Armed bystander credited with preventing more deaths in Indiana shooting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Dicken immediately became a cause celebre for gun rights advocates, who argue -- despite government statistics to the contrary -- that armed civilians are the best defense against the kinds of random mass shootings that killed more than 100 people in the United States last year.
49% : Although he lacked any law enforcement or military training, Dicken exhibited "proficient" and "tactically sound" moves in firing at "the gunman with a handgun from quite a distance," Ison told reporters the next day.
49% : Gun rights advocates seized on the latest mass shooting as an example of why it is important to allow Americans to carry firearms.
38% : A spate of gun violence in public places since May, including mass shootings at a New York state supermarket store, a Texas elementary school and an Illinois Independence Day parade, has renewed a fierce U.S. debate over gun regulations.

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