Chicago, Illinois, March 28, 2018 An armed suburban man with a concealed-carry license intervened in a 3-on-1 beating and robbery in River North yesterday evening, according to a witness and police. The victim was in the 700 block of North Clark around 8:30 p.m. when...
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Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 22 Cases During March 2022
Atlanta, GA, March 1, 2022 (FOX 5 Atlanta) Officers have arrested five teenagers after a police chase through multiple metro Atlanta cities and counties early Tuesday morning.Officials tell FOX 5 the incident started around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday in DeKalb County with a...
UPDATED: Compiling Cases where concealed handgun permit holders have stopped likely mass public shootings
This is a revised, updated version of a post originally written on April 21, 2015. UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh wrote in the Washington Post on April 20, 2015: "Have civilians with permitted concealed handguns stopped such mass shootings before?" We provided...
People legally carrying guns have saved police officers
Maple Falls, WA, February 10, 2022 Two deputies responded to a report of shots fired in a Maple Falls neighborhood. Upon arrival, the suspect started yelling at the deputies, waving a shotgun around, and “appeared to be intoxicated by his speech and actions.” The...
NBC’s Law & Order: SVU: Again Shows another Civilian Defensive Gun Use Gone Wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuyvjisZtoQ Television show bias against guns is never-ending. You won’t see an entertainment television show that has a civilian successfully using a gun defensively. Instead, something always seems to go wrong when guns are...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 31 Cases During January 2022
Philadelphia, PA, January 3, 2022 (NBC Philadelphia) A legally armed Lyft driver shot and critically injured two suspects who carjacked him in Philadelphia, police said.The ordeal began Monday shortly before 2:45 p.m. A 38-year-old Lyft driver was driving his 2011...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 20 Cases During December 2021
Charlotte, NC, December 2, 2021 (WSOC-TV) Police have classified a shooting that left a 48-year-old man dead in east Charlotte at the beginning of December as a “justified homicide.”The shooting happened at about 5:10 p.m. along Lawyers Road at East W.T. Harris...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 23 Cases During November 2021
Miami, FL, November 1, 2021 (VladTV) Reggaeton artist Kerr Yen was recently robbed at gunpoint outside of a Miami recording studio before shooting at the thieves as they got away with the stolen possessions.Surveillance footage captured the Puerto Rican artist smoking...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 22 Cases During October 2021
St. Louis, MO, October 4, 2021 (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, KSDK) The shooting was reported near the 100 block of Iron Street in south St. Louis about 8:30 p.m. Monday...During their initial investigation, police said the man was trying to break into a car when he was...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 22 Cases During September 2021
Washington, PA, September 1, 2021 (KDKA-TV) Thirty-six-year-old Leonard Williams Jr. was shot and killed along West Walnut Street on Sept. 1.According to District Attorney Jason Walsh, the landlord told police that after he posted Williams’ property in arrears,...
CBS’ “FBI: Most Wanted” Shows another Civilian Defensive Gun Use Gone Wrong
https://rumble.com/embed/vreion/?pub=vzmga Television show bias against guns is never-ending. Except for a couple of episodes of Paramount’s Yellowstone, you won’t see an entertainment television show that has a civilian successfully using a gun defensively....
In the Los Angeles Times: You don’t have to shoot someone to use a gun defensively
Dr. John Lott has a letter responding to the absurd claim in the Los Angeles Times and Yahoo! News that there are only 2,000 defensive gun uses per year. A slightly longer version of the letter was published in the Kankakee, Illinois Daily Journal (February 12, 2022)....