Recently, I watched Piers Morgan's interview with Emily Miller. During the interview, Ms Miller cited Gary Kleck's study that concluded that Americans use guns to defend themselves from criminals 2.5 million times per year.
Morgan replied that he doesn't believe the figure because "you never see them on the news". Ms Miller, rightly, responded that media "Liberals" like Morgan suppress news stories about ordinary people using their guns to defend themselves from criminals. As Ms Miller points out, it's because of this suppression that most Americans don't know that their fellow Americans use guns to defend themselves far more often than criminals use guns to commit crimes.
Fortunately, local news outlets are far more likely to cover DGUs than national media. Even more fortunately, in the internet age we can access this local coverage from anywhere. Morgan and his ilk are un-educate-able. They're willfully ignorant. They've reached a conclusion, and no amount of facts will convince them otherwise.
But not everyone follows Morgan's example. Some people actually look at facts align their beliefs with them. So, I thought I'd start compiling some of the DGUs I see online for those who are willing to look at the facts.
Let's start with Kari Bird.
Kari Bird, a mother of three and a law school student, was returning to her home in Indianapolis, Indiana around 11:30 p.m. last Wednesday when a group of young men approached her, pulled out a gun, and demanded the keys to her vehicle.
Speaking of carjackings, this one almost happened in Houston.
The victim told police he had just rented a couple of movies from the Redbox outside the restaurant when he was forced out of his car and pushed on the ground by two men.
Police said the men were apparently going after the victim’s car. The carjacking victim pulled out a gun and shot both men. One died at the scene while the other one ran away wounded. Police said a third suspect drove away in the getaway car.
In another one from Houston, a homeowner defended his family from a naked home invader.
In another one from Texas, a pregnant woman who used to be anti-gun defended herself from two drugged-up home invaders with a gun her husband insisted she learn to use.
I was against him buying a gun maybe 7-8 months ago, but I told him, ‘I don’t know if I told you, thank you for doing that’ because it changed the situation completely
Why, yes. Yes, it did. A gun is the only tool that gives an ordinary person - even an untrained one - the power to turn the tables on bigger, stronger, even more numerous assailants.
In Little Rock, a pharmacy owner armed with a Glock .45 stopped an attempted robber armed with a machete.
Police are searching for a man who was armed with a machete when he tried to rob a pharmacy last week but was stopped when the owner pulled out a gun.
Police say when the man raised the machete, the shop owner pulled a .45 Glock pistol and the suspect took off.
Like the vast majority of DGU's, this one ended with zero shots fired, which is one reason they don't get reported. It doesn't bleed, so it doesn't lead.
Here's one that actually made national headlines. In Missouri, a store clerk who openly carries his pistol stopped an armed robber. Again, no shots fired.
An armed man entered the store and pointed a gun at Jon Alexander. But the clerk, a 30-year veteran of the military, quickly pushed the robber’s gun away and drew his own — placing the gun at the robber’s mouth. The would-be robber held his gun at his side and quickly backed out of the store.
Finally (for now), in Kansas City, a home owner defended himself, his wife and their 18-month-old child from an invader, fatally ending the dirt bag's crime spree.
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Obviously, we can't know what would've happened to each of these people if they'd been disarmed as "Liberals" desire. We can be reasonably certain, however, that at least some of them would be dead, some grievously injured.
The question is this: who knows better if an individual facing a dangerous criminal should defend him/herself and his/her family with a gun - the individual facing the criminal, or some distant "Liberal" politician or pundit safe behind an armed security detail?
Guns are the most effective self defense tools available to the ordinary person today. Those who wish to disarm ordinary people, would deprive ordinary people of the most effective tool with which to defend themselves and their families, thereby violating their right to defend themselves and their families.
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