Is it Justice or Vigilante Justice?

Police in Las Vegas are asking the public for help locating several people who came to the aid of a woman being raped in a shed in a Las Vegas community. As the group rescued the woman from her attacker, the attacker was fatally stabbed in the process. Las Vegas police reported that just after … Read more

Gun Saves the Day—And Some Lives—in German Knife Attack

A harrowing video is making the rounds online after German police said they shot and wounded a man armed with a knife who attacked a right-wing demonstration in the southwestern city of Mannheim on Friday. Social media footage showed a bearded man in glasses attacking people in the city’s central Marktplatz square with a knife. … Read more

Armed Citizen Halts Rampage of Cop Killer in New Mexico

In a tragic turn of events that has both shocked and united the community of Las Cruces, New Mexico, an armed citizen took decisive action to stop a deadly assault on a local police officer, according to reports from KOB 4 News and Las Cruces Sun News. The incident unfolded on February 11, when Las … Read more

Knives Out: Self-Defense Claim Stemmed from Fight Over Cutting Onions

Reading almost like something out of the Onion, WPTA in Indiana is reporting a 60-year-old man was charged after stabbing his girlfriend, a former magistrate, to death in what police said was an argument over cutting onions. The case just goes to show not all self-defense claims are the result of using a gun, nor … Read more

Man Tries to Steal Pistol From CCW Classroom, Stabs Cop, Gets Shot 14 Times

Police in Las Vegas released video of the death of a would-be thief who tried to steal a handgun from a bag under a table in a concealed carry class. Marvin Payton then attacked a pair of responding officers with a screwdriver, stabbing a female cop. That’s when her partner and three of the class … Read more

It Should Have Been a Defensive Gun Use: Midtown Manhattan Edition

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A Pace University student was stabbed in the head by a NYC subway beggar on Monday after the student refused to provide a ‘charitable donation’ to the bum’s booze fund. The attacker is in custody and the student is expected to survive. This attack is atypical, because it didn’t happen in a back alley or seedy drug den, and it didn’t even happen in the middle of the night. Police say the violent mugging started out as some run-of-the-mill mid-afternoon panhandling, but the 42 year-old beggar turned violent when the 19 year-old student refused to give him money . . .

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It Should Have Been A DGU: Norway Edition

Imagine that you’re on a nearly-empty rural bus at night, driving through the mountains. One of the passengers pulls out a knife and stabs another other in the chest. Now he’s coming for you. What’s your next move? If you’ve been disarmed because you live in Norway, your next move is “die.” DGU’s aren’t allowed in … Read more