Defensive Gun Uses (Part 2)

"Liberals" continue to deny the reality of defensive gun uses.  National media outlets refuse to cover them.  If a psychotic Obamaphile kills 12 people in a "gun free" military installation, he receives international wall to wall coverage (not the Obamaphile part, that would damage the narrative).  But if a pregnant woman in Texas defends herself and her unborn child from two home invaders with a gun... not a peep from the national media. 

In the internet age, however, it's easy to find the coverage local media outlets provide.  Therefore, "Liberals" who claim to not know about defensive gun uses are clearly willfully ignorant.

Let's start with this one from Atlanta.

She said a neighbor armed with a gun of his own came outside and chased the men off after hearing her screams.  

"He pushed me straight down on my chest," Mallory Hastings said.  

"That's when he started to reach in my shirt and tear at my shirt." 

Hastings said she took the $300 she earned in tips that day and handed it over. The men also took her iPhone, purse and identification.  

"I had my hands straight up. When he put the gun to my face and I was just screaming "No, no, no, no, no," Hastings said. 

A neighbor heard those screams and came running outside. Hastings describes the neighbor as ex-military and said he was armed with his own gun as the two men attacking her ran to a car parked nearby and drove off toward Peachtree Road. 

In Rockford, Illinois, an armed home owner stopped two thugs on a crime spree.

A Rockford home-owner fights back after police say the man shot at 2 suspects accused of breaking into 5 homes this morning. The crime-spree happened in the city’s Churchill Grove Neighborhood which is near Harlem Blvd.....Police have arrested an 18-year-old man believed to be responsible multiple burglaries in the Rockford area. 

Antrone Cook was arrested shortly after noon on September 6th, 2013 in the 1300 block of Taylor Street. 

Rockford Police Detectives conducted additional follow up on Cook’s involvement in Residential Burglaries within the City of Rockford. Cook was charged with the following: 

Residential Burglary 804 Soper Avenue (warrant)
Residential Burglary 1804 Genoa Street 

Additional Burglaries cleared as a result of Cook’s arrest include the following: 

733 Hartford (Burglary to Vehicle)
1319 Boilvin (Residential Burglary)
1005 Furman Street (Residential Burglary)
1220 Taylor Street (Residential Burglary)
1507 Sherman Avenue (Residential Burglary)

Elsewhere in Illinois, "gun free" Chicago is the murder capital of the US.  We wouldn't want all those vulnerable South Side residents to have the means with which do defend themselves from all the gang violence in their neighborhoods.

In Jacksonville, Florida, an armed convenience store employee defended himself, his fellow employees, customers and store from two armed robbers.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office responded to a reported robbery late Friday night at Hungry Howie's on Normandy Boulevard. 

According to JSO at the scene, two robbers armed with handguns entered the Hungry Howie's. 

One of the employees of Hungry Howie's then shot at the robbers. One of the robbers is in life-threatening condition and the other robber escaped.  

In Powell, Tennessee, a business owner used a shotgun to defend against a burglar.

A man who was shot Sunday morning as he was allegedly breaking into a Powell business is now charged with theft, criminal trespass, and burglary. 

Michael Johnson, 26, was shot and wounded early Sunday during the alleged break-in at Lett Construction, 101 W Beaver Creek Dr. 

Knox County investigators say James Lett saw Johnson breaking into the business, and when Johnson tried to flee Lett fired three warning shots with a 12-guage shotgun. 

At least one of those shots hit Johnson, but he continued to flee. 

Finally, an oldie but goodie from Texas, in which an armed citizen helped save a police officer in a stand-off with a criminal.

Stacy raised his gun, fired, and landed one hell of a shot – by his estimate “a good 165 yards” – with a pistol (we do not know the make or caliber at this time). Stacy wasn’t even sure if he could make the shot at that distance: “I hope this magnum bullet’ll hold up, you know, this distance. And sure enough it did and I hit him in the thigh.”....Stacy “hit him again and put three more in him … The patrolman got two shots in him with that AR-15. And it seems like he’s all over with, then.”

As always, it's impossible to know how any of these cases would have ended if no armed citizen had been present.  However, we can be reasonably certain that in at least some of these cases, innocent people would've been killed or wounded.

The person best qualified to decide whether or not a gun is the best tool to use against a violent criminal is a person at the scene of the crime, not some distant politician, government bureaucrat or "Liberal" talking head behind multiple layers of armed security guards.