Why is it that about 90% of the stories you are espousing as “good” involve a dead gunman who should never have had access to a handgun in the first place?
A great proportion of your “positive” stories read to me much more like arguments for better background checks, stricter regulations on concealed carry and stronger community support for mental rather than “yay - let’s be happy about the good guy with a gun”
“Armed with handguns” = poor gun control
Teenagers with guns - where’d the guns come from?
Man - lucky thing that guns are so easy to get so that the home owner could protect himself against guns
A man broke into a house (not a business) in the wee hours of the morning on a Saturday (when a reasonable person–or even an unreasonable person–might expect the people who lived there to be home). There was a family, including a young child, in the house.
The man who lived in the house had a gun, and he “shouted” for the invader to leave. When I said the attacker “refused to respond”, what I mean was, he didn’t say “Oh, there’s someone living here! And they have a gun! I think I shall go somewhere else now!”. (Or even just leave, without saying anything.) The attacker continued attacking; he continued trying to break into a house, in the middle of the night, where a family was living, and where he knew the residents were home. What did he want to do? Maybe nothing too awful would have happened–or maybe the intruder wanted to do something unspeakably horrible. The people who live in that house didn’t have to find out the hard way which it was.
Some consider getting to shoot someone legally as a positive.
From last week in Amarillo, Texas a man was arrested after being caught breaking into a car in the early hours of the morning; the victim of the attempted theft caught the man in the act and held the perpetrator at gunpoint until police arrived.
From earlier this month in Kingston, Wisconsin, a man (who had reportedly been using methamphetamine) broke into a house in the early hours of a weekday morning. When the homeowner confronted the man, the intruder left, but soon returned with a knife and attempted to force his way back into the home while threatening to kill the occupants of the house. The homeowner then shot the intruder with a handgun. The knife-wielding home invader was charged with multiple felonies after being released from the hospital.
From last month in Oklahoma City, a man initially suspected a squirrel had gotten into his attic, but then decided that whatever it was seemed to be bigger than that–maybe a raccoon or an opossum–so the homeowner took a rifle with him when he went to investigate. It turned out that a man had gotten into his attic and was “camped out” there on a mattress. The homeowner held the attic burglar at gunpoint until police arrived.
Now, now, now, this thread is for 2nd Amendment misinterpreters to have their fun. That’s why it’s in MPSIMS instead of GD, where they’d be forced to defend themselves.
It’s one thread, mostly used by a handful of posters. And I can sorta see their point. America still has a Wild West feel and, good guys and bad, some people like that. I don’t have the statistics at hand comparing the good guy with a gun incidents with the gun accidents because someone, a child or a moron with his nine stuck in his pants, had no business near a gun, but I don’t think some people care.
Statistics on “defensive gun uses” are all over the place. You can find estimates as low as 60,000+ a year, or as high as over 1 million a year. (“Defensive gun use” doesn’t necessarily mean someone was shot, let alone killed, as many of the anecdotal stories in this thread show.)
Accidental gun deaths (not deliberate suicides, and not deliberate homicides–murder or non-negligent manslaughter) run to fewer than 500 a year, down significantly (from over 800 a year) from 20 years ago.
Three men attempt home invasion. Ring Camera captures them approaching and kicking in the door.
Homeowner shot one of them and the Ring Camera captures their hasty exit.
I’m impressed with clarity of the video. It’s a good resource for the police.
Home security is a good thing to have, but Ring is a good resource for the police because they’ve been in a very controversial relationship with police departments and have a poor security record.
From an incident that happened two days ago in Buffalo, South Carolina: There will be no charges filed against a man who shot and killed an armed home invader. The man who was killed broke into the house of a woman and her two young children and opened fire. The man who broke into the house had outstanding warrants for domestic violence crimes (from an incident that apparently happened just a few days ago); according to the sheriff, the man who killed him “had been invited to the house and had the right to be in the home and what he did was in self-defense”.
Similar case in Scottsdale Arizona.
Homeowner confronted and chased off the trespasser at 9 pm. He called police and they investigated.
Almost 2 hours later homeowner finds the same guy (now naked) inside his home and in a child’s bedroom.
This guy was certainly determined to get in that house. He won’t be a threat to other families.
I looked at the address (92nd Street and Pinnacle Peak Road), on Google maps. It looks like a new sub division with nice homes. Not a neighborhood where you’d expect a crime like this. It’s fortunate that the homeowner had a gun readily available.
The man broke into someone’s home while it was occupied. This isn’t a simple trespass, it is a home invasion. Should the homeowner have waited for the beating or raping to start before defending himself? Is that your objection to the story? That there was no beating, raping or trashing yet? What intentions do you supposed the home invader had?
No person should be forced to endure a home invasion. What would have been a “positive” story in your world? Would you have preferred the homeowner cowers in the corner while the invaders have their way with house, property and family members?
From earlier this week in Corpus Christi, Texas, a man and woman broke into a house just before 1 a.m. A resident of the house heard the commotion and shot and fatally wounded the man. The woman who had broken into the house along with him was later arrested; a second woman, who had remained in the car during the home invasion, was arrested on an outstanding warrant for drug charges.
This is the reason why I have guns at home. Home invasions are terrifying. Especially with assailants high on drugs. They can be hyper aggressive.
This follow up story is very interesting. Police found 4 people and children with LSD, cocaine, THC resin and some unknown substances believed to be hallucinogens. Police also found a gun at Nathan Jerrell Edward’s rental home.
He said the man threatened him, so he retreated inside his house to get away.
From a week ago in Eureka, California, a group of people were making noise in a residential neighborhood at 2:30 in the morning. A resident of one of the houses went on his porch and told the noisemakers to leave the area. Instead, they became belligerent and entered the man’s property. The resident sprayed the attackers with pepper spray as he retreated into his house; at least one of the attackers followed the man into the house, and the resident shot and killed him with a handgun, also wounding one of the other attackers who was still on the house’s porch.
Your post is getting quite a bit of attention over in the Stupid gun news thread.