The only way a gun incident makes it to the big media is if it's negative and thus worthy fodder for their left-wing agenda to deny Americans the rights that they, themselves, would seek to continue to enjoy. Case in point, Feinstein has a concealed carry permit.
http://marketdailynews.com/2013/01/03/d ... ct-myself/
Case in point, the NY paper that outed gun owners has hired armed security.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01 ... uards?lite
This thread will be used by me and anyone else who comes across relevant news stories, ones where the gun was in the hands of a sane law-abiding person and used for their defense. In these instances, the presence and potentially the use of a gun was instrumental in allowing the victim to survive.
I will not entertain the typical kook arguments here. Go play play fantasy land somewhere else. If you post BS, I'll just delete it outright. If you want to post tragedies here to try and water it down, go ahead, but if it's a gun free zone mass shooting expect me to remind you that a good guy with a gun could have stopped that. If you want to try that tired "people would get hit in a crossfire" crap, I will just have to remind you that people were being shot at the assailant's leisure anyway and how is that better? If it's a gun accident, expect me to dissect the situation, point out the human errors that led to the incident and blame the operator because other than malfunctions guns can only kill with human intervention.
No, I would play footsies with you hypocritical, illogical, subversive, whiny ****ers any more. You want em gone. Even if you only want the "assault weapons" gone know that the predominant homicide gun is not a semi automatic rifle with a 30 round magazine. It's not even all rifles. More people die from being beat to death with bare hands than all the long gun shootings. If you claim to want to get rid of guns to "save lives" you are talking about handguns because they are the overwhelming gun in homicides. Assault rifles are just a red herring made to get the ball rolling. In most of these stories of self defense it will be a handgun that turned the tide in favor of the victim. You gun-grabbers are advocating that weapon being taken out of the hands of law-abiding people which would have made these stories read quite differently so after every story I'll remind you of it and ask the question, "why did you want these people to die?"
Case one
http://m.ajc.com/news/news/local/mother ... ots/nTnGR/
That's 3 people still alive because of a gun.The Loganville mother of two assumed the knocks on her front door Friday afternoon were from a solicitor.
“Don’t answer,” she yelled to her 9-year-old twins playing downstairs.
When the visitor began repeatedly ringing the doorbell, she called her husband at work.
“Get the kids and hide,” he told his wife.
As he dialed 911, his 37-year-old spouse, who works from home, collected the children and hid with them in a crawlspace adjoining her office. By that time, the intruder had forced his way into the three-story residence on Henderson Ridge Drive with a crowbar, authorities said. He allegedly rummaged through the home, eventually working his way up to the attic office.
“He opens the closet door and finds himself staring down the barrel of a .38 revolver,” said Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman, who relayed the woman’s narrative to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He asked that her name be withheld.
The woman fired six bullets, five of which hit Paul Ali Slater in the face and neck area, Chapman said. But Slater was still conscious.
“The guy’s face down, crying,” the sheriff said. The woman told him to stay down or she’d shoot again.
Slater, unaware that she had emptied her chamber, obliged as the mother and her children ran to a neighbor’s house.
The injured burglar eventually made it out of the home and into his car, driving away before deputies arrived on the scene. He didn’t get far.
“When you got five bullets in you, it makes you kind of disoriented,” Chapman told the AJC.
Deputies found Slater bleeding profusely in a neighbor’s driveway.
“I’m dying. Help me,” he told them, according to Chapman.
Slater was transported to Gwinnett Medical Center and is expected to survive, the sheriff said.
The Long Island native, who now lives in Gwinnett County, was released from the Gwinnett jail in late August after serving six months for simple battery and three counts of probation violation. Slater has six other arrests in Gwinnett dating back to 2008, according to jail records.
“My wife’s a hero,” the woman’s husband, Donnie Herman, told Channel 2 Action News in a brief statement. He did not respond to a request for comment from the AJC. “She protected her kids. She did what she was supposed to do.”
Chapman remarked that one of his deputies, impressed with the woman’s resolve, told the sheriff she had handled her first shooting better than he had.
“That mother’s instinct kicked in,” Chapman said. “You go after a mother’s kids and she’ll find herself capable of doing things she never thought she was capable of.”
why did you want these people to die?
