I find myself agreeing with Steve Marmel, in this short essay. I’m not anti-gun. I’m not uber-gun-control, either. But I am pro-gun-safety. For us to believe the overused line that you need a “good guy with a gun” to “stop a bad guy with a gun”, is a recipe for simply arming more people, and unwittingly doing the NRA’s calling of increasing the sale of guns for the manufacturers who prop up that organization’s board.
The fact of the matter is, more people die from stolen or misused weapons and/or at the hands of mentally ill people, than those who are saved by “a good guy with a gun”. If you carry a gun and are not trained in panic situations (like police or military personnel are), the chances of you even using a gun to save lives (let alone not accidentally kill innocents) is very slim. The “bad guy” will always have the upper hand, because they know what they are about to do, and the “good guy” can only react.
http://theeverlastinggopstoppers.com/2013/06/quit-lying-good-guy-gun-steve-marmel/