Too Many Victims - A Candle Light Vigil

The Brady Campaign to prevent gun violence had a Vigil January 8, 2012 for victims of gun violence.

A group of shooters participated in the vigil, each providing their own comments

An explanation of the stage design is important. The brown target in the distance represents a "bad guy". The white targets represent innocent people. When scored only hits on the bad guy counted and hits on the innocent were heavily penalized. When the scores have been reported I'll make anther post. I think I might have won this stage. I had a good time with five A-zone hits, one C-zone hit and no hits on the no-shoot targets.

The instructions to the shooter were:

Start position: Facing up-range holding a candle with both hands. Gun is in a concealed carry state.
Course of fire: Upon signal drop candle, turn, draw, and engage T1 with six rounds. Comstock scoring.

This stage design was to simulate the January 8th 2011 shooting in Tucson. It was this event which the Brady Campaign wanted to bring attention to. This was to stimulate political interest in more gun laws.

Credit for the stage design goes to Bob N. (shown in the video preview above).

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Candle Light Vigil
• Gun Rights
• Brady Campaign
• Gun Control
• Gun Politics
• Too Many Victims

[radradroadbot]

candles don't stop violence, hollow points do.

[pbtpu40]

@SkrepnekYT Sorry you don't celebrate the right to defend yourself where you come from. Most of us prefer the law abiding victim to come out on top. The Brady Campaign and CSGV would prefer the criminal have a safe working environment.

It's the rest of the world that is bizarre in looking down upon those who protect themselves.

[MACA5982]

Many liberal panties are getting twisted in a knot over this video. LOL!

[ymp5000]

I love this video!

[ymp5000]

@radradroadbot Or better yet +P hollow points.

[armoredman]

Well done, wish we had any IDPA or IDPA style matches around here to add that as a stage. :)

[cargosquid]

Nice of New Trajectory to give you some linkage. I wonder how many of "HIS" people saw this and changed their minds about being disarmed.

[SARDiverDave]

@quedorf And you're assuming the non-firearm homicide rate here would remain the same if guns were somehow outlawed or disappeared. A poor assumption.

[SARDiverDave]

@quedorf "Better laws"? There were already laws against bashing heads in with crow bars...the "anecdotal" evidence I gave that you dismissed. What other law would have stopped that guy from bashing my brains in? Because I can sure as hell tell you that a law against guns would have helped him do it, by disarming me.

[SARDiverDave]

@quedorf Okay, this statement tells me I'm wasting my time with you.

[SARDiverDave]

@quedorf All that can be reliably provided are personal anecdotes, since, to my knowledge, there is no reliably collected statistic of crimes that are prevented by the use or display of a firearm. The possession of a gun does not drive someone to commit a crime, any more than possession of a camera drives one to manufacture pornography. Someone who is disposed to steal or kill or cause mayhem will do so with or without a gun.