Houston Public Media:

State Attorney General Ken Paxton suggested on Fox News that good people with guns might stop the bad ones.

“If it’s a place where somebody has the ability to carry there is also the opportunity that the gunman will be taken out before he has the opportunity to kill very many people,” Paxton said.

But how often does that happen, that a bystander saves the day with a gun?

That question was just one of many we wanted to look into. For some answers we talked with Ashraf Mozayani.

“Very very low number you are looking that somebody protects themselves with the gun,” she said.

How would Mozayani know?

For years, she saw the result of gun fire first-hand when she worked at the medical examiner’s office.

“I have been the lab director and chief toxicologist for Harris County Institute of Forensic Science or at that time we called the medical examiner’s office from 1996 to 2012,” she said.

If someone died in Harris County and required an autopsy, Mozayani was a part of a team analyzing the report.

“In any medical examiner office every morning you usually sit at the table and see every case that comes to the office,” she said.

Mozayani said she rarely saw a report of a fatality where someone used a gun in defense.

Here’s a quick note to Marissa Cummings of Houston Public Media.  Congratulations on winning the stupidest MSM article of the month award!  You should be very proud.

For proof that guns are rarely used in self defense, you turned to a ME who examines dead people.  Of course, you leave out the instances where a person has been shot and lives (which the ME wouldn’t see), and instances where no round has had to be discharged (which the ME wouldn’t see), and also instances where a gun was simply safely carried by someone if needed for self defense and it never had to be used (which law enforcement and the ME wouldn’t see), but could have been used for its intended purpose.

This last category is most important, because it exists for the amelioration of risk, which as we have all learned, is the product of probability and consequences.  Assault is a high risk evolution because the consequences are so high.  Carrying a weapon and being prepared to deploy and use it ameliorates that risk.

Merissa, sit back, get a stout cup of coffee, and think about these things for a while.  Try again later after intense study.