We say this often. You never know when crazy is going to show up at your door. And that’s exactly what happened in a Largo, FL neighborhood yesterday morning. Luckily, one of the homeowners was armed. Early yesterday morning, a man forced his way into a home in Largo, FL. He was able to gain entry because the homeowner opened…
This story just made me scratch my head and wonder what this world is coming to. A man is attacked behind the counter of the bodega he was working at. He defends himself with a knife. And then he is charged with murder? Well, I guess it kind of makes sense since it happened in New York City. Only July…
A Florida man that was attacked by armed home invaders managed to get to a rifle and fend off three home invaders last week. Just before midnight on July 7, 2022, three men broke into a home in Escambia County, Florida. The homeowner was home alone when the invasion took place. One of the suspects pulled a gun from his…
A man was in the parking lot of a restaurant in Chicago, IL, around 5 PM this past Tuesday. It is unclear if the man was in a vehicle or standing in the parking lot. A car pulled up, and an armed 19-year-old got out and started shooting at the man. The victim drew his gun and fired back at…
This self-defense shooting might not be that newsworthy except for the fact it is the second in less than 24 hours in Chicago. At the beginning of last month, I wrote an article about how many times a defensive gun shooting had happened in Chicago since the beginning of 2021. It was 46, but after last weekend the number has…
During an attempted carjacking in Chicago’s South Loop, a man was wounded in a shootout with five men in hoodies and masks. Minutes earlier, a woman got hit in the head with a gun and had her car stolen blocks away. Around 4 a.m. on Monday in Chicago’s South Loop, five gunmen in a black Jeep Cherokee and a Chevy…
In what is described as a Fourth of July barbecue that took a wrong turn, a woman is lucky to be alive and her attacker, her 22-year-old son, is deceased. Witnesses in a North Harris County, TX neighborhood stated to police that a mother and her son were outside barbecuing on the Fourth of July when it “took a bad…
If you aren’t familiar with Dick Heller, take a few minutes and read the District of Columbia v. Heller Wiki page to get up to speed. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms in the United States, unconnected…
Two homeowners were forced to defend themselves after retreating to a bathroom after a man with a knife broke into their home screaming, You’ll have to kill me.” Early this past July 4th, around 1 AM, a Safford, AZ man broke into his neighbor’s home wielding a knife. The two homeowners fled into a bedroom and then a bathroom. As…
What started as two best friends drinking beer together to celebrate the 4th of July turned into a shooting that was ultimately ruled self-defense. The moral of the story is? Guns and alcohol don’t mix. Two North Dakota friends celebrated the 4th of July by hanging out and drinking beer. After ‘hours of drinking,’ Kyle Lovaas, the man whose trailer…