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Lapierre. >> the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> just so you know, this weekend in new york, there were some "good guys with guns," trained professionals in times square saturday night, who ended up putting bullets into the bodies of innocent bystanders and not into the suspect. this is not the first time something like this has happened. about a year ago, two counterterrorism officers assigned to the empire state building, the kinds of officers trained to...

Trained to respond specifically to terrorist threats, shot and killed an armed murder suspect, but amid the chaos, nine bystanders were also shot. an 11-year study ending in 2006 that looked at the rate in which new york police fired their guns found that officers hit their targets just 34% of the time. now, take a moment and think about the mass confusion that typifies mass shootings like the one that we saw this morning. a lot of the time, we cant tell how many shooters there are. eyewitnesses...

Immediately, gun advocates and conservatives offered their own versions of the heroic miss made famous by the nras ceo wayne lapierre. >> the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> just so you know, this weekend in new york, there were some "good guys with guns," trained professionals in times square saturday night, who ended up putting bullets into the bodies of innocent bystanders and not into the suspect. this is not the first time something like this has happ...