"Joseph Meehan" wrote in
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"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , "Joseph Meehan"
wrote:
So far I have only seen a couple of claims that privately owned
guns
(legal or illegal) have been successfully used to stop such a
shooter. I have seen a few claims to that effect, but they have
been proven to be premature and wrong.

Then you haven't been paying attention. Here are a couple examples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalac...f_Law_shooting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Woodham


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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.


I did not check your second reference, but the first one even had
it's
own footnote:

Gross, a police officer with the Grifton Police Department in his home
state of North Carolina, retrieved a 9 mm pistol and body armor.[9]
Bridges, a county sheriff's deputy

Neither were civilian and I seem to recall one or both guns were
police
issued.


since both "officers" were out of their jurisdictions,and in plain
clothes,they WERE effectively "civilians",and it really does not matter who
issued or owns the firearms used;what matters is that a *plainclothes ARMED
person* STOPPED the mass murderers before they could harm more than a few
people.

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Jim Yanik
jyanik
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