@parados,
Quote:Ah, the "gun free" zone BS. So tell us of the 160 incidents how many of them occurred in "gun free" zones.
All of them. Schools are gun free, Gov. buildings too, most business will not let you carry as well as most churches. Name me one venue where it wasnt a gun free zone.
There have been a number of academic studies done on active shooting incidents. Here are some statistics from two of those studies.
John Nicolette, PhD, conducted a study of 35 active shooter incidents during 2012 and discussed the results of his study during a lecture entitled “Detection and Disruption of Insider/Outsider Perpetrated Violence.”
■The average active shooter incident lasts 12 minutes, while 37 percent last less than five minutes.
■49 percent of attackers committed suicide, 34 percent were arrested, and 17 percent were killed.
■51 percent of the attacks studied occurred in the workplace, while 17 percent occurred in a school, 17 percent occurred in a public place, and six percent occurred in a religious establishment.
(all gun free zones)
Peter Blair, PhD, and Hunter Martindale, PhD, conducted a study of 84 active shooter incidents from 2001 to 2010. Here’s a summary of their findings:
■Two percent of the shooters bring improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as an additional weapon.
■In 10 percent of the cases, the shooter stops and walks away. In 20 percent of the cases, the shooter goes mobile, moving to another location.
■43 percent of the time, the crime is over before police arrive.
In 57 percent of the shootings, an officer arrives while shooting is still underway,officers had to use force to stop the killing..
Active-Shooter Statistics
■Active-shooter incidents often occur in small- and medium-sized communities where police departments are limited by budget constraints and small workforces.
■The average active-shooter incident lasts 12 minutes. Thirty-seven percent last less than 5 minutes.11
■Overwhelmingly, the offender is a single shooter (98 percent), primarily male (97 percent). In 40 percent of the instances, they kill themselves.12
■The shooter often stops as soon as he hears or sees law enforcement, sometimes turning his anger or aggression on law enforcement.16
■Patrol officers are most likely responding alone or with a partner. When responding alone, 75 percent had to take action.
■A third of those officers who enter the incident alone are shot by the intruder.
In 28% of the incidents, police exchanged fire with the shooter, the study found. In nearly half of those incidents, police were killed or wounded.
More guns? You bet your ass!
A man suspected of beheading a woman and stabbing another worker at an Oklahoma food plant was fired right before the attack, police said Friday.
Alton Alexander Nolen, 30, was terminated from his job at Vaughan Foods processing plant just before the rampage Thursday afternoon in Moore, Oklahoma, just outside Oklahoma City, said Sgt. Jeremy Lewis of the Moore Police Department.
After "he was terminated, he drove to the front of the business, running into a vehicle, exited his vehicle, entered the business, where he encountered the first victim, Colleen Hufford, 54, and began assaulting her with a knife. He did kill Colleen and he did sever her head."
A second woman, identified as 43-year-old Traci Johnson, survived the attack, thanks to the intervention of another co-worker -- the company's chief operating officer Mark Vaughan...why was he armed? He is a volunteer deputy sheriff. The offender? He is an Isamic fanatic
So endeth the lesson.
