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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.
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. ...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.
Specific cases:
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.
Also posted under violent crime on mass transit.
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.
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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.
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. ...
Specific cases:
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.
Also posted under violent crime on mass transit.
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.
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