{"id":83565,"date":"2022-07-19T15:26:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T20:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=83565"},"modified":"2022-07-19T15:30:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T20:30:40","slug":"83565","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=83565","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Greenwood Mall Shooting Should End Claims of the Danger of Permitless Concealed Carry.<\/a><\/p>\n

During the recent\u00a0attempted mass shooting<\/a>\u00a0at the Greenwood Park Mall in Indiana,\u00a0a 22-year old man<\/a>\u00a0who was lawfully carrying a pistol stopped the killing. For this heroic action, he\u2019s been called \u201cgood Samaritan\u201d by local law enforcement. Even\u00a0the owners of the mall<\/a>, (who ban\u00a0guns<\/a>\u00a0on their properties praised his actions. That\u00a0got under the skin<\/a>\u00a0of anti-gun<\/a>\u00a0activists.<\/p>\n

Why? If they were\u00a0forced to be honest<\/a>\u00a0about it like the main character in the 1997 film\u00a0Liar Liar<\/em>, they\u2019d have to admit that a quintessential case of a good guy with a\u00a0gun<\/a> stopping a bad guy with a gun is utterly devastating to their case against civilian gun rights.<\/p>\n

Sadly (for them) the facts keep coming in, and they continue to be very bad for the gun\u00a0control industry\u2019s agenda. Not only does Greenwood Park clearly demonstrate that permitless carry (a.k.a. constitutional carry) saves lives, but one of the key arguments against permitless carry was also destroyed.<\/p>\n

Constitutional Carry Allowed Lives To Be Saved<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Recent reporting from\u00a0WRTV News<\/a>\u00a0sheds light on an important detail in how this mass shooting was stopped . . .<\/p>\n

According to [Greenwood Police Chief James] Ison, [Eli] Dicken did not have a permit for his handgun, but due to the passage of the \u201cConstitutional Carry\u201d bill in Indiana, he was legally carrying the weapon.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI am 100% certain that many more people would have died last night if it wasn\u2019t for his heroism,\u201d Ison said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If there\u2019s a more devastating message for the forces of gun\u00a0control, I don\u2019t know what it would be.<\/p>\n

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If Indiana hadn\u2019t passed its law allowing permitless carry \u2014 which\u00a0went into effect<\/a>\u00a0as of July 1 \u2014 the man who stopped the killing wouldn\u2019t have been able to legally carry a firearm. If he would have carried anyway (under the \u201cbetter to be tried by twelve than carried by six\u201d theory), knowing that he would have faced charges could have pushed him to head for the fire exit when the shooting started rather than stepping up to save others\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s extremely difficult to argue now that constitutional carry didn\u2019t save lives (perhaps dozens of them) this past weekend in Indiana. That\u2019s damning to the anti-gun\u00a0case against unfettered Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

The Un-Permitted Good Samaritan Clearly Knew What To Do<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Another common argument thrown up against constitutional carry laws is that it eliminates the requirement any training in order to carry a gun. Therefore, they say, untrained people who are carrying\u00a0guns<\/a>\u00a0will be a danger to the public with their poor marksmanship and knowledge of the law.<\/p>\n

Again, the mall shooting incident puts the lie to that one, too . . .<\/p>\n

\u201cI will say his actions were nothing short of heroic. He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun,\u201d Ison said. \u201c(He) was very tactically sound as he moved to close in on the suspect, he was also motioning for people to exit behind him. He has no police training and no military background.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Ison explained to WRTV, Dicken\u2019s first shot at the gunman was from 40-50 yards away and it appeared the very first shot hit the gunman.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dicken was able to hit the gunman with additional rounds.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dicken was carrying a 9-MM Glock, according to Ison. After confirming the shooter was no longer a threat, Dicken approached mall security and cooperated with officers, according to Ison.<\/em><\/p>\n

The good guy here not only showed great presence and emotional control, but he was able to shoot a would be mass murderer from over 40 yards away, hitting him on the first shot and connecting with several more shots from his GLOCK. Law enforcement described his actions as \u201ctactically sound\u201d and he knew how to cooperate with police after the shoot.<\/p>\n

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Eli Dicken (courtesy WRTV)<\/p>\n

If you poke around YouTube, this is better gunfighting than a lot of what we see from police and people who have taken the required carry permit coursework. Clearly, then, a person can be not only skilled with their pistol, but behave safely and professionally without taking a mandated \u2014 and frequently useless \u2014 state-mandated training class, let alone having the benefit of any prior law enforcement or military training. You know, the only people the gun-grabbing community thinks should be allowed to own and carry\u00a0guns<\/a><\/p>\n

Eli Dicken not only shot the bad guy here and saved lives, but he also shot down the anti-gunners\u2019 agenda in a big way. And he deserves our endless appreciation and respect for doing it.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Greenwood Mall Shooting Should End Claims of the Danger of Permitless Concealed Carry. During the recent\u00a0attempted mass shooting\u00a0at the Greenwood Park Mall in Indiana,\u00a0a 22-year old man\u00a0who was lawfully carrying a pistol stopped the killing. For this heroic action, he\u2019s been called \u201cgood Samaritan\u201d by local law enforcement. Even\u00a0the owners of the mall, (who … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heroism","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83569,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83565\/revisions\/83569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}