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.

Detroit Burglars Keep Breaking In, Detroit Homeowners Keep Shooting Them

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What are you gonna do when some punk starts to break into your humble domicile in the middle of the night, and keeps coming at you even after you warn him you're armed? If...

Defensive Gun Use Of The Day: Machete-Wielding Madman Edition

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The 21-Foot Rule predicts that a knife can beat a gun within…yes, 21 feet. But a deranged, machete-wielding intruder in Pocatello, Idaho might have forgotten that the 21-Foot Rule doesn't apply when that gun...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Words Mean Things Edition

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Either the AP or the local PD made an interesting choice of words in describing a shooting that took place in the Chandler, Arizona Walmart on Sunday. The AP story says, "A man who...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Detroit Mom Wields “Assault Rifle” Edition

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It's amazing, astounding really that the wxyz.com's printed version of their TV report doesn't mention the fact that the "brave Mom" defending her brood against home invaders ended the attack with an "assault...

Annals of Concealed Carry: Chicago Criminals Travel To Indiana. And Get Shot

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A Chigaco-area scumbag is perforated, but alive today after he and an accomplice traveled to Gary, Indiana to rob the inaptly-named 'Safe And Sound Social Club.' The club may have looked like a soft...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Seconds Counted Edition

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We may never know what drove Earl Edward Clague Jr. to ram his car into the Perry, Florida car dealership where he worked and open fire with a shotgun last week. What we do know...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Making Lemonade Edition

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From wect.com, we get word of some weekend Tar Heel tomfoolery: "Some quick thinking got a Wilmington man out of a tough situation early Saturday morning. Around 3 a.m. Saturday morning, the victim came home...

Gut-Shot Home Invader Keeps Attacking, Then Quits After Being Shot In The Hand

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Guns aren't death rays, even with solid center-mass hits. A Houston homeowner is alive and safe after defending his home against a crazed robber Saturday night, because he kept shooting until the threat was...

How Do You Stop A Bad Guy With A Gun In A Strip Club?

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This is not a hypothetical question. A mass shooting at a Portland, Oregon strip club 'gentlemen's club' was brought to a screeching, bleeding halt by that supposedly nonexistent liberal bugaboo, the Good Guy With...

Defensive Gun Use Of The Day: Seven Isn’t Heaven Edition

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"Nobody needs weapons of war on America's streets. Nobody needs more than fifteen (ten? eight? seven? six? two?) rounds for self-defense." Bullsh*t. A California restaurant employee is alive today because he had enough rounds...

Post Defensive Gun Use Respiratory Distress Revealed

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  If you've recently taken the required class for your Texas CHL as RF and I did on Saturday, you may have heard about the latest health scourge afflicting the nation's gun owners. No, it's...

It Should Have Been a Defensive Gun Use: 1400 Armed Robberies in D.C. in...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8FMi-raG5c "On Capitol Hill on New Year’s Day, an unsettling event occurred that had been reported nearly 1,400 times in the District in the previous year: Property was taken at the point of a gun,"...