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'Good Guys With Guns' Can Rarely Stop Mass Shootings, and Texas and Ohio Show Why


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SOURCE: http://time.com/5644578/good-guys-with-guns-el-paso-dayton/
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In 2017, Ohio lawmakers passed a law that allows people with concealed-carry weapons permits to bring firearms into day care centers and onto private planes and lets employees bring guns to their company parking lots.“The logic seems to be to arm people so that people can stop mass shooters,” Chris Poliquin, a professor at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles, and one of the Harvard report’s authors, tells TIME.While mass shootings have not increased in frequency since 2012, they have become deadlier, according to a 2017 analysis by Politico. He fired at least 41 times in the seconds it took for six officers to respond and kill him.And in El Paso, police were able to respond to the situation within six minutes, though by that point, the gunman had stopped shooting and left the scene—leaving 22 people dead.In Gilroy, Calif., where three people were killed in a mass shooting the week before the shootings in El Paso and Dayton, police were on the scene in under a minute.These incidents show that while police or other armed response can end a rampage and save lives, authorities typically can’t respond fast enough to prevent an active shooter entirely––and the death tolls add up in seconds.“It really is unbelievably lucky how effective the police response was in these recent mass shootings,” Donohue says. According to Hendry, only about one in five rounds fired by officers responding to shootings hit their targets.“It’s a very difficult thing to shoot in a room that’s full of people, while someone is shooting at you,” he says.And even with the proper training and being in the right place, armed citizens cannot always stop a shooter before the assailant opens fire.Off-duty Border Patrol agent Jonathan Morales was hailed as a hero for pulling his concealed gun and responding to a gunman who entered the Chabad of Poway Synagogue in Southern California in April.“It happened so fast, literally within seconds,” Morales tells TIME.

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