Cases in which guns saved lives.

Specific examples are hard to find in the mainstream media because biased reporters and editors don't want to spread the idea that armed self-defense in one's home is legal and effective.


Why do civilians need assault weapons?  In Harris County, Texas, a fifteen-year-old boy was home alone with his twelve-year-old sister when two burglars broke into the house.  The young boy got his father's assault rifle and shot one of the burglars.  The boy and his sister were unharmed, and the burglars were apprehended.  Assault rifles can take lives, but as shown in this case, they can also save lives.
Homeowner shoots, wounds would-be burglar.  Police arrested a 39-year-old man Monday night [2/4/2013] after a homeowner shot and wounded him while he was trying to break into a house in north Houston, officials said.
Suspect shot, killed in west Vegas break-in.  Police said one of three men believed to have broken into a west Las Vegas home was killed after a homeowner opened fire at the group.
Police release name of suspect shot in Garrard County burglary.  They say they came home and found a burglar inside.  But a central Kentucky couple turned the tables on the intruder, and police say the husband shot him.
Utah store owner pulls gun to foil knife-wielding robber.  A knife-wielding, would-be bandit got an unpleasant surprise Monday when he tried to hold up a South Salt Lake convenience store and found himself facing a gun.
Serial burglar shot by homeowner.  Police say a serial burglar, who has been arrested 37 times, was shot by a homeowner in northwest Albuquerque Sunday morning [3/18/2012].
Why You Never Bring a Brick to a Gun Fight.  [Scroll down]  Good on that Good Samaritan neighbor.  Had he not intervened, who knows how badly the woman would have been hurt.  And had he intervened and not had a gun, there's no telling how much more damage the bad guy would have done to him with that brick.
Burglar Rolls Snake-Eyes in Vegas.  KLAS-TV in Las Vegas reports that in the early morning hours of Tuesday [2/5/2013] a man in his seventies shot and killed an armed intruder who had just broken into the man's home along with a couple of armed partners-in-crime.  After dialing 9-1-1 and alerting police to the home invasion, the man shot and killed one of the intruders.
Suspect Shot and Killed in Attempted Home Invasion in Fairborn, Ohio.  Well, shouldn't this be flooding the news channels, considering everything else?
Armed guard disarms shooter at Georgia middle school.  An armed guard at a Georgia middle school disarmed a student who had opened fire, wounding one person. [...] The guard will be disappeared from the story because his actions don't fit the narrative.  It will be forgotten how many lives he may have saved, and how his presence proved the efficacy of hiring armed security for our schools.
Armed Guard Stops Shooter.  While DHS seeks 7,000 semiautomatic guns with 30-round clips for self-defense, it makes a video saying you should use scissors to overpower armed predators.  Luckily, a school guard in Atlanta thought differently.
Martin Luther King Jr. High School coach shoots attackers.  Police sources tell 7 Action News that a women's basketball coach from Martin Luther King, Jr. Senior High School shot two men who attacked him as he was walking two basketball players to their cars in the school parking lot.  Police sources say the coach was walking the two girls to their cars when two men allegedly approached and one pulled out a gun and grabbed him by his chain necklace.  The coach then pulled out his gun and shot both of them, according to sources.  The man who shot the attackers was 70 years old, according to police.
The Editor says...The streets and schools named after Martin Luther King are often the most dangerous places in town.  Use your favorite search engine to find "Martin Luther King Boulevard after dark."
Armed veteran in wheelchair thwarts home invasion.  Authorities say a U.S. Army veteran who uses a wheelchair wielded a pistol to run off a man who broke into his home near Athens [Georgia].
Home Intruders Decide Not to Stick Around After Seeing Their 'Victim' Holding an AR-15.No Shots Fired.  "By the time I had it out and ready, one of the men came at my door, slowly opened it, saw that there was a barrel on the other side and from there backed out," Raymond recalled.  After seeing the barrel of an AR-15 staring them in the face, the two men fled from the apartment.  No shots were fired and no one was injured.  In fact, the rifle wasn't even loaded at the time of the incident, Raymond said.
D.C. man who shot dogs biting boy could face charges.  The incident unfolded Sunday afternoon [1/20/2013], after three pit bulls attacked an 11-year-old boy as he rode his bicycle through the Brightwood neighborhood of Northwest, according to a police report.  When the man, a neighbor, saw the boy being mauled by the dogs, he went inside his home and got a gun.  The man killed one of the dogs.  The gunfire attracted the attention of a police officer in the area near Eighth and Sheridan streets, where the attack occurred.  The officer responded and shot the other two pit bulls as they continued to attack the boy.
When Kids and Guns Mix.  The mainstream media won't report stories of children who have successfully used guns in self-defense to save their lives.
Gun control regulations disarm women.  In reality, guns make women safer.  In a violent confrontation, guns reverse the balance of power.  Armed with a gun, a woman may even have the advantage over a violent attacker.  More than 90 percent of violent crimes occur without a firearm, according to federal statistics.  When a violent criminal threatens or attacks a woman, he rarely uses a gun.  Attackers use their size and physical strength, preying on women who are at a severe disadvantage.
Defensive Gun Use Statistics.  According to the National Self Defense Survey conducted by Florida State University criminologists in 1994, the rate of Defensive Gun Uses can be projected nationwide to approximately 2.5 million per year — one Defensive Gun Use every 13 seconds.  Among 15.7% of gun defenders interviewed nationwide during The National Self Defense Survey, the defender believed that someone "almost certainly" would have died had the gun not been used for protection — a life saved by a privately held gun about once every 1.3 minutes.
Guns save more lives than they take; prevent more injuries than they inflict.  Guns [are] used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense.  Law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year — or about 6,850 times a day.  This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives.  Of the 2.5 million times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, the overwhelming majority merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers.  Less than 8% of the time, a citizen will kill or wound his/her attacker.
Guns Used in Self-defense.  According to the authors of Cato's recently released study on how often guns are used by citizens to prevent crime, "tens of thousands of crimes are prevented each year by ordinary citizens with guns."  In a study of more than 5,000 news reports over an eight-year period, Clayton Cramer and David Burnett showed that the mere presence of an armed citizen thwarts many crimes, even beyond those that are reported by the police and subsequently printed in the newspaper.

How often do Americans use guns for defensive purposes?  Criminologist and researcher Gary Kleck, using his own commissioned phone surveys and number extrapolation, estimates that 2.5 million Americans use guns for defensive purposes each year.  He further found that of those who had used guns defensively, one in six believed someone would have been dead if they had not resorted to their defensive use of firearms.

Same story, much older article:How Often Are Firearms Used in Self-Defense?  There are approximately two million defensive gun uses per year by law abiding citizens.  That was one of the findings in a national survey conducted by Gary Kleck, a Florida State University criminologist in 1993.

Same story again:Simple metal propulsion:  According to a 1993 survey conducted by Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck, approximately 2 million law-abiding citizens per year use guns to resist crimes.

Be prepared for evil.  Regardless of whether we can fathom the evil and carnage that some rabid monsters do, we must be prepared and ready to respond to evil at a moment's notice. ... [S]adly, another lunatic will commit more mass carnage — maybe not tomorrow, next week or even next year.  But it will happen again, just as it did at Luby's cafeteria in Texas, at Virginia Tech, at a McDonald's in San Diego, at Columbine High School in Colorado and at a shopping mall in Omaha.

Colorado Shooting and Gun Control.  [Scroll down]  As a matter of fact, Gun Owners of America, at gunowners.org, cites statistics indicating guns are used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense, or around 80 times a day (other statistics estimate this number could range as low as 1.5 million, but either number is a lot!).  This includes 200,000 women a year using guns to defend themselves against sexual abuse.  As a matter of fact, as of 2008, armed citizens killed more violent bad guys than the police (1,527 vs. 606).

The Truth About Guns.  [Scroll down]  Are Guns Useful for Self-Defense?  As it turns out, they are. According to research by renowned Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck, guns are used between 800,000 and 2.5 million times every year in self-defense.  A study by John Lott and David Mustard found that handguns appear to help women more than men.  While murder rates drop when either sex carries more guns, the effect is especially pronounced when women carry.

Black Americans March for MLK and a Shotgun.  For example, consider Charles Hicks.  A black American whose father, Robert Hicks, was "a prominent leader in Deacons for Defense and Justice — an organization of black men in Louisiana who used shotguns and rifles to repel attacks by white vigilantes during the 1960s."  Hicks understands that without access to firearms, the Ku Klux Klan and others would have had their way with black citizens.

Specific cases:


Georgia College Student Saves Himself, Ten Friends By Shooting At Masked Attackers, Killing One.  But no, he shouldn't have had an "evil gun"...
College Student Shoots, Kills Home Invader.  A group of college students said they are lucky to be alive and they're thanking the quick-thinking of one of their own.  Police said a fellow student shot and killed one of two masked me who burst into an apartment.  Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Jones met with one of the students to talk about the incident.  "Apparently, his intent was to rape and murder us all," said student Charles Bailey.
Grandma With Gun Halts Store Robbery.  A gun-carrying grandmother in Milwaukee foiled an attempted robbery when she pulled a firearm on the suspect as he grabbed for her grocery store cash register.  Ernestine Aldana, 48, was behind the counter at the San Ignacio Market when a man in a dark hat pulled a knife on her and attempted to rob the store register, police said.
CBS Actually Covers Gun Self-Defense Case Promoted By NRA; ABC, NBC Punt.  On Friday's [1/11/2013] CBS This Morning, Bill Plante refreshingly spotlighted how firearms are used to protect the lives of ordinary Americans.  Plante noted how the National Rifle Association "Tweeted a story... about Melinda Herman, a Georgia woman who shot an intruder in self-defense as she waited with her two children in a closet....  She fired at the man multiple times with a .38 caliber handgun."  The two other Big Three morning shows failed to mention this story during their coverage of the current gun control debate.
School Shooting in Tennessee That National Media Did Not Report.  I am sure that no one outside of our immediate region has ever heard the story, because the only person who was shot — and killed — was the gunman.  These types of stories don't fit the narrative of those who want "gun-free zones" and so are ignored by the national media.
Never bring a cattle prod to a gun fight.Police: Fla. clerk's gun beats thief's cattle prod.  Authorities say a Florida Panhandle man has been arrested after he tried to rob a convenience store with a cattle prod but was thwarted by a clerk with a gun.
Armed businessman confronts thieves in the act, deputies say.  A 64-year-old man armed with a shotgun caught two burglary suspects in the act Monday [1/7/2013] and detained the men until deputies arrived, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office reported.  The owner of West Crane Services on Newport Avenue told deputies his business was burglarized last week, so he staked out the property at night anticipating the thieves would return.
Homeowner shoots at two men breaking into his Vallejo residence.  At about 11:45 a.m. the man found the two men breaking into his home in the 200 block of Windsor Court, police said.  The man then armed himself with a weapon and took a shot at the suspects, who fled the house in a champagne four-door late 1990s Cadillac, police said.
Concealed Carry Holder Teaches Armed Robber Why It's a Bad Idea to Pull a Gun on a Dad.  A father in Columbus, Ohio was forced to defend himself and his 2-month-old son when a man pulled a gun and attempted to rob him on Monday night [1/7/2013].  Luckily, Kelby Smith, 34, owns a permit to carry a concealed handgun and was able to shoot the robber.
Armed Florida senior changes would-be robber's life with legal handgun.  Here's some more news for the media gatekeepers to bury, since it runs strongly counter to their preferred gun-control narrative:  a 71-year-old Florida man used his lawfully carried firearm to thwart an armed robbery at an Internet cafe in Ocala, Florida.
Girls With Guns.  In October 2012, 12-year-old Kendra St. Clair was also at home alone when a home invader kicked in her back door.  Her mother advised her over the phone to hide in the bathroom.  Luckily, the preteen grabbed her parents' handgun first -- and shot the intruder in the shoulder.  "When I had the gun, I didn't think I was actually going to have to shoot somebody," she told ABC News.  "I think it's going to change me a whole lot, knowing that I can hold my head up high and nothing can hurt me anymore."  Now that's girl power.
Boy Uses AR15 To Stop A Home Invasion.  Bottom line, banning the AR15 and its variants is banning perhaps the single most effective weapon for home defense.  That is particularly true for women and teens.  Keep that in mind as the left tries to disarm America in the wake of Sandy Hook.
Mother Hiding with Kids Shoots Intruder.  As I've mentioned before, while I'm a huge supporter of the Second Amendment, I'm no fan of guns and sincerely wish that owning one (or three) wasn't a necessary responsibility, especially when you have a family.  Here's another reason why that's the case.
Mother Hiding with Kids Shoots Intruder.  A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety Friday [1/4/2013].  The incident happened at a home on Henderson Ridge Lane in Loganville around 1 p.m.  The woman was working in an upstairs office when she spotted a strange man outside a window, according to Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman.  He said she took her 9-year-old twins to a crawlspace before the man broke in using a crowbar.  But the man eventually found the family.
Cops: Mother of two surprises intruder with five gunshots.  The Loganville mother of two assumed the knocks on her front door Friday afternoon were from a solicitor.  "Don't answer," she yelled to her 9-year-old twins playing downstairs.  When the visitor began repeatedly ringing the doorbell, she called her husband at work.  "Get the kids and hide," he told his wife.
This didn't happen; please ignore this post.  Liberal-fascists would rather this woman had been raped and murdered, and her children right along with her.
Obama's Disarm the Victim Movement.  So now we're learning that Barack Obama wants to make the sale of high capacity magazines illegal.  How nice.  Nice — and easy to expose as completely absurd.  Let's just use one occurrence to address the dream shared by Dear Ruler and liberals of eliminating these high-capacity magazines in rifles and handguns.  To show the absurdity of this idea, let's just go back to Loganville, Georgia 11 days ago.
The December 16 Movie Theater Shooting You Didn't Hear About.  The story was covered locally, but seeing as it happened just one day after the Sandyhook massacre in Connecticut, you would think it would have gotten more airplay in the MSM.  Don't stories like this one play right into their anti-gun hands?  No — not this one.
Here's Why Someone Would Need To Own An 'Assault' Rifle.  The left keeps asking why anyone needs an "assault" rifle.  Here's one reason — in 2010, a Texas teen used a rifle similar to the one used in Newtown to defend his younger sister and himself from home invaders.
Three in the Head.  I carried a gun in New York City for more than a decade — back when there were thousands of murders a year and the Bronx led the nation in killings.  On at least four occasions, that gun saved my life, and in a couple of instances, the lives of people who were with me at the time.
Intruder fatally shot after breaking into Glen Burnie business, police say.  Anne Arundel County police are investigating a report that an employee in a coin shop in Glen Burnie shot and killed an intruder Tuesday morning [12/25/2012].
Police: Man defends himself, kills robbery suspect.  Police in Atlanta say a man was defending himself when he shot and killed a suspected robber on Christmas Eve.
When assault weapons saved Koreatown.  This year marked the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, sparked by the acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers accused of beating the now-deceased Rodney King.  During the five days, mobs around Los Angeles looted stores, burnt 3,767 buildings, caused more than $1 billion in property damage, and led to the deaths of more than 50 people and left another 4,000 injured.  A story that has been forgotten since then is that of the brave storeowners in Koreatown who fended off mobs with handguns, rifles and assault weapons.
Ohio crime victims fire back in 2 shooting incidents.  In separate incidents less than 12 hours apart, crime victims fought back by shooting robbers Sunday [12/9/2012] and early Monday, killing one suspect and injuring three.  In both cases, the crime victims were not hurt.
Robbery Suspect Shot and Killed in Triple Shooting.  Two robbery victims turn the tables on the man who tried to rob them.  The victims, a man and woman were shot, but in the end its the robber who didn't make it out alive.
Attempted Battle Creek robber shot in head.  A clerk at a Battle Creek convenience store wasn't about to be robbed.  The 28-year-old man running the register at Liberty Mart Convenience store shot the attempted thief in the head when the suspect pulled a knife and demanded money.
Cafe manager fends off robbers.  The manager at an Internet sweepstakes busines fired twice at robbers early this morning and chased them from the business, police reported.
Neighbor handcuffs, detains would-be-burglars at gunpoint.  Many neighbors said this has brought them even closer.  "You have all this stuff that happens in the neighborhoods in Houston, where people are getting shot and killed and raped and murdered.  We're not having it," said neighbor Suzanne Lumus.
Big Lake men subdue serial burglar.  A bail-jumping burglar may be feeling lucky at the possibility of spending the next several decades in jail after an armed confrontation that nearly left him shot.  Joshua Beaty, 25, was in the process of robbing the Big Lake area home of James Conner Oct. 26 when Conner and a couple of his friends caught Beaty in the act.
Fruit vendor grateful after customer shoots gunman.  A South Florida fruit vendor is speaking out with words of gratitude for a customer who stepped in after someone tried to mug him.  Blood stains and crime scene tape remain on the sidewalk marking the spot of the near-fatal confrontation that occurred Tuesday afternoon [11/27/2012].
Retired Marine Shoots Home Intruder During Break-In.  If you're a thief, there are a couple of warning signs that you should watch out for.  A dog bowl and a leash in the front yard would tip you off that you're probably going to get bitten.  A sign that reads, "Trespassers will be shot!" is pretty self-explanatory.  The home of 77-year-old Lloyd McCarty is similarly filled with warning signs.
Home Invader Shot in Boardman, Ohio.  Officers said one of the suspects, Keemoni Harris, 22, of Campbell, and the homeowner, James Truman Sr., exchanged gunfire, firing about five shots.  Truman wasn't hit, but officials said Harris went to the hospital with three non-life threatening gun shot wounds.
Man Shoots Intruder in Santa Maria.  An unidentified intruder was shot Sunday evening [12/9/2012] in Santa Maria when he knocked on a homeowner's door and brandished a gun.
Santa Maria man recovering in hospital after shooting.  Police say when the homeowner answered the door, the man outside threatened the him with a gun.  Police say the homeowner also had a gun and shot the man at the door several times.
Owasso homeowner shoots, kills intruder.  An investigation is underway after an Owasso homeowner shoots and kills a man that Owasso Police say was breaking into his home.
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Mass Killings Stopped by Armed Citizens.  There are several documented cases where armed citizens have stopped mass attacks by gunmen.  Let me list a few:  The Pearl, Mississippi school shooting was stopped by the vice principal Joel Myrick with a Colt .45, The Appalachian School shooting was stopped by two students with handguns.  Both of the above incidents were stopped by the armed citizens threatening the shooter without firing.
"Gun free" zone confirmed.  The Sandy Hook school was a gun-free zone, meaning Mr. Lanza knew that no one could shoot back when he entered the school or the classroom where his mother taught.  The shooting in July in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. was also in a gun-free zone.  Rather than engaging in yet another debate about the Second Amendment, perhaps we should be discussing whether security is enhanced or weakened by not allowing a school to be armed for self defense.
Homeowner shoots intruder near Mulvane.  A 31-year-old burglary suspect is listed in serious but stable condition after he was shot in the chest by a homeowner in rural Mulvane [Kansas].
California Resident Shoots Home Invader.  The resident heard someone remove a screen and break a kitchen window to gain access to his home, so the resident armed himself with a handgun, the sheriff's office said.
Store clerk, would-be robber trade gunshots.  An attempted armed robbery went bad quickly for the gunman Friday night [12/7/2012] when a store clerk pulled out his own weapon and began blasting away.
Sheriff: Armed homeowner walks burglar outside to wait for deputies.  A George County man found himself on the wrong end of a homeowner's gun after allegedly breaking into a home on Crenshaw Road Saturday night.  Sheriff Dean Howell said just after midnight, dispatch received a call from a homeowner who said he was holding a burglar at gunpoint.
Woman Carrying Concealed Weapon At Nail Salon Stops Armed Robbery.  Here in Mass[achusetts] where it's almost impossible for a law abiding citizen to carry a concealed weapon this story would have ended much differently.
Casper Police: Nail salon customer packs heat, gunman leaves.  A gunman retreated from a Casper nail salon last week after realizing one of its customers was packing heat. [...] A witness said the man then reached into his coat pocket and began to take out a silver-colored pistol.  At that moment, a woman who was getting her nails done reached into her purse and got her own firearm.  Police say the man never fully raised the gun and left the building after seeing the customer had her weapon out.
Lesson Of Sandy Hook, Clackamas — Ban Gun-Free Zones.  In the target-rich environment of the Clackamas Town Center two weeks before Christmas, the shooter managed to kill only two people before killing himself.  A far worse tragedy was prevented when he was confronted by a hero named Nick Meli.  As the shooter was having difficulty with his weapon, Meli pulled his and took aim, reluctant to fire lest an innocent bystander be hit.  But he didn't have to pull the trigger:  The shooter fled when confronted, ending his own life before it could be done for him.  We will never know how many lives were saved by an armed citizen that day.
Clackamas Mall shooter killed himself after seeing gun carrier aiming at him.  Nick Meli never shot his gun out of fear of hitting a bystander, but apparently seeing him with his gun was enough for the shooter at Clackamas Mall earlier this month to turn the gun on himself and commit suicide.
Clackamas mall shooter faced shopper with concealed weapon.  Nick Meli is emotionally drained.  The 22-year-old was at Clackamas Town Center with a friend and her baby when a masked man opened fire. [...] "I'm not beating myself up cause I didn't shoot him," said Meli.  "I know after he saw me, I think the last shot he fired was the one he used on himself."
Virtually Unreported: CCW Holder Likely Prevented Larger Clackamas Mall Death Toll.  If certain aspects of stories relating to an incident of gun violence don't fit the template, they usually doesn't get reported at all.  But if such things somehow get some local exposure, they rarely escape into the broader national news environment.
Citizen With Concealed Carry Permit May Have Saved Lives During Oregon Mall Shooting.  The shooting last week at the mall in Clackamas, Oregon has been overshadowed by the tragedy that unfolded Friday morning at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.  In Oregon two innocent human beings lost their lives, but perhaps the carnage would have been worse if not for Nick Meli, who has a concealed carry permit and was in the mall when the gunman opened fire.
Waffle House Robber Killed By Concealed Carry Permit Holder.  I hate to see a kid throw his life away, literally, for whatever could be stolen from a Waffle House, but when you start pointing guns at people and robbing them, you forfeit your right to take in oxygen.  This is especially true if there is someone with a gun pointed at you.
Retired SC Highway Patrol trooper shoots, kills home intruder in Bluffton.  A retired S.C. Highway Patrol trooper shot and killed an intruder after a struggle in his Bluffton home early Wednesday [11/14/2012], according to the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office.  Former trooper Lt. William "Chuck" Wise was attacked by a man attempting to break into his Palmetto Bluff Road home at 2:15 a.m. when Wise fired several shots, striking and killing him, investigators say.  The body of 39-year-old Paul Edward Rowell was found in the main entryway, the Sheriff's Office said.
Homeowner fatally shot attacker, another suspect flees, police say.  A Palm Beach Gardens man was found dead in front of a Holly Hill home Friday night [11/16/2012], and investigators say he is one two suspects that tried to rob the house.
Mystery: Virginia gun violence falls as gun sales soar.  So, who are the people buying all these guns?  That's right, ladies.
12-Year-Old Defends Herself with Gun.  This past Wednesday [10/17/2012] a young 12-year old girl in Bryan County, Oklahoma was able to protect her life when an intruder kicked in her back door and entered her house.  Frantically, she called her mother who advised her to grab their household gun, hide in the closet, and call 911.  The intruder made his way through the house, and as he was opening the door of the closet, the young girl shot him through the closet door.  The intruder left the house and the girl was found unharmed.  The police arrived and took the man into custody.

'I aimed right for his heart'.  A 92-year-old war veteran who shot dead an intruder at his home says he has only one regret — that he didn't shoot the alleged burglar's accomplices.  Earl Jones from Boone County, Kentucky, killed Lloyd (Adam) Maxwell after the intruder broke into his home at 2am on Monday [9/2/2012] with two accomplices.

Armed bystander stops stabbing outside school.  A woman is in critical condition after she was stabbed outside her child's school Tuesday morning. [...] Police say a bystander who happened to be a concealed handgun license holder pulled his weapon and ordered [Roberto] Barron to drop the knife.

Buy a gun.  One thing the national news media will always ignore is the practice of lawful self-defense.  For example, most people are probably not aware of the fact that American citizens use a firearm to defend themselves more than 2.4 million times every year.  That is more than 6,500 times every day.  This means that, each year, firearms are used 60 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives.  Furthermore, of the 2.4 million self-defense cases, more than 192,000 are by women defending themselves against sexual assault.  And in less than eight percent of those occasions is a shot actually fired.  The vast majority of the time (92%), the mere presence of a firearm helps to avert a major crime from occurring.

Gun Owner Saves Cop's Life by Shooting Deranged Gunman!Another Old [Man] Steps In To Save A Life.  This time in Early, Texas.  This was remarkably good shooting by the hero.  He must practice a lot.  If not for his interference others would have died.

65-year-old woman thwarts robbery on jewellery store.  Five armed men who attempted to rob a jewellery store were left scrambling for the door when a 65-year-old woman opened fire on them.  The handgun-wielding thieves, clad in hoodies, were forced to flee Continental Jewelry in Garden Grove, California, after the woman chased after them last week.

What Gun Haters Don't Want You to Know.  The other side of the gun rights argument is that guns save lives.  A 65 year-old female jewelry store owner singlehandedly chased off five masked thugs who were robbing her Greenwich store.  She fired two shots in the air as she ran after them.  They were knocking into each other trying to get out the door.

Gun carrying man ends stabbing spree at Salt Lake grocery store.  A citizen with a gun stopped a knife wielding man as he began stabbing people Thursday evening [7/26/2012] at the downtown Salt Lake City Smith's store.  Police say the suspect purchased a knife inside the store and then turned it into a weapon.  Smith's employee Dorothy Espinoza says, "He pulled it out and stood outside the Smiths in the foyer.  And just started stabbing people and yelling you killed my people.  You killed my people."

Gun Carrying Man Stops Stabbing Spree in Utah.  Another Second Amendment success story:  A man carrying a gun in a Utah grocery store stopped a man that went on a stabbing spree after purchasing the knife in the store.

Salt Lake City Citizen Shows Why Anti-Gun Nuts are Blockheads.  Notice the individuals who took the knife to the stomach and head were not carrying a form of self-defense.  If you can't figure this out, then perhaps you should do the rest of us a favor and skip the voting booth in November.

Two Aurora Shootings: One Widely Known; the Other Ignored.  On April 22 of this year a convicted felon, just out of jail, went to an Aurora, Colorado, church and shot and killed a member of the congregation before being killed himself by a congregant carrying a gun. [...] Because the perpetrator was able to claim only one life before being killed himself by someone carrying a gun and acting in self-defense, it garnered relatively little publicity.

Excellent — concealed-carrier stops an armed robbery.  Ah, sweet justice — drink it in, it always goes down smooth.  There are few things that warm my heart quite so much as watching a lawfully armed citizen give a good lesson to a couple of bad guys who seek to threaten, intimidate, and possibly cause fatal bodily harm to others while undermining the rule of law.  In an Internet cafe in Florida the other night, two armed robbers likely gained a newfound respect for the Second Amendment, the hard way.

71-year-old patron fires on, scares off would-be robbers.  Two men attempted an armed robbery at the Palms Internet Cafe in Florida Friday night [7/13/2012], the Marion County Sheriff's Office reports. [...] 71-year-old patron Samuel Williams drew his own handgun when the two masked men, one with a baseball bat and the other with a hand gun, barged into the Palms.

Surprise! Would-be cafe robbers run into one tough 71-year-old.  Two hooded men, their faces covered, went into a Florida Internet cafe Friday, hefting a baseball bat and toting a handgun.  What they couldn't have expected to encounter was Samuel Williams, a fleet-of-foot senior citizen with a gun.  The two suspects, identified by authorities as DuWayne Henderson and Davis Dawkins, went spinning and running after Williams, 71, dropped to one knee and aimed his .380.

14-year-old Phoenix boy shoots armed intruder.  A 14-year-old boy shot and nearly killed an intruder who broke into his Phoenix home and pulled a gun on him while he was watching his three younger siblings, police said Saturday [6/23/2012].

Teen Stands Ground, Saves Family.  An Arizona 14 year boy shoots and seriously wounds an intruder to his home.  The teen was watching his younger siblings when a woman first rang the door bell, then began pounding on the door.  He realized something was not right and ran upstairs where a gun was stored.  As he returned a male intruder kicked down the door and entered with gun in hand.

Good Girl with Gun Lives, Bad Guy with Knife Dies.  [Sarah] McKinley, who had just lost her husband to lung cancer on Christmas Day, was home with her 3-month-old baby boy on New Year's Eve when two dillweeds decided they were going to break into her casa.  Good Sarah was having none of it. [...] Sarah probably thought that things couldn't get any worse after losing her husband on Christmas Day.  And yet things did get worse.  But, thankfully, she was trained and had a gun.

Man With Concealed Carry Permit Stops Attacker.  An attacker bought the knife inside a local market in Salt Lake City, UT, then stabbed one man in the side of the head and another person in the stomach.  The attack took place in the market parking lot.  A bystander with a concealed carry permit witnessed the attack and stepped in to keep it from escalating.

Georgia Granny Thwarts 2 Would-Be Robbers in Shootout.  Authorities in Georgia say a grandmother foiled a robbery attempt by two armed men by getting into a shootout with them, injuring one man.

'I carry a gun all the time' says woman who thwarted Macon holdup attempt.  Looking at Lulu Campbell's bullet-riddled silver Toyota Tundra, common sense says the 57-year-old grandmother should be dead.  It's impossible to tell how many bullets were fired at 2 a.m. Saturday morning [4/21/2012] on English Avenue, but what started as an armed robbery attempt turned into a full-blown firefight.

Witness: Home invader shot dead on South Side.  A man was shot to death on the front steps of an Englewood home, and a witness said it was a home invasion that was foiled by a man who lives there.

Intruder shot entering home.  There was a bang at the door.  Then a second bang and the door swung open.  An intruder with a handgun had barely come inside the apartment when it happened, recalled the man who lives there.  The intruder pointed the gun at him, he said, so he grabbed his own handgun and fired at least twice.

Homeowners With Guns Fight Back.  In the wake of two home invasions in three days, some metro area homeowners, fed up with violence are willing to risk it all and fight back bad guys.  Monday [4/9/2012], a Kansas City woman, scared for her life, shot and killed a 17-year-old armed intruder.

Another NYC shooting death that doesn't fit the MSM Narrative.  A 48-year old retired NYC police lieutenant is being heralded as a hero for shooting down a would-be armed robber, but you won't hear much about this story from the MSM because it doesn't fit the "Trayvon Martin" narrative.  The New York Post reported Friday [4/13/2012] that two men attempted to rob a drug store at gun point looking for cash and expensive prescription drugs.  What they got was more than they bargained for.

Gun owners are not to blame.  Last year, in Gwinnett County, Ga., a woman in her early 50s was getting out of the shower when the bathroom lights suddenly went out.  As she stepped out into the dark, a man slammed her onto the tile floor.  Injured but still conscious, she tried to fight him off when she felt a blade against her throat.  During the attempted sexual assault that followed, the woman managed to break free and retrieve the .22-caliber pistol she kept in the bedroom.  She shot her intruder several times, killing him.

Intruder stopped for snack before fatal shooting.  A homeowner fatally shot a would-be robber who entered his house in Springville early Thursday morning [3/1/2012].  The intruder apparently stopped for a snack and changed clothes before going upstairs to threaten the home's residents.

Detroit: With Fewer Police and Rising Crime, "Justifiable Homicides" Soar.  Living in a city with a substantially diminished police force, a growing number of the residents of Detroit, Michigan, have decided that they can take a "bite out of crime" all on their own, and are using firearms in self-defense to protect themselves from the burgeoning ranks of violent criminals.

Detroit citizens no longer rely on police as self-defense killings skyrocket.911 is a Joke.  Justifiable homicide in the city [of Detroit] shot up 79 percent in 2011 from the previous year, as citizens in the long-suffering city armed themselves and took matters into their own hands.  The local rate of self-defense killings now stands 2,200 percent above the national average.  Residents, unable to rely on a dwindling police force to keep them safe, are fighting back against the criminal scourge on their own.  And they're offering no apologies. ... The last time [Detroit resident Julia] Brown, 73, called the Detroit police, they didn't show up until the next day.

National Guardsman thwarts Red Line robbery; 3 teens arrested.  Three teens who attempted to rob a judo instructor with a replica gun at a CTA station got more than they bargained for, police say.  It wasn't the judo teacher who taught them a lesson, authorities say, but an Army National Guardsman armed with a real gun.

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Oklahoma Woman Shoots, Kills Intruder.  A young Oklahoma mother shot and killed an intruder to protect her 3-month-old baby on New Year's Eve, less than a week after the baby's father died of cancer.

Mother With a Gun.  If the National Rifle Association had an award for Mother of the Year, it might already have a winner.  When two men began to break into her home on New Year's Eve, Sarah Dawn McKinley of Blanchard, Okla., popped a bottle into her crying three-month-old baby's mouth and reached for her guns.

Antioch man answered burglar's knife with gun.  An alleged burglar was shot dead by the owner of a vacant Antioch home after the suspect threatened him with a knife, police said Monday [11/7/2011].

Armed pizza deliveryman shoots, wounds would-be robber.  A Papa John's Pizza delivery driver told police that he drew his own handgun and shot a gunman who tried to rob him Thursday night [11/3/2011] in southeast Memphis. ... Only eight months before and about three miles west, another Papa John's driver, 56-year-old Ron Brake, was fatally wounded during a robbery after delivering pizza at an apartment complex in Hickory Hill.

Developer with shotgun scared off Oakland rioters.  Oakland developer Phil Tagami is used to working behind the scenes to broker some of the biggest deals in town.  Late Wednesday [11/2/2011], he was using different persuasive skills — holding a loaded shotgun to scare away rioters trying to get into a downtown building.

Clerk at Del's 24 Hour shop shoots, kills would-be robber who grabbed child.  A clerk at a landmark East Naples corner store shot and killed a man Tuesday [10/18/2011] as he attempted to rob the family-run shop and flee with her 1-year-old daughter.

Victim shoots robbery suspect in Applebee's parking lot.  Authorities say a would-be victim pulled a gun and shot a man who tried to rob him in a restaurant parking lot in St. Petersburg.

Johnson City homeowner shoots intruder in chest, police say.  "This case involving the home invasion and home owner shooting the intruder appears to be justified; however (Johnson City Police Department) will submit this case to the district attorney and present the facts to a grand jury in Blanco County," Police Chief Randy Holland said.  "I can only hope and pray that would-be criminals everywhere are deterred by this incident."

West Virginia 72-Year-Old Repels Home Invasion.  At noon Saturday [7/23/2011], 72 year old Menuard Frazier's home was invaded by three men who beat him and tied him up while they robbed his residence.  According to WSAZ, the three men knocked and asked the retiree to use the phone.  As he led them to the kitchen, they jumped him, tied his legs up and put a sheet over his head.

Hotel clerk kills Orangeburg robber.  A small woman in her 50s working as a hotel clerk at a Columbia area Days Inn shot and killed a robber "more than double her size" Monday morning [7/25/2011], Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said.  The man, Vincent Carson, 43, of Orangeburg, had held a knife to her throat, put the knife down and was apparently going to tie her up and sexually assault her, Lott said.

Congressman Boswell fights off armed intruder at Iowa farm house.  A home invasion at Rep. Leonard Boswell's Iowa farm ended when his 22-year-old grandson fetched a shotgun and aimed it at the intruder, according to a statement from the congressman's office.  No one was seriously injured.

Woman: 'I shot him as much as I could'.  The crying woman told a 911 operator she "shot him as much as I could" and moments later police found her would-be attacker dead in the back yard of her Gwinnett County home.  The woman was getting out of the shower when 34-year-old Israel Perez Puentes, armed with a knife, dragged her to the bedroom where he planned to rape her, police said.

Police ID slain home invasion suspect.  The man who police say was killed by a homeowner during an attempted sexual assault was identified Thursday [5/11/2011] as Israel Perez Puentes, 34, of Alpharetta.  A Gwinnett County woman shot and killed Puentes Wednesday morning after the knife-wielding man attacked her in the shower, police said.

3rd suspect turns himself in after homeowner kills intruder.  Cecil Barwick was home alone inside his Stony Landing home Wednesday morning [4/13/2011] when police say he heard voices and footsteps from upstairs.  The 50-year-old man grabbed his handgun and quickly came face to face with one of the men who broke into his house and had been rifling through his belongings upstairs.

NOPD: N.O. Woman Kills Armed Home Intruder.  The NOPD is investigating the fatal shooting of man they describe as an "armed home intruder." ... According to investigators, 21-year-old Melvin Plummer of Marrero entered a house occupied by a 30-year-old woman and her three children and brandished a handgun.  The woman, who has a concealed weapons permit, pulled a gun and shot Plummer multiple times.

Owner kills 3 robbers in jewelry store shootout.  In the back room of a humble jewelry store and pawn shop in Houston's East End Thursday afternoon [12/16/2010], a gunman tied Eva Castillo's wrists tightly — too tightly.  She complained of the pain, so he loosened the bindings.  Then Castillo's husband was ordered at gunpoint to put his hands behind his back.  But Ramon Castillo had a surprise for the gunman and two cohorts, who had announced they were robbing the business.  Castillo pulled a pistol from his waistband and shot the gunman dead.

Robbery Suspect Charged With Murder After Alleged Accomplices Killed by Homeowner.  Three young black men break into a white man's home in rural Northern California.  The homeowner shoots two of them to death — but it's the surviving black man who is charged with murder.

Pistol-packing Ala. grandmother shoots intruder in bedroom.  Police say 69-year-old Ethel Jones shot 18-year-old Michael O'Neal Bynum in the abdomen when she said she found him inside her bedroom.

Robbers pick wrong target; two shot, one killed by gun-toting victim.  Two would-be robbers forgot to ask their victim a key question:  Do you have a gun and know how to use it? ... The man, who works for a local gun range, declined comment Friday [7/2/2010].  He asked that his name not be published because authorities told him the attempted robbery may be gang-related.

Victim had just fixed meal when he was assaulted and stabbed.
"If I'd had a trigger lock, I'd be dead."

Check out the Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog.  Where Clayton Cramer and Pete Drum keep track of civilians using guns in self-defense.

Somewhat related:The Gun I Didn't Have.  The most street-wise punk knows it is stupid to bring a knife to a gunfight.  I followed the laws, stayed legal, and left my guns at home when I came here.  The gun regulations of our nation's capitol put me face to face with a criminal who ignores the laws.  Law enforcement was not there to protect me and the rules I followed stole my right to protect myself.  Where's the justice in that?

Robbery victim fights back, kills robber.  Hazelwood police said a robbery victim, in his 50's, opened fire on and killed a would-be robber Tuesday night.  The shooting happened at the intersection of Dunn and Cortena Roads around 8:40 p.m Tuesday [5/4/2010].  Chief Carl Wolf said the would-be robber walked up behind the man on the street and tried to rob him.

Wife of 80-year-old who shot intruder: 'He saved our lives'.  The intruder — who police said wore stockings over his hands to keep from leaving prints — wiggled the brass doorknob of the locked door that led to the first-floor apartment, but it didn't open, the family said.  He then turned to the oversized glass window of the 80-year-old's bedroom, pulled out his gun and shot, police and family said.  But just as the man got off a second round, the homeowner, who had a handgun of his own, fired a single shot, killing the intruder, a police source said.

Man, 80, 'did what he had to do,' killing home invader.  An 80-year-old Army veteran shot and killed an armed man who'd broken in to the two-flat where he and his wife live in East Garfield Park early this morning and fired at him.  He did what his son said "he had to do" after having vowed not to be victimized again following a robbery months earlier.

A Gun For Grandpa.  Chicago is deciding whether to prosecute a great-grandfather and Korean War veteran under its handgun ban.  He refused to be a victim, and now there's one less armed thug roaming the streets.  What's the problem?

Criminals aren't only ones ignoring city handgun ban.  When police caught up to a fleeing drug suspect early Thursday [6/3/2010], they had little problem arresting him.  They found him in a private home he had entered, wounded in the chest by a resident with a handgun.  The shooting occurred about a week after an 80-year-old Army veteran used a handgun to shoot and kill an armed burglar who had broken into his home.  In both cases, the weapons violated the city's 28-year-old handgun ban, but police so far have declined to press charges.

The Editor says...If these Chicago residents had complied with the handgun ban, they would probably be dead.

73-year-old collars intruder at Spartanburg home.  "When I jacked that round in the chamber, he sat down and was holding onto the rail," Easler said.  "I know he was scared.  "I told him, You do anything sudden, you're liable to end up dead.'"  The man complied, and Easler held him at gunpoint in a bathroom off the kitchen until deputies from the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office arrived about 10 minutes later.

Homeowner fatally shoots burglary suspect.  A homeowner shot and killed a suspected burglar who came at him with a tire iron Tuesday [7/28/2009] after breaking into a storage shed on the man's property in east Harris County, officals said.  Although the shooting will be referred to a Harris County grand jury, investigators said it appears to be self-defense.

Woman, 70, who killed intruder at motel feels sick about shooting.  The 70-year-old woman who shot a would-be robber at a North Side motel last night is attending the All-American Quarter Horse Congress today and feels sick about the shooting, according to her son.

Naked Man, 91, Holds Drunken Intruder at Gunpoint.  Authorities said a naked 91-year-old man was able to hold a drunken intruder at gunpoint until deputies arrived.

Texas Resident Shot and Killed 2 Teenagers During Home Invasion.  Police in Texas say a group of teenagers were trying to break into a home when a resident opened fire and killed two of the youths.  San Marcos Police Chief Howard Williams says the shootings happened shortly before 2 a.m. Friday [9/4/2009].  He says two 16-year-olds died and a third teenager was seriously wounded.

Pregnant woman holds intruder at gun point.  The lesson here is never threaten an expecting mother, especially if she's armed with a shotgun.  "I was angry," Randi Fairley says.  "I was really mad that he was in my house."

Business Owner Fires on 4 Robbers, Killing 2, Police Say.  A 72-year-old Harlem business owner used a shotgun to blast four men who tried to rob his restaurant-supply business Thursday afternoon, killing two and sending two others to the hospital with gunshot wounds, the New York City police said.

Detroit mugger critical after victim retaliates.  A 32-year-old suffered a graze wound to the head but seriously injured a 17-year-old trying to rob him at gunpoint in Detroit early today [8/25/2009], according to police.  The intended robbery victim, who has a permit to carry a weapon, pulled out his gun when he was confronted...

Concealed Carry Permits Are Life Savers.  In research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, in which almost 2,000 felons were interviewed, 34% of felons said they had been "scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim" and 40% of these criminals admitted that they had been deterred from committing a crime out of fear that the potential victim was armed.  Allowing law-abiding people to arm themselves offers more than piece of mind for those individuals — it pays off for everybody through lower crime rates.

Wellington teacher fatally shoots armed intruder, PBSO says.  One man is dead and a couple is left shaken after a home-invasion robbery turned deadly early Monday [2/16/2009].  The intruder wound up dead after he was shot by Heath Miller, 34, a popular music teacher at Howell L. Watkins MIddle School.  The dead man is identified as Robert Rishard Tomlin, 22.

Farmer's daughter disarms terrorist and shoots him dead with AK47.  An Indian farmer's daughter disarmed a terrorist leader who broke into her home, attacked him with an axe and shot him dead with his own gun.

Guns Are Still Saving Lives.  On June 30, 2002, two Iowa youths escaped from a school for troubled teenagers.  For twelve hours, they terrorized the Woods community, stealing four automobiles and managing to evade capture by police.  According to the Rapid City Journal, Pete Paul Fast Horse and Jeremy Feltman were in a stolen Ford four-wheel-drive when they "sped through an intersection and crashed into an embankment."  They then fled on foot from pursuing police and approached the house of Sena Lauritzen.  When the 55-year-old grandmother saw the fugitives attempting to enter her house through a patio door, she grabbed a shotgun and held them until police arrived.  "This is my little bit of heaven," she said after the incident.  "They had no right to invade it."

Child shoots intruder during home break-in.  A ten-year-old boy left home alone with his sister used his mother's gun to shoot an intruder in the face, police said.  Late Tuesday, West Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies received a call to a Port Allen apartment complex after several shots rang out from inside one of the apartments.

Ambushed pizza man kills attacker.  Three men charged in the attempted pizza robbery Saturday [3/7/2009] had their bond set this morning at $250,000 each by Magistrate Brian Jeffcoat. ... Each is charged with criminal conspiracy and strong armed robbery of Pizza Hut delivery man Christopher Steven Miller, 43.  Miller shot and killed one of the assailants who attacked him when he attempted to deliver a pizza to a house on Avery Place Lane near Irmo High School.

Pizza man says fear he'd die led to shooting.  A pizza deliveryman, who said Monday he has been held up twice before, fired shots that killed a teenager during a holdup because he feared he would die and not see his wife and 5-year-old daughter again.  "I believe everyone has the right to defend themselves if their lives are threatened," Christopher Miller, 43, said in a statement issued through police.

Cops: Cape Girardeau woman kills man who returned to rape her second time.  An intended rape victim shot and killed her attacker this morning [10/31/2008] in Cape Girardeau when he broke into her home to rape her a second time, police said.  The 57-year-old woman shot RonnieW. Preyer, 47, a registered sex offender, in the chest with a shotgun when he broke through her locked basement door.  The woman told police he was the same man who raped her several days earlier.

Crime-fighting's future merely a guy with a gun.  Chris is an Ocoee [Florida] man who keeps a .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol in his glove box.  Last week, while shopping at his favorite Kangaroo Express, he used it.  Chris had stopped there for a pack of smokes and a slice of pizza with the clerk.  While leaving, he noticed a man casing the joint.

Tables Turned on Intruder During Home Invasion.  The tables turned on a burglar when a homeowner took matters into his own hands. … The pregnant woman inside the home was getting ready to give her 18-month-old child a bath when she heard noises.

Robbed twice, San Pablo shop owner was ready to shoot.  Amariae Sanders was a 16-year-old boy who may have thought a San Pablo gift shop would be an easy mark.  But when he vaulted the counter while armed with a sawed-off shotgun, he had no way of knowing that the store owner would fight back, police say.

Man who threatened Christians may lose eye.  A man who came to the home of two women whom he had threatened to decapitate with a knife received a blow to the head that could cost him an eye, according to Colorado Springs police.  Russell Bowman, who claims to be an atheist, threatened the women because they are Christian on Sept. 8.  On Friday [9/12/2008], he arrived at their apartment and stood in a hallway, according to a police report.

Elderly Woman Grabs Gun, Holds Would-Be Burglar At Bay.  An 85-year-old great-grandmother from Lake Lynn, Fayette County kept an alleged burglar at bay using a .22-caliber pistol.  According to police, a 17-year-old suspect was attempting to burglarize Leda Smith overnight.  That's when Smith grabbed her gun and told the teen that she would shoot him if he moved, police said.

Robbery ends when employee pulls out a gun.  Two men tried to rob an Old Hickory Sonic restaurant, but an assistant manager pulled out a gun and fired shots, causing the suspects to flee.  Police believe that one or both of the suspects was wounded.  Metro police Capt. Michele Donegan said that at approximately 10:30 p.m. Thursday [7/3/2008], two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, went inside the Sonic at 1410 Robinson Road, in Old Hickory [Tennessee].

Customer pulls gun, stops robbery.  It was a busy night Monday at Buck's IGA on the 3000 block of South Meridian Street.  "Charlie," who didn't want his image or name used with this story, was in line to check out.  A man police later identified as Dwain Smith reportedly ran into the store wearing a ski mask and yelling.

Man Cleared for Killing Neighbor's Burglars.  A Texas man who shot and killed two men he believed to be burglarizing his neighbor's home won't be going to trial.  A grand jury today failed to indict Joe Horn, a 61-year-old computer technician who lives in an affluent subdivision in Pasadena, Texas.

Joe Horn cleared by grand jury in Pasadena shootings.  The shooting of two burglary suspects has sparked heated debate about property rights, gun control and other issues.  A Harris County grand jury decided today that Joe Horn should not be charged with a crime for shooting two suspected burglars he confronted outside his neighbor's home in Pasadena last fall.  The decision to clear Horn of wrongdoing came two weeks after the grand jury began considering evidence in the case, including Horn's testimony last week.

'I wouldn't be here' if not for gun.  Glen Soustek knows a handgun saved his life.  "If it weren't for my gun, I wouldn't be here," he said.  "The last the world would have heard about me would be a blurb on Page 8:  'Coin shop owner shot dead in backroom.'"

Right to carry v. right to know:  In a St. Louis suburb this week, Riccardo Crossland was charged with robbery and assault after he and another thug held a 23-year-old Florida man at gunpoint, demanding his money.  After obtaining his wallet and watch, Crossland turned and took a few steps away from the robbery victim, then turned back and raised his weapon.  Unfortunately for Crossland, the man he was robbing was legally permitted to carry a concealed handgun — and was carrying one at the time.

'Gun-free' school zones?  What do felons think about an armed citizenry?  A survey of convicted felons by the National Institute of Justice found 74 percent of the felons agreed that, "One reason burglars avoid houses when people are home is that they fear being shot during the crime."  The survey also asked these felons whether they had abandoned at least one crime because they feared the intended victim might be armed.

Homeowner Shoots Teen Suspect During Home Invasion.  A 16-year-old home invasion suspect is recovering from gunshot wounds after a Union City man said the teen kicked in the back door of his townhome Saturday [6/21/2008].  The 28-year-old homeowner said the teen rang the doorbell, but when no one answered, the suspect went around to the back of the townhouse.  Police said the resident got his gun and shot the teen in the shoulder after the suspect kicked in the back door and entered the home.

80-year-old puts attacker in hospital.  Investigators say they were definitely going to rob him — possibly even kill him.  But an 80-year-old North Texan wasn't about to let that happen, so he took action. … In short, even at 80, he is someone you just don't mess with.  What the men didn't know is [James] Picket had taken a pistol and put it in his pocket before opening the door.

80-Year-Old Man Shoots, Beats Up Attackers.  James Picket may be 80, but he's no pushover.  The North Texas man proved that when a couple of guys up to no good knocked on his door last weekend and tried to mess with him.

Wayne Homeowner Kills Intruder.  Three armed men broke into the home at 2546 Old Mount Olive Highway at about 12:30 a.m. while the family slept inside.  The intruders held two adults and four children, ages 4, 5 and 8, at gunpoint and ransacked the house, authorities said.  During the robbery, one of the suspects fired a shot, prompting the man who lives in the house to grab a gun and shoot back, authorities said.

Resident Shoots and Kills Home Invader.  A Phoenix homeowner shot and killed a home invader who had kicked in the front door of the house and was attempting to break into the bedroom where he and his family were sleeping, Phoenix police said.

Wife produces 9mm and husband opens fire.Couple at East Dallas cleaners work together to foil, kill robber.  Customers picking up pants and shirts pulled up beside a large bloodstain Monday in the parking lot of Joe's Cleaners.  Asked to describe his lethal encounter with a robber a few hours earlier, owner Joseph Baggett apologized for saying little.

Gunshots deter break-ins.  There were similarities in two attempted burglaries in Jackson on Friday [9/28/2007].  The residents of both homes were watching television when the alleged suspects were caught in the act.  And in both cases, the suspects were fired on.

Suspected burglar fatally shot at Harris County home. A southwest Harris County homeowner shot and killed a man he discovered climbing into a window of his house at about 2:15 a.m. today, investigators said.  Steven Dunbar, who apparently lived several blocks away, died in the window of the home in the 3400 block of Cascadia, Harris County sheriff's homicide Det. Rolf Nelson said.

Fort Lauderdale jeweler shoots two gunmen.  A jewelry store owner critically wounded two armed men in a shootout Wednesday [5/9/2007] after the pair tried to rob his shop, police said. … A police spokeswoman said it is unlikely that store owner Hugo Villalta, whose gun is licensed, will face any charges.

Teen shot by Houston homeowner in alleged break-in.  After a sleepless night, [Bob] Manross said that the pistol-carrying teen broke into his home, called him by his first name and threatened to shoot him unless he handed over his cash.  Manross said he fooled the invader, whom he recognized. "I told him I didn't have the money with me but I'd get it from the other room," said Manross, who had a loaded rifle just a room away from his kitchen.

Intruder with sledgehammer is shot and killed.  Jamie Buck was asleep early Friday when a sledgehammer shattered his side door's window and a stranger burst into his rented home, demanding money or jewelry.  That was the last demand would ever make.  Brandenburg, 31, was shot to death inside Buck's Bishop Avenue home early Friday, seven weeks after Brandenburg's latest release from jail.

Would-be robbers outgunned at LaFollette home.  Two Campbell County [Tennessee] men toting a pellet gun picked the wrong house to rob Tuesday night [1/9/2007] when the homeowner grabbed a pistol and opened fire, authorities said.  "They brought a BB gun to a real gunfight," LaFollette Police Department Detective Jeff Allen said.

Chicks Carrying Guns and Kicking Tail.  Over the past couple weeks, there have been a couple stories floating around that just warmed my little heart, but they didn't get a lot of attention, so I have decided to give them plenty.  Do you wonder what kind of story it takes to warm my cold, conservative heart?  Well, wonder no longer.

Chicks With Guns, Part II.  I got more mail from last week's column than any of my others — some from grandmas, some from single gals, some from shooting instructors.  I got new stories, weapon recommendations, invitations to the shooting range.

Police:  Homeowner Shoots Burglary Suspect.  A man accused of breaking into a Daytona Beach home was shot by the homeowner Tuesday night, according to police.  Thomas Lockhart, 28, is in critical condition at Halifax Medical Center after being shot just after 10 p.m. at a house on Orange Avenue in Daytona Beach.  Police said they responded to a 911 call from Walter Watson, 70, whose house had already been burglarized three times this week, and found Lockhart suffering from a gunshot wound.

Tennessee Carjacker Picks the Wrong Guy To Assault:  A man who turned the tables and fatally shot a would-be carjacker in Nashville deserves a "good citizenship" award for fighting crime, according to a national gun advocacy group.

74-year-old shoots intruder.  Willie Brown said he thought he was back in a foxhole in Korea on Thursday morning [6/15/2006] when a burglar stood at the door to Brown's bedroom.  "He said, 'I got a knife, don't move,'" Brown recalled.  "I reached behind my back and whipped my gun from under my pillow and said, 'Take this .38,' and I blasted him."

Guns Save Lives.  Such a large number of defensive gun uses poses a problem for gun control activists.  When guns are widely used for self-defense, legislation that makes using them more difficult, like safe storage, trigger locks, and outright bans, just condemns more people to being beaten, robbed, raped, and murdered.  This happened in Britain, where rates of violent crime, gun robbery and murder skyrocketed after handguns were banned and registered owners were required to surrender their weapons.

John Stossel / ABC News Explode Gun Control Myth:  Interviewing a group of prison inmates, John Stossel reports, "Some maximum security felons I spoke to in New Jersey scoffed at measures like the Brady law.  They said they'll have no trouble getting guns if they want them.  A Justice Department study confirmed what the prisoners said.  But get this:  the felons say that the thing they fear the most is not the police, not time in prison, but, you, another American who might be armed."

Surviving Home Invasions:  "People who defend themselves in a home invasion fare better than those who don't.  That's just how it is."  A collection of news reports of home invasions, anecdotal evidence for the effective use of guns in self-defense.

11-year-old shoots, kills assailant threatening his grandmother:  When Tony D. Murry held a box cutter to Sue Gay’s neck Monday night, Gay’s 11-year-old adopted son ran upstairs and grabbed a gun.

Florida Dad shoots intruders to save daughter and himself:  Semiautomatic gun under pillow foils attempted robbery in hotel room.

104 cases of lives being saved through the lawful use of guns.  You will rarely - if ever - hear stories like this on the television news.

Symbolic Pics of the Month (02/13)

In this edition of SPOTM: Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Rihanna and a whole lot of MK-Themed fashion. (I know, I did state last month that the SPOTM series of articles was over. I however realized that I wanted to discuss about a bunch of pics, so there you go).

Taylor Swift’s Grammy performance was one, big, nightmarish tribute to an MK-Ultra favorite: Alice in Wonderland. The music industry apparently never EVER tires of referring to it. In this pic, we see Taylor and the White Rabbit – as in “follow the White Rabbit through the looking glass”, a trigger phrase to encourage dissociation in Mind Control.

The performance featured a whole lot of dualistic black and white patterns – widely used in Mind Control.  Here we see a poor guy being tortured on a hypnotic-patterned wheel. MK Galore.

There was also a guy with a one-eye thing going on (at the right of the pic) and a puppet being controlled by a giant “handler”. Yup, MK galore.

Carrie Underwood’s performance ended with a bunch of Monarch butterflies leaving her dress – the ultimate symbol for Monarch Programming. The song she was performing, Blown Away, is about her killing an abusive father – something that can refer to the concepts of trauma-based MK and dissociation. The music video of the song also subtly refers to The Wizard of Oz (an MK programming tool).

 

Rihanna was all over Grammys this year. Here she is on the February 14th issue of Rolling Stone magazine giving the “one-eyed salute”.

Ed Sheeran sang with Elton John in the Grammys. And here’s a pic of him, doing something he didn’t really need to do.

Justin Timberlake: All over the Grammys. Here’s his new album cover featuring a clever way of displaying the one-eyed sign.

Speaking of which, here’s a commercial for Swarovsky featuring the one-eye sign.

Another ad features a mask, an important symbol of Mind Control.

The fashion set “in 0 sense” features a lot of MK-related symbolism. Even this title page has a bunch of butterflies, which can hint to Monarch programming.

The “models” of the set are actually an amalgamation of many different women ; eyes from one, lips from another, etc.. The result is rather creepy but it somewhat goes perfectly with the theme of Mind Control and its dehumanization techniques…And this girl has Baphomet horns as a hairdo.

In this image, the girl has a typewriter on her chest. If one would type of on it, the letters would hit the model right on her mouth. Is she an MK-slave being told what to say? Also, notice the skulls around or nose missing – symbolizing death and the lost of power. Of course, one of the model’s eyes is hidden.

Another “staple” in MK symbolism is Mickey Mouse ears (a reference to Mickey Mouse programming) and boy are they used in mass media. Here’s Carly Rae Jepsen sporting them.

Former child star Dakota Fanning on the cover of Glamour.

Chloe Moretz in Teen Vogue, wearing Mickey Mouse ears – but not  really feeling in a playful mood.

In the same photoshoot, Moretz sports a cap saying “Brainwash” and an All-Seeing Eye, which kind of complements the Mickey Programming reference.

This ad for SHS features a flirty girl being literally mind controlled by a little horned evil guy. That’s a pretty clear reference to Sex Kitten Programming.

There is also a “male” version of the ad, where a young guy appears to be about to prostitute himself to an old(er) woman…And these ads are aimed at young people. Why??

In the movie Les Miserables, the symbol of the All-Seeing Eye (cleverly placed on the sign of an optician) appears in a prominent fashion in the scenes where the revolution was brewing. In some scenes (not pictured here), the eye is actually more prominent than the actors. Considering the fact that the Bavarian Illuminati was an important factor in the French Revolution, the presence of this symbol is rather appropriate and a reminder of what truly went on in those days – for those in the know.

A strange pic posted on Beyonce’s Instagram. It could refer to something as trivial as a bad relationship…or to the very dark side of taking an oath for fame and fortune with the music industry.

Obama’s Expanding Kill List — Paul Craig Roberts

Prosecutors always expand laws far beyond their intent. Attorneys in civil cases do the same. For example, the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was passed in order to make it easier for the government to convict members of the Mafia. However, the law, despite its intent, was quickly expanded by prosecutors and attorneys and used in cases against pro-life activists, Catholic bishops, corporations accused of hiring illegal immigrants, and in divorce cases. “Junk bond king” Michael Milken, a person with no ties to organized crime, was threatened with indictment under the RICO Act. Prosecutors have found that the asset freeze provision in the Act is a convenient way to prevent a defendant from being able to pay attorneys and, therefore, makes it easier for prosecutors to coerce innocent defendants into a guilty plea.
We are now witnessing the expansion of Obama’s Kill List. The list began under the Bush regime as a rationale for murdering suspect citizens of countries with which the US was not at war. The Obama regime expanded the scope of the list to include the execution, without due process of law, of US citizens accused, without evidence presented in court, of association with terrorism. The list quickly expanded to include the American teen-age son of a cleric accused of preaching jihad against the West. The son’s “association” with terrorism apparently was his blood relationship to his father.

As Glenn Greenwald recently wrote, the power of government to imprison and to murder its citizens without due process of law is the certain mark of dictatorship. Dictatorship is government unconstrained by law. On February 10 the Wall Street Journal revealed that the Obama dictatorship now intends to expand the Kill List to include those accused of acting against foreign governments. Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an “Algerian militant” accused of planning the January attack on an Algerian natural gas facility, has been chosen as the threat that is being used to expand Obama’s Kill List to include participants in the internal disputes and civil wars of every country.

If the Obama regime is on the side of the government, as in Algeria, it will kill the rebels opposing the government. If the Obama regime is on the side of the rebels, as in Libya, it will kill the government’s leaders. Whether Washington sends a drone to murder Putin and the president of China remains to be seen. But don’t be surprised if Washington has targeted the president of Iran.

The elasticity of the Kill List and its easy expansion makes it certain that Washington will be involved in extra-judicial executions of those “associated with terrorism” over much of the world. Americans themselves should be alarmed, because the term “association with terrorism” is very elastic. Federal prosecutors have interpreted the term to include charitable contributions to Palestinians.

The next time former US Representative Cynthia McKinney gets on an aid ship to Palestine, will Washington give the green light to Israel to kill her as a terrorist agent for her association with aid to Gaza, ruled by the “terrorist organization,” Hamas?

Already a year or two ago, the director of Homeland Security said that the federal police agency’s focus had shifted from terrorists to “domestic extremists,” another elastic and undefined term. A domestic extremist will be all who disagree with Washington. They also are headed for the Kill List.

Where is the government going with this? The most likely outcome is that everyone disliked or distrusted by those who have the power to add to the Kill List will find themselves on the list. The government can expand the Kill List beyond the original intent as easily as the RICO Act was expanded beyond its original intent.
As the Founding Fathers knew and the American people have forgot, no one is safe in a dictatorship.

Clearly, the American public lacks sufficient comprehension to remain a free people. All indications are that the large majority of Americans fear alleged terrorists in distant lands more than they fear their government’s acquisition of dictatorial powers over them–powers that allow government to place itself above the law and to be unaccountable to law. This is despite the fact that 99.999% of all Americans will never, ever, experience any terrorism except that of their own government.

According to a recent poll of registered American voters, 75% approve of Washington’s assassination of foreign citizens abroad based on suspicion that they might be terrorists, despite the fact that the vast majority of the Gitmo detainees, declared by the US government to be the most dangerous men on earth, turned out to be totally innocent. Only 13% of registered voters disapprove of the extra-judicial murders carried out by Washington against foreign citizens, whether based on wrong intelligence, hearsay, or actual deeds. http://www.ahherald.com/newsbrief-mainmenu-2/monmouth-county-news/14849-public-says-its-illegal-to-target-americans-abroad-as-some-question-cia-drone-attacks

Registered voters have a different view of the extra-judicial murder of US citizens. In what the rest of the world will see as further evidence of American double-standards, 48% believe it is illegal for Washington to murder US citizens without due process of law. However, 24% agree with the Obama regime that it is permissible for the government to murder its own citizens on accusation alone without trial and conviction of a capital crime. As The Onion put it, “24% of citizens were unequivocally in favor of being obliterated at any point, for any reason, in a massive airstrike.” http://www.theonion.com/articles/american-citizens-split-on-doj-memo-authorizing-go,31207/

Are we to be reassured or alarmed that 24% of registered voters believe that the terrorist threat is so great that suspicion alone without evidence, trial, and conviction is sufficient for Washington to terminate US citizens? Should not we be disturbed that a quarter of registered voters, despite overwhelming evidence that Washington’s wars are based on conscious lies–”weapons of mass destruction,” “Al-Qaeda connections”–are still prepared to believe the government’s claim that the person it just murdered was a terrorist? Why are so many Americans willing to believe a proven liar?

If we add up all the costs of the “war on terror,” it is obvious that the costs are many magnitudes greater than the terror threat that the war is alleged to contain. If terrorists were really a threat to Americans, shopping centers and electric substations would be blowing up constantly. Airport security would be a sham, because terrorists would set off the bombs in the crowded lines waiting to clear security. Traffic would be continually tied up from roofing nails dispensed on all main roads in cities across the country for each rush hour. Water supplies would be poisoned. Police stations would be bombed and police officers routinely terminated on the streets. Instead, nothing has happened despite Washington’s killing and displacement of huge numbers of Muslims in seven or eight countries over the past 11 years.

The cost of the “war on terror” is not merely the multi-trillion dollar financial bill documented by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes. The cost of Washington’s wars is the main reason for the large national debt, the threat of which politicians are using to destroy the social safety net. This is a huge cost for a pointless war that pleases Israel and enriches the armament companies but does nothing for Americans.

The financial cost is huge, but how important is this cost compared to another cost–the domestic police state supported by a significant percentage of the population and a majority in Congress and the media? Is the war on terror worth the evisceration of the US Constitution? A war that costs us the Constitution means our total defeat.

The cost in human life has been enormous. Millions of Muslims have been killed, wounded, orphaned, and displaced, and entire countries have been destroyed as socio-political entities. Washington locked Iraq in sectarian murder. Libya has no government, just warring factions, and now Syria is in the process of being disintegrated. The prospects for people’s lives in these countries have been ruined for years to come.

The cost in American lives has also been high. More than 400,000 American lives have been adversely affected by 11 years of pointless war. The deaths of 6,656 US troops, the 50,000 wounded, the 1,700 life-changing limb amputations, and the suicides http://www.globalresearch.ca/record-numbers-of-us-military-and-veteran-suicides/5322544 are just the tip of the iceberg. Since the Bush-Obama wars began, 129,731 US troops have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. And now we learn from a new Congressional Research Service report that more than a quarter million of US troops have experienced Traumatic Brain Injury. Based on current diagnostic capability, three-fourths of the cases are classified as mild. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/cost-of-war/

These lost, ruined and impaired lives affect also the lives of many others–spouses, children, parents, siblings, and those disheartened by their government’s pointless wars who have to care for the damaged. There are many Americans who have been collaterally damaged by Washington’s pointless wars.

Will Americans wake up in time? I wish I could answer, “yes,” but I regret that Americans are an insouciant people. They are unaware. Americans are more concerned with sports events, sales, and which celebrities are sleeping together than they are with their liberty. Washington can create a police state, because there are insufficient citizens with the intelligence, education, and awareness to stop Washington.

Congress has accepted the police state and has given up too much of its power to the executive branch and is too beholden to the special interests that benefit from the police state to do anything about it. Congress is even content for the CIA or the Pentagon, perhaps both, to murder by robot innocent people on the Benthamite presumption that at some future time they might commit a terrorist act. Some US Senators want a cloak of legality for the murders and suggest a secret court to rubber-stamp Obama’s Kill List. CIA nominee director John Brennan reportedly objected to a secret court on the grounds that not all drone murders are retaliation; some victims are murdered for what some executive branch official thinks they might do at some future time, and without evidence the court would have nothing objective to go by.
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/02/10/lawmakers-push-plans-to-advance-drone-strikes/

The federal judiciary has proven to be almost as impotent. Federal judges did not ask federal prosecutors why, in violation of the whistleblower protection laws, they were prosecuting National Security Agency senior executive Thomas Drake for blowing the whistle on the NSA’s illegal spying on US citizens instead of the officials who broke the law and committed felonies. Judges did not ask why CIA agent John Kiriakou was prosecuted for blowing the whistle on the torture program instead of those who committed crimes by authorizing and committing torture. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33894.htm

The innocent and the truth-tellers were prosecuted. The criminals and the liars were not. The federal judges went along with the Justice (sic) Department’s prosecutions of those who obeyed the law and did their duty and non-prosecution of criminals who clearly without any doubt violated the law, trampled upon the US Constitution, and committed felonies.

In a police state it is always the innocent who are the most heavily punished. In his history, The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn explains that in the prison camps, the Soviet equivalent to Guantanamo and the CIA’s secret torture prisons, common criminals such as murderers, rapists, and robbers had a privileged position compared to the political prisoners who mistakenly thought that the Soviet Constitution meant something. It will be the same in Amerika.

The destruction of truth and the law in the US is the legacy of 9/11. Both conservatives and the left-wing have bought into the government’s preposterous story that a few Saudi Arabians, unsupported by any government or intelligence agency, outwitted every institution of the National Security State and inflicted the most humiliating blow against a superpower in human history. They buy into this story despite unequivocal evidence that WTC building 7 came down at free fall speed, an event that can only occur as a result of controlled demolition.

But evidence and expert testimony no longer have authority in the US, which now has its own form of Lysenkoism.

Lysenko was a quack Soviet scientist, a charlatan who successfully persecuted Soviet geneticists for “setting themselves against Marxism” by not having a Marxist theory of genetics. Soviet geneticists were arrested and executed for being “against the people.” Even the world famous Soviet geneticist, Nikolai Vavilov, was arrested and died in prison.

Americans don’t know any more about physics and structural architecture and engineering than the Soviet population and Stalin knew about genetics. Today “Lysenkoism” is used as a metaphor to denote the corruption of science in behalf of a social, political, or ideological purpose.

Lysenko used lies to gain power, just as Ponzi scheme operators use lies to gain wealth. Power is an Aphrodisiac, and everyone in Washington wants it. All indications are that they have it.

Liberty is disappearing before our eyes. http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/02/11/is-obama-already-holding-us-citizens-in-indefinite-detention/

Expect no help from “progressives,” who believe in Obama more than they believe in liberty. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/11/progressives-defend-obama-kill-list