It's Good When The Victims Have Guns, Too

The bad guys have guns; that's a fact it would be very difficult to change. Unfortunately, it's common for anti-firearm folks to insist that innocent folk are safer if the bad guys are armed but they [innocent folk] are not. That is, an implicit premise in many of their arguments is: if you're attacked by a murderous maniac, you're safer if you (and other victims around you) are unarmed than you are if you are armed.

This is, of course, preposterous.

Guns raise plenty of difficult issues, but one thing's for sure: when faced with murderous psychos, it's better if the good guys have guns too. Here's a recent case (offered as an illustration, not as proof).

[Via The Corner]