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...
Defensive Gun Use
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...
Mother uses permitted concealed handgun to protect her 13-year-old son after armed gang members shoot him in the leg and foot
Our research shows how it is poor blacks who live in high crime urban areas who benefit the most from having a gun to protect themselves. This story from ABC TV News in Columbus, Ohio provides a dramatic example of this point: A mother and her 13-year-old son were...
University of Pennsylvania student with a concealed handgun permit wounds “Stab-happy [robbery] suspect”
The shooting occurred in Philadelphia on Wednesday, June 4th. The robber was Kermit Gosnell son, though he has apparently changed his name to Baron Alexander, presumably due to his father's conviction of murdering three babies who were born alive. From the...
10 Defensive Gun Uses in December 2012 where victims had to fire a lot of shots in self defense
There are a lot of cases where victims face multiple attackers. Here are just some of the cases from December 2012. When I read through these cases it was clear to me that there were seven cases that involved a large number of defensive shots fired. While it's not...