Here is a dramatic case where an elderly woman had no alternative to protect herself from a 39-year-old man other than with a gun. . . . . The incident occurred on March 13 at approximately 2 a.m. local time, according to the prosecuting attorney’s office. The...
Defensive Gun Use
Philadelphia: Wild dash camera video shows what happened when armed suspect learns driver has a gun
As the video shows, this attempted carjacking occurred on April 12, 2024.
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 29 Cases During December 2023
Sanford, Maine, December 1, 2023 (FOX News, Portland Press Herald) Police responded to the corner of Main and Lebanon streets just before 4 p.m. on Dec. 1, after witnesses said a man had been walking in the roadway, yelling at vehicles and carrying a knife… Poto said...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 30 Cases During November 2023
Knoxville, Tennessee, November 1, 2023 (WBIR) An investigation revealed that Matthew Green was actively assaulting a person in the parking garage at 2120 Clinch Avenue around 9:30 p.m. His son shot him in the leg after giving him multiple warnings to stop the assault,...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 25 Cases During October 2023
Phoenix, Arizona, October 1, 2023 (Arizona Republic, abc15.com) A man faces first-degree murder charges after he was accused of attempting to rob another man with a knife and chasing him into a Phoenix street, where he was fatally hit by a car. On Sunday night,...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 20 Cases During September 2023
Bradenton, Florida, September 2, 2023 (ABC Action News) Police said Sean Phillips, 34, allegedly shot at several people in the parking lot of Shannon Funeral Home on 14th Street West after a service around 9:30 p.m. Detectives believe Phillips lived above the funeral...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 25 Cases During August 2023
Raleigh, North Carolina, August 1, 2023 (WRAL News) Raleigh police will not file charges after a woman shot and killed a man in the parking lot of a Food Lion grocery store. According to police, 49-year-old Steven McLamb is accused of tugging on a woman’s car door...
Armed Man saves Woman from Robber at Major transit hub, Police say. Police Arrest the Good Samaritan. This occurred while the NYPD was being even more restrictive on issuing permits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHDHlT9IYYM With New York City's robbery rate up 25.3% from two years ago and overall serious crime up 29%, New Yorkers have some real concerns about crime. On Tuesday, November 7th, a good samaritan, John Rote, of Queens, rescued a...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 24 Cases During July 2023
Wichita, Kansas, July 2, 2023 (KWCH) No charges will be filed against the man who was arrested and accused of firing shots inside City Nightz nightclub on July 2. He’s set to be released from jail Thursday afternoon. Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 20 Cases During June 2023
Allentown, Pennsylvania, June 4, 2023 (69 News) Edgar Gonzalez, 22, suffered a gunshot wound while involved in an altercation on June 4 in the parking lot of the AutoZone at 1871 South 5th Street in Allentown, according to a news release from the district attorney's...
Armed Israeli Civilians Stop Terrorist Attack at Their Kibbutz
It was simply impossible for the military or police to protect all the civilian targets. . We have our own group, men aged between 20 and 40, who have been specially trained to be a civilian army. They are the ones who saved our lives,” the social worker and therapist...
Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports from 2014-2022 regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 4.6%, the correct number is at least 35.7%. In 2022, it is at least 41.3%. Excluding gun-free zones, it averaged over 63.5%.
Data: For convenience, a PDF of the Excel file is also available here and a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories. FBI Active Shooting reports are available here (2000-2013), here (2014-2015), here (2016-2017), here (2018), here (2019), here...