From WPTV NBC Channel 5 in West Palm Beach, Florida: That's when witnesses say Anderson stepped in to help. "He saw a woman being attacked at night, and he went to her aid. In my opinion I think he did the right thing," the sheriff says. Anderson is a disabled Army...
Defensive Gun Use
Pharmacist uses permitted concealed handgun to defend a store full of workers and customers
From WCHS ABC TV in Kanawha County, West Virginia on Thursday, February 19th: . . . Eight people were inside the pharmacy in Pinch when the suspect came through the door about 9:45 a.m. Kanawha deputies said the man, identified by Kanawha deputies as Terry...
Woman shoots man, a sex offender, who broke into her home at 4:30 AM
From KLTV in Tyler, Texas about a home invasion in Van Zandt County (just east of Dallas): . . . According to the Van Zandt County Sheriff's Office, at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday, they received a 911 call from a homeowner on Texas State Highway 19 north of Canton, in rural...
Why have a concealed handgun at a restaurant?: 23-year-old National Guard member stops three armed robbers at a Sonic restaurant
From WXIA TV (Channel 11) in Atlanta: A 23-year-old National Guard member foiled an attempted robbery at a DeKalb County restaurant Sunday night. It happened at the Sonic in the Belvedere Plaza shopping center near the intersection of Memorial and Columbia drives. . ....
67-year-old concealed handgun permit holder fatally shoots one of the two men who tried to rob him
An attempted robbery of a 67-year-old black man by two other men occurred in Cobbs Creek Park, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, February 4th (click on the above picture to enlarge). The park is a little west of the Philadelphia Zoo. The police chief says in...
11-year-old girl protects herself with a shotgun from two adults who broke into her home
Mlive.com reports on an 11-year-old in Lapeer County, Michigan who was able to protect herself against two home invaders. An 11-year-old girl used the shotgun she normally keeps to go hunting with her father to scare off a robber in her home, police said. The girl was...
Two burglars were thwarted by a University of Central Florida student with a gun
Students also benefit from the option to protect themselves. In the video available here, the male student describes how one of the burglars pointed a gun (what turned out to be a pellet gun) at point blank range right at the student's head. From WESH.com in...
CPRC on Canada’s Sun News Network: “Shoot an intruder in Idaho & the intruder goes to jail. In Canada the shooter might.”
CPRC's John Lott discussed the Michael Woodard defensive gun use case in Canada with Brian Lilley. The Idaho case that Brian mentions is available here.
Papa John’s lets pizza delivery woman who shot armed robber keep her job, Police: “She had no other choice”
As the police say, the pizza delivery woman "had no other choice" and she would have been in real danger if she hadn't had her concealed handgun permit. From Fox News: The employee was making a delivery in Decatur, Ga., Sunday night when a man approached her vehicle,...
Man Puts Gun to Pizza Delivery Woman’s Head, She Uses Permitted Concealed Handgun to Defend Herself
There were two men who tried to rob a Papa John's Pizza delivery driver on Sunday evening in DeKalb County Georgia. DeKalb County Police Department Capt. Stephen Fore told WSB-TV said: “She arrived at the location and a male began approaching the vehicle she thought...
Dramatic video of a passerby with a concealed handgun permit saving a woman who was being attacked in her car
From CBS-TV in Dallas/Fort Worth about a case in Southlake, Texas: A North Texas man is being heralded a hero after police said he held a man at gunpoint who was assaulting a woman. The tense standoff broke out on Friday near the intersection of Carroll Avenue and...
Two cases within a couple days where concealed handgun permit holders stopped robberies
One customer was killed here, but without the permit holder in this case, multiple customers might have been killed. St. Louis (occurred on Tuesday night, December 2, 2014): . . . Police said three gunmen entered the bar about 10:55 p.m. Tuesday — one of them...