Category: self-defense

Putting the Wild in Wildfires

Animals fleeing the California fires are seeking refuge in residential areas, having been displaced from their natural habitats in the mountains and hills. [More]

Then thank goodness for Giffords “trailblazers”!

[Via Edmund M]

Tangentially-Related UPDATE

Those aren’t the only predators.

Seems as plausible an explanation as any…

[Via WiscoDave]

Moment in the Spotlight

Should you intervene in a mass attack? Is defending a third person legally different from defending yourself? Do you have a duty to retreat in these situations? And what practical considerations should you weigh, like your physical safety and the chaos of multiple 911 calls? Armed Attorneys Emily Taylor and Richard Hayes discuss whether you should stop a mass attack, the legal and practical risks of defending others, and how to protect yourself responsibly in high-threat situations. [More]

Having time to think about it, my inner Rick Blaine wins. Responsible people make their own preparations and irresponsible ones disparage armed citizens.

Without having time to reflect, I suppose the unique situation itself would steer my decision and repercussions would be the last thing on my mind. I know from past experience where I felt the end was near my instincts have been to focus and act, not freeze, and do my shaking afterward.

[Via Jess]

Home Defense-Free Zone

Homeowners in Irving initially came up with the idea of shooting and killing the pigs, but then realized they should not be firing a gun at the animals in a suburban neighborhood. “My first thought was, like, well, I can go shoot them,” Mendez said. “But I’m like, yeah, I’m in a neighborhood. I can’t just go out there and start blasting.” [More]

No, not just “blasting,” but then again, what qualified hunter would characterize it that way? Would he say the same thing if it was a feral human threatening him, and settle for “slingshots and clapping two pieces of wood”?

As long as Cooper’s rules are adhered to, what’s the problem? Who died and made this guy the arbiter of appropriate responses to be selected for national amplification?

Wolf at the Door

Colton Lexus, 30, was arrested Wednesday night after allegedly shooting a man who was kicking his apartment door in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. [More]

Why? That’s a pretty deranged, aggressive and scary action, and it seems a pretty reasonable assumption that if the kicker had succeeded he’d have been a danger to those he could now reach.

Besides, the resident was just following the recognized Gun Safety President’s expert home defense advice.

[Via bondmen]

The Worst Defense is a Bad Offense

Yet Gannon’s defense attorney, Stephen Colella, described Hayes as “someone who, allegedly attending a peaceful rally, saw fit to bring a semiautomatic weapon and 20 rounds, and a person who has, in fact, attended similar rallies in the past similarly armed”… [More]

Yeah, to keep hotheaded lunatics like your 32-year-old buttwad client from attacking his 47-year-old target peaceably exercising his First and Second Amendment recognized rights with potentially lethal force.

This you, Stephen…? I ask not just because of the rather unique name and the same state, but also because of similar seedily manipulative approaches to the law…

[Via Edmund M]

The Children Weren’t Nestled All Snug in Their Beds

Houston man being robbed by children on Christmas shoots them, injuring 3 [More]

At lease we know who was naughty. Or would, if keeping the identities of young predators from the victim pool weren’t policy…

On the bright side, it’s a Christmas present for the prohibitionists, who get to add these child shootings to their “gun violence” stats…

[Via Dan Gifford]

Girl Power!

Homeowner’s Daughter Shoots Alleged Intruder Dead [More]

Based on their own propaganda, the grabbers would rather have seen her brutally slain than have a gun in the house. Preferably shot to death so they could add to their one-sided “statistics”…

I’m reminded of a line I used years ago that shows the difference between them and we whom they brand as paternalistic throwbacks:

What a rabbit you seem compared to the free and confident armed women whom secure and trusting men cherish and admire.

Good ones are out there. To find and then hold onto one, first be true to yourself.

[Via bondmen]

Speaking of Laws Repugnant to the Constitution…

A Bronx bodega worker who allegedly shot an armed robber with a gun he “found” in the store’s bathroom is facing criminal charges — but advocates are calling him a hero. [More]

What kind of real fascists would bring up and pursue charges?

If I were on that jury I’d find him extra not-guilty just for creativity.

[Via Jess]

Drop Dead

Urban Defense EDC: The Drop Wallet [More]

Sorry, but my longstanding response to those who say “Just give them what they want” is to ask “What if what they want is me?”

They’re not threatening violence against the wallet, and anyone stupid, immoral and deranged enough to rob someone can’t be trusted to react rationally and be satisfied with what they surrender.

[Via Michael G]

What Have We Learned?

The final night of a five-week citizens academy produced by the DEA St. Louis Division included a simulated “shoot – don’t shoot” scenario. “It takes literally a quarter of a second to get shot,” said Laura Bethany Strong, a St. Louis area resident after completing the simulation. [More]

And Laura doesn’t have a problem with someone who would do that being the only one with a choice?

[Via bondmen]

By the Numbers

There are an average of 1,820,000 defensive gun uses per year compared to 1,100,000 reported crimes. Only 2.07 million civilians regularly carry a firearm for defense. Civilians are 85% more likely to use a firearm for defense than to be murdered by one. [More]

[Insert name of gungrabber here] would rather you be murdered than armed. Preferably by someone with a gun, to bolster their numbers.

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