DGU

Self-defense incidents aren’t always as they first appear. Sometimes, further investigation reveals that the attacker and victim already knew one another, or that the “victim” isn’t as innocent as they claim to be.

A California resident fatally shot a crazed, shirtless vandal this week after the suspect forced his way into the man’s apartment. 

Tragedy in Olde Town Arvada, Colorado, this week as police fatally wounded a good guy with a gun after he stopped a cop killer dead in his tracks.

A similar anti-Semitic attack began to play out in Miami Beach on Tuesday, but a man with a firearm stopped it before it escalated to violence.

A diner in Louisville pulled a mini revolver on a group of armed Black Lives Matter protestors after they disrupted his meal in an outdoor dining area in the city’s downtown area over the weekend.

A juvenile carjacker chose the wrong victim earlier this month when he tried to make a quick score in a suburban neighborhood near San Francisco.

A man was shot and killed at a Las Vegas gun range last month after he tried to rob one of the range patrons and attacked police officers responding to the scene.

A robbery suspect was captured and detained at an Atlanta Chick-fil-a on Tuesday by several of the restaurant’s patrons, one of whom fired at least two shots in self-defense as he tried to subdue the suspect.

Two home invasion stories from earlier this month demonstrate once again how access to firearms allows the less powerful to defend themselves from those who seek to do them harm.