Defensive Use of Firearms

Your home has just been burglarized. You were away while it happened so you check your surveillance cameras to get a bead on who it was who took your stuff. Later on, while you’re out driving on the road you suddenly see the suspects pass you in another vehicle. Either way you’re calling the police, but do you wait on law enforcement to arrive before confronting the suspects or do you grab a firearm and pursue them yourself?

Last Saturday 25-year-old Marcus Gould and 20-year-old Leon Roberson attempted to rob a pawn shop in Springdale, Arkansas. However, their plan was foiled when one of the owners of C & S Gun and Pawn pulled out her .38 caliber revolver and opened fire.

A domestic terrorist who had plans of committing mass murder last Friday was stopped dead in his tracks by a Austin police officer who managed to fatally wound the suspect with a handgun from approximately 104 yards.

“I got up to investigative the sound of that noise, carried with me a side arm and when I found the source of the noise there was a gentleman breaking and entering my home at which point I discharged my firearm and the suspect was hit,” said Mr. Dudley, the homeowner.

An Alabama woman shot an accused stalker Saturday night after the man showed up at her house and threatened her, local media reports.

Everytown for Gun Safety wants its members to “talk turkey” about firearms and crime this Thanksgiving. An infographic put out by the Bloomberg-funded organization states, “This Thanksgiving, when talk around the table turns to politics and current events, you can help set the record straight on some of the most common myths about guns.”

An elderly homeowner in Atascocita, Texas, shot two female intruders Wednesday afternoon, leaving them both in critical condition.

Should one treat an armed criminal the same way one would treat an armed mentally ill individual?

A KFC employee in Birmingham, Alabaman, fired back at an armed robber on Sunday, after the suspect shot him in leg.