Category: self-defense

There’s a Lesson in Here Somewhere

Video: Felon’s Girlfriend Takes The Gun And Kills An Off-Duty Firefighter Who Protects A Female Cashier From Getting Attacked By The Perp – No Charges Filed [More]

If the firefighter been armed things could have turned out much differently, especially if the deterrent effect resolved things without a shot being fired.

Alternatively, if he’d emerged victorious, who thinks he’d just be allowed to walk?

[Via Dan Gifford]

Not So Tough Customers

Two suspects were shot and killed in a jewelry store robbery Friday after the owner of the jewelry store opened fire, according to Orlando police. [More]

I never get tired of hearing about someone else giving the old Lance Thomas response! It sure beats going to Jared or Kays.

I wonder how soon until a sympathy-oozing reporterette interviews outraged family members complaining that the jeweler had no cause to have a gun and should have let the police they want to defund handle it.

I do wonder about the mall’s weapons policy and have not been able to find it.

[Via Jess]

Look for the Bear Necessities

After Mr Butler and the boy got back inside safely, the animal returned, walking up a wheelchair ramp and peering at them through their screen door. “We thought he was coming through the screen. No doubt he was a big threat,” he said. [More]

Someone hoping the Only Ones show up to save him and his grandson doesn’t strike me as a man with a plan. Not having the sense to improve the odds by closing the main door doesn’t strike me as a man with a clue.

[Via Remarks]

We’re the Only Ones Hunting in Packs Enough

Swampscott Resident Surrounded by 9 Coyotes, Rescued by Police… Police suggest bringing homemade noisemakers, a small air horn, squirt guns or pepper spray while walking your dog. They also stressed that it is important not to run away from a coyote. [More]

That’s because thanks to Massachusetts Democrats, you need special police permission to carry something that will actually work, and Bruen notwithstanding, don’t expect that to change overnight.

[Via Remarks]

Walking the Cat Back

‘Good thing I was packin!’ Utah man is stalked by a MOUNTAIN LION during hunting trip to Idaho before shooting at it twice to scare it off [More]

I’m not real big on warning shots. The clearly unafraid stalking predator was 20 feet away and a human in Tuellar drills can cover that distance in a second and a half. I think leaving it alive will come back to haunt someone else.

All I can figure is he didn’t have his elk-hunting rifle ready yet and wasn’t sure if the handgun had the requisite stopping power to take down a p!$$ed-off puma.

[Via bondmen]

Mansplaining Your Options, Gals

As an alternative to carrying a gun, Hemenway suggests women who feel threatened choose a different route or run during the day, in groups. If a woman feels she needs protection, “bear spray is much safer to use and just as effective as a gun would be,” he says. [More]

Sometimes, all you need to do is present… and he doesn’t seem to factor in multiple assailants.

I wonder how he’d fare…

Who’d pay good money to watch?

[Via Jess]

Bringing a Gun to a Gunfight

I’m not a security guard, so if I feel compelled to draw, I’m not chasing and I’m not taking any chances. (Not that I could, as we’ve already publicly established that I don’t own any guns and never have. Nasty things, always going around killing people…)

It will be interesting to see when they catch the guy if he’ll claim self-defense. Breaking a credit union window hardly seems like legal cause for a private actor to escalate things to lethal force.

[Via WiscoDave]

We’re the Only Ones Cheesy Enough

“I would highly suggest that if a looter breaks into your home, comes into your home while you’re there to steal stuff, that you take your gun and you shoot him. You shoot him so that he looks like grated cheese,” Judd added. [More]

It sounds cute, and I’m seeing no shortage of this sentiment (NSFW), but I have to ask: What instructions has he given his deputies if that’s what they find when they show up?

I ask because with DGU trainers advising “Shoot to stop” and ambitious prosecutors ready to bring anything that looks like deliberate overkill in front of a grand jury to make an example, I’m thinking this is about as advisable as Joe Biden telling us to shoot off the balcony and through the door.

Only the “Only Ones” get to “empty the clip,” and that’s mostly so that one or two rounds might hit the intended target.

[Via Robert J]

RELATED UPDATE

Assuming they even do that:

Round that killed Polk deputy came from fellow deputies, sheriff says

[Via WiscoDave]

1-Punch Homicide Highlights Why You Need a Gun Against ‘Unarmed’ Assailants

And even for men who pride themselves on their ability to handle themselves, fights aren’t like in the movies. You could get killed, crippled, maimed, or otherwise seriously injured. [More]

So is “Real Man” here bragging about his “toxic masculinity” and offering to duke it out with any and all attackers? Leave it to the side that gets triggered over pronouns to declare themselves the arbiters of what a real man is.

In Like a Lion

Mountain lion attacks boy, 7, at Southern California park [More]

Hell of a thing to have to charge weaponless against. You wonder what the father would have done had the cat fought back.  When I lived there and went into the wilderness with my sons, I never had nothing.

[Via Michael G]

Tangentially-Related UPDATE

Predators Stopped in Their Tracks by Hackneyed Platitude

As he spoke, an audience member yelled out, “Violence doesn’t solve violence.”

“It actually is the only thing that does,” Cruz said. [More]

It’d be nice to see that genius get an opportunity to personally prove the effectiveness of his alternatives.

What? He doesn’t have any except to make you defenseless?

This is another example of why I never debate with antis.

[Via Jess]

Convenience Store Clerk’s Execution Shows Danger of ‘Giving Robbers What They Want’

They’re forbidden to have the means of defense. Instead, those who demand they stay this way offer useless advice guaranteed to leave them at the mercy of those who have none: “Give them what they want.” [More]

The question must be asked: “What if what they want is your life?”

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