Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Don’t Mess with Texas Edition
The Dallas/Ft. Worth area of Texas isn't necessarily the most pristine and crime free locale in the state. Heck, I still have nightmares about the night I spent there earlier this year. But the...
DGU Week in Review: Hometown Heroes Edition
It's worth mentioning that many of our DGU reports occur in small towns, far away from the mega-cities where anti-gun influence so often restricts our natural right to armed self defense. Gypsum, Kansas and...
Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Big Papi Edition
"I heard 'pow, pow, pow,' " (Robin Cook) said Friday, standing on her doorstep on Wyalusing Avenue in West Philadelphia, caution tape draped across the block just feet from her front door. "I thought,...
DGU Week In Review
It can be hard to quantify defensive gun uses. Sure, we hear about bad guys getting shot every day, but it's rare these days for a story to be press-worthy if no shots...
[Inadvertent] Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Oh Hell No Edition
It's no surprise, really, that armed men showed up at Teresa Martin's house early Saturday morning. Tampa police arrested three men afterwards, including one Johnny Acevedo Jr. "Acevedo was sentenced to four years probation for...
It Should’ve Been A DGU: Luck Runs Out Edition
This is a tough one to write. Not because of the events, or the people involved; tragedies like this are tough for anyone to stomach. No, this is my first "Should've Been A DGU"...
Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Broad Daylight Edition
“'I said, ‘Really?’ Yager said. 'I reached over like I was going to get my billfold and grabbed my gun and stuck it in his face and said, ‘You mean like this?’” That's the rundown...
Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Never Again Edition
The more things change.... Reuters reports: "A leading member of Germany's Jewish community had to point to a gun he was carrying to ward off a young man shouting anti-Semetic abuse, the latest in...
Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Double Tap Edition
"This is like my house, I open up here 6:30 in the morning until 9 o'clock seven days a week for 40 years, this is my house, this is my business." That's seventy-year-old Edilberto...
DGU of the Day: A Little Less Conversation Edition
As much as we love these videos, we must once again caution you, gentle reader, that it's a bad idea to recreate a defensive gun use (DGU) for the media. It can be used...
It Should Have Been A DGU: It’s Alive! Edition
You've heard of the dead walking the earth. Now we have a new situation to deal with: metal tools brazenly committing felonies. In an article titled, Gun robs fast food worker, something called laurinburgexchange.com...
Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Daisy Edition
We never said a defensive gun use had to involve an actual firearm, did we? No, no we didn't. Around these parts, a gun is a gun. "Bellingham police say a 10-year-old...