped by CCW holders. However, other researchers claim the FBI undercounts the … Continue reading Concealed Carry