The left always claims that there is no such thing as a \u201cgood guy with a gun\u201d and that guns universally make everyone less safe. But one armed mom would heartily disagree with the left\u2019s narrative.<\/p>\n
Over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, a family visiting Little Rock, Arkansas, from out of state was enjoying the city but when they got to their car parked in a River Market parking garage, their nice visit turned dangerous.<\/p>\n
The family, in town to celebrate their daughter\u2019s seventh birthday, was taking in the sights, playing at water parks and going to the zoo, according to\u00a0KARK-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n But when the husband, his pregnant wife and their two young daughters headed to their car, the quiet Wednesday morning was shattered when would-be thieves\u00a0attacked<\/a>\u00a0them.<\/p>\n KARK reported that at least two men immediately attacked the father, hitting him and tackling him to the ground where they continued beating him.<\/p>\n But the man\u2019s wife was not to be trifled with as she jumped in to defend her husband and children.<\/p>\n According to a Little Rock police report, this brave mom pulled the great equalizer, her own firearm, from its hiding place and shot one of the attackers in the neck while\u00a0defending<\/a>\u00a0her family.<\/p>\n The two escaped with relatively minor injuries.\u00a0\u201cAh, just a fractured rib, and my wife has a couple of knots on her forehead where he apparently punched her,\u201d the father, whose name was withheld to protect the family\u2019s privacy, told the media.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of things could\u2019ve happened and we never know what he was really planning or anything. If he was trying to kidnap our girls or just trying to steal the car or what,\u201d the father added.<\/p>\n The family said that the incident proved the efficacy of carrying a concealed weapon and also said the attack won\u2019t deter them from enjoying their lives.<\/p>\n \u201cWe live in Memphis and this kind of [thing] happens to people here all the time so I mean it\u2019s not something we are going to let shine down or shadow down on our lives because we do like to travel,\u201d the man said.<\/p>\n The man who was shot and who is in the hospital has not yet been charged, but a police investigation is underway.<\/p>\n This is a story that can\u2019t happen, though, according to the far left. The idea that a \u201cgood guy with a gun\u201d can stop crime is a \u201cmyth,\u201d they say.<\/p>\n Take the extremist, hardcore, left-wing website\u00a0Salon<\/a>, for instance. Recently the site detailed the left\u2019s argument that an armed populace is not a safer populace, calling the \u201cgood guy with a gun\u201d theory a \u201cpernicious myth.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe number of guns owned by civilians is an outrage, a profanity, a sign that this country has lost its collective mind,\u201d Salon wrote, adding that \u201cEvery mass shooting proves how mad it is\u201d that the \u201cgood guy\u201d theory is considered sound.<\/p>\n But, the left\u2019s Chicken Little approach to this claim wholly ignores the hundreds of stories that prove them to be wrong. Time after time, citizens are found defending themselves from attacks by using their legally concealed firearms or pulling out their firearms inside their own homes during a home invasion.<\/p>\n Western Journal has reported on \u201cgood guy\u201d stories dozens of times over the years. Just for a few examples, in 2018, a good guy with a gun saw a police officer in trouble and\u00a0quickly responded<\/a>\u00a0to help ensure an officer in Utah would go home alive to his family.<\/p>\n The following year, a man was able to\u00a0use his firearm<\/a>\u00a0to protect himself and his mother when two men broke into their home.<\/p>\n In 2022, a man legally carrying a firearm was able to\u00a0stop another man<\/a>\u00a0intent on mass murder at a mall in Indiana. Were it not for the bystander, the killer might have killed even more people than he did.<\/p>\n And just months ago, a man with a legally concealed firearm\u00a0stopped an attacker<\/a>\u00a0who was assaulting the staff of an Applebee\u2019s restaurant in New Hartford, New York.<\/p>\n This is but a tiny cross-section of \u201cgood guys with a gun\u201d stories. In 2019,\u00a0Fee.org<\/a>\u00a0writer Lawrence W. Reed noted that \u201cGuns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year, or 6,849 every day.\u201d The National Rifle Association added that numbers from Dr. John Lott\u2019s Crime Prevention Research Center show that\u00a034 percent<\/a>\u00a0of \u201cactive shooter\u201d attacks are stopped or limited by legal gun owners responding to a shooting.<\/p>\n Thankfully, the left did not prevent this armed mom from carrying the legal firearm she used to save the lives of herself and her family from vicious, brutal attackers. And thank God few people believe the left\u2019s false claim that there is no such thing as a \u201cgood guy with a gun.\u201d<\/p>\n