New Gallup Poll: By almost 2-to-1 Americans think arming more people with concealed carry guns will help prevent terrorism <br /> <br />http://crimeresearch.org/2016/06/new-gallup-poll-by-almost-2-to-1-americans-think-arming-more-people-with-concealed-carry-permits-will-make-us-safer/ <br /> <br />Myth: Concealed carry doesn’t prevent crimes <br /> <br />Fact: News reports tell many stories of armed civilians preventing mass murder in public. A few selected at random include: <br /> <br />A citizen with a gun stopped a knife-wielding man as he began stabbing people in a Salt Lake City store. <br />Two men retrieved firearms from their cars and stopped a mass murder at the Appalachian School of Law. <br />Citizen takes out shooter while police were pinned down in Early, Texas. <br />Citizen stops apartment shoot-up in Oklahoma City. <br /> <br />http://www.gunfacts.info/gun-control-myths/concealed-carry/ <br /> <br />Chart of the day: More guns, less gun violence between 1993 and 2013 <br /> <br />https://www.aei.org/publication/chart-of-the-day-more-guns-less-gun-violence-between-1993-and-2013/ <br /> <br />After Westgate, Interpol Chief Ponders ‘Armed Citizenry’ <br /> <br />Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said today the U.S. and the rest of the democratic world is at a security crossroads in the wake of last month’s deadly al-Shabab attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya – and suggested an answer could be in arming civilians. <br /> <br />http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/exclusive-westgate-interpol-chief-ponders-armed-citizenry/story?id=20637341