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.

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: A Tale of Two Home Invasions

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Pardon the change of gears from my typical detailed deconstructions of anti-gunners’ falsehoods, fallacies and folderol. This is more in the nature of a compare and contrast on two home invasions by the same...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Yellow Peril Edition

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When you think of paintball guns (or markers, as they're so daintily referred to by the cognescenti), they're not the first things you'd want to grab if you have to defend your home and...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: ‘He Has His Right’ Edition

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"Clerks and store owners have been on edge after a recent string of burglaries. There have been business robberies 13 out of the last 14 days in Huntsville. Some days have seen multiple robberies."...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Classic Case Edition

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William Cornwell and his wife were rudely awoken about 4:00 a.m. Saturday by pounding on the front door of their Winter Haven, Florida home. A drunken Christopher Deese wanted in after first breaking into...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Teach Your Children Well Edition

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"You’re my friend, how could you do this to me?" That was all Georgi Layous could blurt out when a long-time customer pulled a gun on the Chicago jeweler and demanded his money. Nineteen-year-old...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Big Apple of the West Edition

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John Saul owns and lives in the curiously named New York Store Western Outfitters in Walla Walla, Washington. That's how he came to confront a known gang member who broke into the store---no...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Stand Your Ground And Pay the Price Edition

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TTAG Commentator Archie J writes: While trolling the Huffington Post webpage I came across an article about Marissa Alexander, an AA woman (and mother) who defended herself against an abusive ex husband. Before the incident,...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Senior Semper Fi Edition

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"Pierre was asleep in his bedroom, and his stepfather, Marco, was asleep on the couch when they heard a loud bang. It was the robbers kicking in the door that leads from the garage...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Mexican Standoff Edition

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“I felt something going like this pushing on my head and I did not move and all of a sudden he pushed harder, and I opened my eyes and I said ‘what are...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: One Tough Mother Edition

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Yahoo Sports reveals that UFC scrapper Urijah Faber appears to owe his toughness as much to nature as to nurture. The ultimate fighter's mom can also handle herself just fine, thank you very much....

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Brave New World Edition

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When Erin McCoy awoke from a Saturday afternoon nap to the sound of glass breaking, she grabbed a shotgun. Seeing a hand trying to open the window in her kitchen, she tried to warn...