Tag: A Good Guy With A Gun
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The Army Of Davids
The good guy with the gun does in fact make a difference. But according to the Crime Prevention Research Center, they make a much bigger difference than even I thought: Evidence compiled by the Crime Prevention Research Center shows that the sources the media relied on undercounted the number of instances in which armed citizens have thwarted…
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The Dicken Drill
Noticed a lot more people shooting at silhouettes waaaaaay down at the other end of the range lately? Blame Elisha Dicken, the hero of last summer’s attempted spree killing in Indiana, who put eight out of ten shots into a would-be mass murderer at a range of 40 yards, under the stress of shooting at…
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Let It Be Noted
I stay pretty relentlessly civil, especially when discussing politics. There’s enough pointless anger out there. But I’m going to say this, and I don’t care what you think about it: If you are part of the lefty social media mob that thinks “Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer”, you are a flat-earther. Complicated stuff follows. Stay…
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Real American Heroes
Joe Doakes from Como Park emailed in re the Indiana mall shooting, and the Good Guy with a Gun that ended it: Holy crap! Nice shootin’, Tex. Seriously. OK, first things first: having to shoot someone in self-defense is the second-worst possible outcome to a very bad situation. With that out of the way? To…
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Yet Another Good Guy With A Gun
Bystander in the St. Louis area shoots a serial violent armed robber: A man who police say went on a “violent crime spree” at three gas stations was shot and killed by a customer armed with a gun, Missouri police say. It happened around 3:20 a.m. on Saturday, July 16, in St. Charles, just outside…
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A Good Guy With A Gun
Berg‘s 18th law is still in effect – but initial reports indicate that an armed “Good Samaritan“ in Indiana killed a spree killer early in his attack: The Greenwood Police Department confirmed Sunday that a lone shooter, believed to be an adult male, entered the food court of the mall around 6 p.m. with a…
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I Love A Happy Ending
A good Lyft driver with a gun ends a car jacking in west Philadelphia: Two suspects in an armed carjacking are in the hospital after police say they attempted to take a vehicle from a Lyft who was armed with a gun he was licensed to carry on Monday afternoon in West Philadelphia. Now, let…
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Hypothetically Speaking
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails about a story I’ve been wanting to touch on all week: You know those “Good Guy with a gun” stories that Liberals scoff at as Sexist White Supremacists Compensating for Something? This Edina woman isn’t scoffing. If only there were some way society could assume responsibility for protecting the…
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A Good Guy With A Gun, Part XXIV
Recent mass shooting in Colorado was ended by a civilian with a legal firearm: “[John Hurley] did not hesitate; he didn’t stand there and think about it. He totally heard the gunfire, went to the door, saw the shooter and immediately ran in that direction,” [colleague Bill]] Troyanos said. “I just want to make sure…
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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…
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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…
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A Good Congregant With A Gun
First things first – with regard to the massacre in Christchurch New Zealand, Berg’s 18th Law is in full effect: “Nothing the media writes/says about any emotionally charged event – a mass shooting, a police shooting, anything – should be taken seriously for 48 hours after the original incident. It will largely be rubbish, as…
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Fore-Informed Is Forearmed
Most of you know this already. Perhaps a few of it have heard it but don’t believe it. But since Big Left and its subsidiary, the DFL, is busy trying to roll back the 2nd Amendment in Minnesota – with hearings coming up Wednesday in the Judiciary “Division” – it’s worth reinforcing the point for…
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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.…
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A Good Chicago Gal With A Gun
Woman defies the odds in robbery attempt in Chicago. Not by driving off a robber…: A man in Hyde Park was in for a surprise when the woman he was trying to rob pulled out a gun and fired. Just before 6:30 p.m. Saturday near 56th and Dorchester, Chicago police say the woman took out…
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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…
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A Good Guy With A Gun – And One Lucky Cop
Arizona man saves a state trooper’s life after an ambush on I-10 following a “shots fired’ radio call that led the officer to a crashed car and a mortally-injured woman: [Arizona Department of Public Safety director Col. Frank Milstead] said as the trooper began blocking off lanes of traffic and laying out flares, he was…
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Movie Rights Are Currently On The Table
The only response to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. It helps when the good guy is a long-serving member of one of the world’ premiere special forces units. A British Special Air Service (the original model for US Army’s Delta) trooper in town to train Kenyan special…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A Good Knight With A Shining Gun
Armed citizen rescues a couple and a child from a would-be carjacker: LITTLEFIELD, Texas – Littlefield Police said a man with a gun and a concealed carry permit was able to stop a violent carjacking Thursday afternoon. Police arrested Ruben Garcia Lopez, 25, for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, assault, terroristic threat and resisting…
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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.
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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…