Defensive Gun Use of the Day

An ongoing archive of DGU (Defensive Gun Use) stories in which armed victims defend themselves and others against threats of grave injury or death. They’re more common than some think.

Anti-Gunners Like Rep. Steve Woodrow Would Rather See You Die Than Defend Yourself With...

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We can remember the days when the story of a woman successfully defending herself against a masked, armed attacker was considered good news. Times have apparently changed. At least they have for a certain...
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Personal Defense Lessons: The Story of Joe Morelock

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I serve as the Executive Director of Guns Save Life, a successful and aggressive regional grassroots gun rights group that meets in six cities each month in Illinois. Each month, our meetings feature a...

You Make the Call: Good Defensive Gun Use or Irresponsible Gun Owner of the...

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A customer at a Santa Ana, California restaurant, waiting in his car for his burger and fries, looked through the drive-thru window and saw a masked man with a gun walk in and demand...
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Gosh, Why Do the Media Downplay Defensive Gun Uses That Save Lives?

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From the Second Amendment Foundation . . . While the legacy media is quick to sensationalize every incident involving misuse of firearms, they just as quickly downplay or completely dismiss reports of lawful self-defense with...
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Fairfield, California Resident Shoots and Kills Home Invader With a .357 Revolver [VIDEO]

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San Francisco has become the festering pustule of California (a title it's taken in a very competitive race with Los Angeles). Skyrocketing crime, rampant homelessness, and an indifferent criminal justice system have caused so...
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Concealed Carrier Shoots Gunman, Saves Victims’ Lives In Lori Lightfoot’s Crime-Ridden Chicago

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A good guy with a gun sprang into action over the July 4th holiday weekend when he witnessed a gunman shooting multiple people in the Austin section of Chicago. According to the Chicago Tribune,...
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Pay No Attention to the West Virginia Woman Who Shot and Killed the Man...

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We've been reliably told by some of the smartest people in America -- just ask them -- that defensive gun uses are few and far between. That the idea of the "good guy with...

New Orleans Homeowner Shoots Intruder Who ‘Lunged At’ Him In His French Quarter Home...

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Last week a tourist in New Orleans, 29-year-old Matthew Clark, began knocking on a number of doors in a residential section of the French Quarter. In surveillance video, Clark looks to be drunk, which...
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Knife-Wielding Florida Man, On His Way to Anger Management, Shot and Killed In Home...

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How many times have you heard from mouthpieces for the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex that having a gun in the home endangers women? How many times have those same people claimed that women owning...
Walmart Wichita Falls incident

Concealed Carrier Shoots a Shoplifter Who Threatened a Walmart Security Guard

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What happens when you point a gun at a Walmart security guard? In Indiana -- or lots of other gun-friendly states, for that matter -- you run the risk of one of the store's...

Woman With a Gun Stops Man With a Steel Beam From Breaking Into Her...

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From the personal defense files comes the latest broad daylight lesson from the great northwest about armed self defense and the effectiveness of orders of protection in deterring From KOMO News . . . Kennewick (Washington)...
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He Was Warned: Homeowner Shoots Crook Who Returned After Botched Theft Attempt

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By Edgar Lee A failed attempt to steal a vehicle wasn't enough to keep a would-be thief from returning to a Green, Ohio residence and ignoring the armed homeowner’s warnings. That earned him a gunshot...