“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 […]
From wkyt.com: A Kentucky sheriff’s office has released video of a home invasion where the homeowner and one of the intruders exchanged gunfire. Warren County deputies responded to a home on Louisville Road Wednesday night after receiving a call about shots being fired. When they arrived, they found the homeowner had a gunshot wound to […]
By Grady Powell Bad guys are becoming more bold and aggressive. Understanding that valuable items and softer targets are more likely located in more affluent areas, they are increasingly targeting suburban homes and neighborhoods in historically low-crime areas. As with most things, when it comes to preparing an adequate home defense the sage Boy Scout […]
About ten days ago, a man and a woman showed up at Jerrica Little’s West Virginia home in a white van. It was before 8:00 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. The woman walked up and knocked on the door, leaving her accomplice in the van. “I’d been expecting a package, so I didn’t really think […]
This past Wednesday in Talmage, California, a 51-year-old man got home from work at 3:00 a.m. to find his front door ajar, his windows broken, and his property damaged. Various belongings had been taken outside and strewn around the yard. As he walked inside (for some reason), the homeowner found a complete stranger asleep on […]
Contrary to what some would have you believe, defensive gun uses happen literally every single day. Over a million annually, preventing assaults, robberies, rapes and murders. Besides other stories we’ve already reported, here are three more DGUs that barely made the news, further discrediting the myth that guns don’t make a home safer. One happened early […]
You’d think that living in one of the nation’s reddest states, Oklahoma, might make you think twice about trying to break into a man’s house while threatening his daughter. But that idea didn’t make its way through the skull of a 20-something-year-old man in Tulsa, who was shot twice in the chest by his ex-girlfriend’s […]
Gun control doesn’t keep guns out of criminals’ hands. You may have read that here before. Fortunately, they often use them on one another. Case in point: Last month in Troy, New York, police were called to a home after a report of a home invasion and shooting. When they arrived, they did indeed find […]
Around 6:40 p.m. in St. Pauls, N.C., a woman came home to some unexplained noises in her storage building. While armed, she walked into the building and saw James Dority, age 39, standing in the corner. The next thing she knew, he was “lunging at her” in “an aggressive manner.” She shot him five times […]
A woman pulled into her driveway on the south side of Houston Tuesday morning and got out of her car. There, she was immediately targeted by two men who held her at gunpoint, took her purse, and attempted to force her into the house. Luckily, her husband was home to heroically rescue her and their […]
Gun owners and concealed carry permit holders know that being prepared is a key factor in successfully defending your own and our loved ones’ lives. A biometric safe next to your bed, frequent trips to the gun range, taking a self-defense firearms course…. But are you prepared to successfully confront a home intruder in the dead […]
Forty-seven-year-old Todd Burns is alive, though recovering from emergency surgery, because the person whose garage he broke into was kind (or foolish) enough to fire a warning shot. Around 3:00am on Thursday morning, Burns and a female companion were driving through a quiet Arkansas neighborhood looking for (according to the woman) “free camping” in the area. […]
