{"id":62133,"date":"2025-12-19T12:51:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62133"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:51:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:51:33","slug":"the-value-of-having-an-armed-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62133","title":{"rendered":"The Value Of Having An Armed Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2025\/11\/updated-new-research-do-armed-civilians-stop-active-shooters-more-effectively-than-uniformed-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">The Crime Prevention Research Center<\/span><\/a> has released a report showing the impact of armed citizens on attempted mass shootings. The figures cited at <span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">The Crime Prevention Research Center are very different from the figures released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The numbers were recently posted on Facebook:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ArmedCivilians.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ArmedCivilians.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ArmedCivilians.jpg 524w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ArmedCivilians-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ArmedCivilians-341x300.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, an armed citizen would have made a difference in Australia, which has very strict gun laws that discourage citizens from owning guns, and an armed citizen would have made a difference at Brown University, which is a gun-free zone. We see how well that worked out.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is not the gun. Rob Reiner and his wife were killed by a mentally unbalanced son who used a knife. Some of the Christmas market attackers in Europe used vehicles to run people over. The problem is with the person, not the weapon of choice. Gun-free zones only make things safer for the attacker&#8211;not the victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crime Prevention Research Center has released a report showing the impact of armed citizens on attempted mass shootings. The figures cited at The Crime Prevention Research Center are very different from the figures released by the Federal Bureau of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62133\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18890,18889,11084,7572],"class_list":["post-62133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-armed-citizens","tag-crime-prevention-research-center","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation-fbi","tag-gun-free-zones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62138,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62133\/revisions\/62138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}