by Dave Duringer | Nov 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use
And these are just the ones picked up by media: Source: Sixty-seven defensive gun uses by people legally carrying guns in public over the past three months – Crime Prevention Research CenterCrime Prevention Research...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use
[UPDATE AND CORRECTION: The article linked below is incorrect — due to some very unclear media accounts. Apparently there was an armed white guy who failed to respond, but story here indicates it was another armed citizen, who happens to be BLACK, that actually...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Good shoot: A brave dad armed with a pistol stopped what could have been a mass shooting Saturday inside an Alabama McDonald’s when he took down a masked gunman who had stormed in and opened fire. The unidentified father was leaving the establishment with...
by Dave Duringer | Oct 24, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
HALF!? This is far too great an omission to be accidental. This false report has been used to minimize the importance of carry (including at an “active shooter” class i took, given by an anti-CCW former cop). The utility of concealed carry is much higher...
by Dave Duringer | Oct 18, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
Amazing. After decades of advocating gun control “if it saves one life” while ignoring millions of defensive gun uses, the leftist media actually inks a headline braying that one cop — saved by an armed citizen who joined the fray —...
by Dave Duringer | Jul 23, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, Firearm Training
Hopefully there was some justification for shooting in the head (other than “I didn’t train enough”): Investigators said it all started when the man’s wife pulled into their driveway Tuesday night. Then the two armed suspects jumped out and tried to...
by Dave Duringer | Jul 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Girl could barely hold on to tree, she was up so long (half hour before 911 called). Why didn’t the mother have her own AR, or a pistol? According to the frantic 911 call made by the teen’s mother, there was more than one alligator involved. The...
by Dave Duringer | Jun 21, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
More on the Tumwater incident: “As a volunteer firefighter I have received active shooter training,” George explained. “I was sure what I heard was gunshots.” Police say 44-year old Tim Day went on a shooting and carjacking spree. He tried to carjack a couple...
by Dave Duringer | Jun 19, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
A couple of weeks ago I took a class covering armed defense in carjackings: Advanced Tactical Handgun (or Driver’s Ed, Front Sight style). Two armed citizens were credited with taking action Sunday after a carjacking suspect went on a rampage in Washington...
by Dave Duringer | Jun 19, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Just imagine, if they’d been carrying their guns instead of having to retrieve them from vehicles, a little girl might still have her colon intact, and another girl might still have use of her hand. Gun control hurts little girls. Juan Carlos Nazario, 35,...
by Dave Duringer | Jun 19, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Handgun Combat Webmaster? Sherman Hopkins Jr, 43, broke into the apartment of an internet entrepreneur in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, wearing pantyhose on his head, dark sunglasses, and brandishing a stolen handgun. He demanded that Ethan Deyo, 26, get on his computer...
by Dave Duringer | Mar 21, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use
School attack fizzles due to quick action by good guy with a gun: As school systems across the country debate arming staff, state and local officials praised the actions of the school resource officer who fired at a gunman at Great Mills High School. “He...
by Dave Duringer | Mar 21, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use
Not much detail but it does illustrate the effectiveness of AR for home defense: Three would-be robbers were shot and killed Monday when an Oklahoma homeowner’s son opened fire on them with an AR-15, authorities said. Story...
by Dave Duringer | Feb 27, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use
Officer Simon Drobik says that a 34-year-old good Samaritan, who is not being named since he has not been charged with a crime, saw the attack unfold and intervened. “Once he started walking up, he saw that there was a male violently pistol-whipping a female in...
by Dave Duringer | Dec 29, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use
Stephen Willeford was at his home on the morning of Nov. 5 when his daughter informed him of gunshots being fired at nearby Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church. A man had opened fire on worshipers and was murdering them in droves. Willeford, disregarding...
by Dave Duringer | Dec 23, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use
Shortly after 2 a.m., a 27-year-old man was pulling his vehicle into a back yard lot in the 9100 block of South Blackstone when another male approached and pointed a weapon, according to Chicago Police. The 27-year-old, who has a concealed carry permit, opened...
by Dave Duringer | Dec 23, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Religious Faith
Thomas Aquinas and his treatment of self-defense in his great work Summa Theologiae should be a part of any debate on use of lethal force in self-defense (online here): Question 64. Murder Article 7. Whether it is lawful to kill a man in self-defense? Objection 1. It...
by Dave Duringer | Dec 13, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use
This and other examples of kids using guns in self-defense here.
by Dave Duringer | Dec 9, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use
Starnes says the father isn’t facing charges and that he “really saved the day and protected a lot of people.” Story here.
by Dave Duringer | Nov 27, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use
Another (yawn) mass shooting stopped by a good guy with a gun — this time at a Costco. Anyone else shop at Costco? Good people shop at Costco.
