“People have the right to defend themselves,” said Maj. Anthony Thuman with the Clayton County Police Department, “that’s the point we want to drive home, you have the right to defend yourself.” And a Clayton County, Georgia resident did exactly that when 18-year-old Jayven Jackson first pounded on his door at 3:00 am, then broke a […]
A would-be hold-up man strolled into a Portland, Oregon convenience store just after midnight, thinking he’d pick up some cash. Surveillance video shows him approach the store clerk and produce a hatchet from under his hoodie. That’s when the clerk in turn drew a handgun. As the Daily Mail relates . . . The unidentified […]
You’ve heard it a thousand times. “God created men and Sam Colt made them equal.” In other words, a firearm allows a smaller, weaker, slower or older individual to defend him or herself when attacked by someone younger, stronger and faster. Case in point: 80-year-old Ernesto Del Monte of south Florida. He was getting into […]
A Houston area burglar chose poorly last week when he broke into a home belonging to a pastor and his wife…both of whom know their way around a gun. Residents were alerted to something amiss about 11:30pm. From khou.com: Jeff Powers and his wife told police they were awakened by noises coming from their backyard. […]
How many gun owners are there in the US? Good question. No one really knows for sure. That’s because 1) surveys of gun ownership are historically inaccurate due to gun owners’ reluctance to talk about their firearms, and 2) many of those who are doing the polls have an interest in understating the actual number […]
If you’ve spent much time at all trolling the intertubes, you’ve probably run across the “Florida Man” meme. That’s because there’s no end of, well, unusual stories that typically involves criminal activity by male perpetrators in the Sunshine State. Take, for instance, the Florida Man who stole what he thought were opioids but turned out […]
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. YOU are your own first responder. No matter how many police officers cover your neck of the woods or how efficiently the respond, they simply can’t be everywhere they’re needed the moment they’re called. Our friends in the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex who toil endlessly advocating […]
He could have run in the opposite direction and called the police, but that’s not what a sheepdog does. At around 9:45 a.m. Tuesday morning in Dekalb, Georgia, two employees and three customers were inside a Family Dollar on Covington Highway. Suddenly, a man pulled out a gun, pointed it directly into the female store […]
Yep We can learn a lot about the state of armed self-defense in this country by looking at one medium-size town in Kansas. A couple of stories from Wichita this week nicely encapsulate the extent of civilian gun ownership, the reason people arm themselves and what happens when they do. First, let’s start with a […]
What started out as a luxurious beach vacation and ended in abject horror when two Detroit women were raped at gunpoint in their five-star hotel. The two friends had spent $2,400 on an all-inclusive getaway at Hotel Riu Reggae in Jamaica, where they stayed for five nights. At 11:15pm on their last night there, a 24-year-old […]
Franklin Schrout, pictured above, chose to invade one too many homes in his criminal career. It happend about 1:30 a.m. on Friday in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Schrout broke into the home of an 81-year-old man and his disabled sister, wearing all black and a skull mask. Once inside, Schrout demanded money. The homeowner said he didn’t have […]
By James England via concealednation.org: A high speed police pursuit ended after a SUV carrying three suspects collided with a GMC Sierra on the north side of Billings, Montana. The suspects’ vehicle flipped over and they got out in an attempt to flee the scene of the crime. Two of the suspects ran straight into a […]
