Shot in the Dark

Tag: Self-defense

  • Another Walmart. Another Shooting.

    And another good guy with a gun saves the day: From KSWO ABC Channel 7 in Oklahoma: “Multiple witnesses have said the gunman shot two people in a vehicle and a civilian with a gun confronted him, causing the gunman to turn the gun on himself. We are working to confirm that story with Duncan…

  • Never Bring A Knife To…A Showing

    Creep pulls a knife and a bottle of bear spray on a real estate agent at an open house. Agent was in – but the victim was out: The incident took place in Commerce City, Colorado, on August 4. According to a report by 9 News, the man – later identified by authorities as 43-year-old…

  • A Smart, Patient, Cool-Headed Good Guy With A Gun

    North Carolina man kept his head during a gas station robbery. Literally:  A concealed carrier at a gas station during a robbery, waited his turn to make a move. While inside the store, two armed robbers came in and put a gun inches away from the armed citizen’s face.He complied and gave the robbers his…

  • Why Does Anyone Need An AR15?

    So they don’t run out of bullets before their attacker runs out of attack. Or attackers, plural: Marion County sheriff’s officials say a homeowner armed with an AR-15 shot and killed two intruders and was injured himself during a home invasion robbery in Summerfield Wednesday night.Two other robbery suspects — Robert John Hamilton, 19, of…

  • Sign O The Times

    Back about the time I took my first carry permit training, the late great Joel Rosenberg told the story of the time in the early 2000s, during a spate of attacks on synagogues, when a very “progressive”, DFL-leaning local congregation called him and a few other prominent gun rights activists who are also of the…

  • How Not To Defend Yourself

    Vincent Nesta Trotter. an eastside Saint Paul homeowner who shot a guy who was alleged to have crashed a stolen car and fled from police, has given us an object lesson on what not to do in a self-defense situation. Remember – when claiming self-defense, you have to prove you were in reasonable, immediate fear…

  • Five Good Guys, Two With Guns

    The FBI designated 27 “active shooter” situations in 2018. 10 of them, they called “Mass Shootings”. So keep that in mind as you look over the stats from the FBI’s annual report on active shooter situations. “The FBI has designated 27 shootings in 2018 as active shooter incidents.” “10 of those 27 met our definition…

  • A Good Son With A Gun

    Florida man kills who robbers who were holding his mother at gunpoint: The 911 call from the victim revealed that he was asleep at the time of the break-in and was woken up by the intruders, who he said were holding his mother at gunpoint. “They were trying to wake me up,” he said in the call.…

  • A Conservative Is A Liberal That’s Been Mugged

    It’s not just an aphorism! DC/Baltimore area liberal political comic lives it out: Tim Young was heading to one of D.C.’s newest hotspots—The Wharf—when his life changed.He was walking down a well-lit section of M Street at about 7:45 p.m. Wednesday when two men approached him—one of them had a gun.“Terrified. You know, when I…

  • “Why Does A Civilian Need A 30 Round Magazine?”

    The serious answer – so the good guy doesn’t run out of bullets before the bad guy runs out of attack. Homeowner in Houston repels a violent, armed home invasion… …by five men with “big guns”: One man was left dead in front of the house, at least one wounded man took off on foot and…

  • Advice

    I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it at least once a month until “Protect” MInnesota finally gets laughed out of polite company in this state: the local gun grab group and its arious leaders – the “Reverend” Nancy Nord Bence today, Rep. Heather Martens before her – have never, not once, made…

  • May You Get Your Wish, Dumb*ss

    Big Left – and its wholly owned subsidiary, Big Gun Control – is actively working to “other” the law-abiding gun owner – to make the law-abiding practice of a legal act something not done in “polite company”, or at least that company as practiced by the part of our society that considers infanticide acceptable and…

  • Overcomplicated

    James C. Moore is identified as a “lifelong Texan”. That, and an op-ed that tries to poo-pooh the notion that a good guy with a gun actually does anything useful in extremis – would seem to be the only reasons he wound up getting his “op-ed” posted on CNN.com. It’s entitled “Texas shooting isn’t as…

  • Lie First, Lie Always: Miss Placed

    Last February, while riding her motorcycle home from work in suburban Tacoma, Washington, Aubrey Bowlin – a 24-year-old woman who weighs in at about 100 pounds, soaking wet – wound up in a fight fight for her life in a road rage incident with a driver considerably larger than her. First, he tried to ram…

  • A Good Guy With A Gun

    And armed citizen with a legally owned a firearm has shot and killed a wannabe spree killer a restaurant in Oklahoma: An armed citizen shot and killed a mass shooter at a restaurant in Oklahoma on Thursday after the gunman walked in and opened fire, hitting several people. “A man walked into the Louie’s restaurant…

  • A Good Ol’ Gal With A Gun

    A  South Carolina woman kills an escaped inmate who had just kicked down her back door: The inmate was still in his orange jail jumpsuit and had grabbed a knife sharpening tool from the woman’s kitchen in Pickens as he headed toward her bedroom around 3 a.m. Tuesday, Pickens County Sheriff Rick Clark said. “This…

  • A Good Guy With A Gun. Maybe Two.

    I’ve been a little slow getting to this story – it’s a few weeks old, and it’s been a busy November so far One Gregory Bush walked into a Kroger in Louisville, KY, and killed one black man, apparently yelling racial slurs as he did so. There is some evidence – albeit only in an…

  • Just Not Your Day

    Would-be armed robber in Arizona learns you shouldn’t bring a knife to a chair, fist and big stick fight: I love a happy ending.

  • A Good Customer With A Gun

    An armed citizen, whom police are calling a “Good Samaritan”, ended a shooting spree at a Walmart in Washington state. If only we cared about our school children as much as we do about our Walmart customers.

  • Another Good Guy With A Gun

    A motorist who shot a man acting erratically and aggressively – with a knife – after a traffic accident in Fridley last fall won’t be charged.   According to the attorney’s office, Schiffler got out of his vehicle, grabbed a woman and began forcefully groping and kissing her. He also, the attorney’s office said, stabbed at…

  • A Good Guy With A Gun: Multitasking

    A good guy with a gun and a baby, attacked by four thugs, fails to become a tragic statistic: Four men were at a McDonald’s in Memphis’ Orange Mound neighborhood when they attempted to rob the father, police said. David Chase, who witnessed the attempted robbery from across the street and called 911, told WREG…

  • Just Crazy Enough…

    A Pennsylvania school is planning to fight active shooters… …with buckets of rocks: “Every classroom has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket of river stone. If an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance into any of our classrooms, they will face a classroom full students armed with rocks and they will be stoned,” said Dr.…

  • A Nation Of Cowards

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: We are told ordinary citizens don’t need guns, we shouldn’t try to defend ourselves, we should leave it to the professionals who have training and experience to do the job safely and correctly. In other words:  “Trust us, we’re from the government and we’re here to help.” The School…

  • So Let’s Get This Straight

    So let’s count it down: A deeeeeeeply troubled kid with a long, long record of violent outbursts – who, by law, could not be expelled, because school districts need that per diem for having kids in the seats. Multiple credible reports of a kid who “wanted to shoot up the school”, received by the sheriff’s…

  • A Good Guy With A Gun – So Far

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Concealed carry permit holder shoots a man dead, to stop him from beating a liquor store employee to death. I love a story with a happy ending. Joe Doakes We’ll see how this shakes out – I don’t think John Choi wants Ramco residents feeling too empowered. But so…