Armed Citizen Stops Mass Shooting In Gary, IN

We're in Indiana, they [are] from Illinois, they don't know people got permits to carry guns, so bang bang, that is what happened. ~ Jessie Sturgis

Gary, IN is one of the most crime-ridden cities in the US, and it's just down the road from the South Side of Chicago, where the crime rate is also famously high

Clearly, residents of both municipalities need to exercise their right to self defense.  It's also clear that the situation in the unfortunately named Safe and Sound Senior Citizens Club was exactly the kind of situation opponents of armed self defense claim make armed self defense impossible.  The assailants shot four club patrons, including 65-year-old Mr E. C. Robinson.

E.C. Robinson, 65, a Gary resident, was shot but managed to defend himself and others with his own gun.  "He shot him twice, that is when E.C. started shooting back," said one witness. 

Despite being shot twice, Mr Robinson returned fire and hit his attacker.

Police say the suspected gunman is a 23-year-old from Chicago. They believe his motive was to rob people at the senior citizens club....The suspect hid in the bathroom after he was shot until police came and took him into custody.

Opponents of armed self defense claim one has to be a Navy SEAL to effectively use a gun to defend oneself, but Criminologist Lawrence Southwick wrote in the St. Louis University Law Review that...

Somewhere around 0.8 to 2.0 million violent crimes are deterred each year because of gun ownership and use by civilians. In addition, another 1.5 [million] to 2.5 million crimes are stopped by armed civilians.

More specifically, opponents of armed self defense claim it's impossible for an ordinary person to defend him/herself in mass shooting situations because they are inherently chaotic.  Mr Robinson, and many others, prove them wrong.

But we all know that "gun control" isn't about guns, it's a bout control.  It's about controlling people.  Facts are, therefore, mere inconveniences.