Oh yeah. My DH's great-grandmother was alone in her home one night (in the country, no neighbors nearby) and heard someone trying to break in her front door. She went and grabbed her 12 gauge shotgun and stood in the living room and when he got the door open, she said, "If you step foot in that doorway, I will blow your head off." He sure as shit did not step foot in her home that night. She was 86 years old.

Luckily, mass crimes are VERY rare.

penguinsix wrote:The NRA used to release weekly lists of self-defense uses of firearms. I found a couple of other sites on the net that do the same:

http://gunssavelives.net
http://gunowners.org/sk0802.htm
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcInfoBase.asp?CatID=43

I clicked on these stories. I don't understand how these are examples of guns saving lives. They are simply examples of somebody having a gun when their home was broken into, (amidst other news stories with a conservative focus like "Hotel clerk forces disabled vet to slide down staircase.") My understanding is that people are asking for an example of where a gun specifically saved a life -- like the gun lovers who are saying that, had they been in the Aurora movie theater, they would have taken down the shooter. Has there ever been such an incidence -- of a gun carrying person stopping a crime that he came upon? I'm not talking about someone who fortuitously owned a gun when their house was broken into. I'm talking about someone saving a life because they had a gun and stopped a mass crime.

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please point to a story where strict gun control reduces gun deaths? DC has the strictest controls in the country, but some of the worse gun violence in the country. Ever occur to anyone that there is a major breakdown in the fabric of families? Particularly a near complete absence of responsible fathers?

A judge I know once said that none of the people that showed up in courtroom came from a functional family. It didn't matter if the parents were married, or the dad had never been around, something about the family wasn't functioning properly.

My daughter wasn't raped because she was carrying. I'll take it.

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please point to a story where strict gun control reduces gun deaths? DC has the strictest controls in the country, but some of the worse gun violence in the country. Ever occur to anyone that there is a major breakdown in the fabric of families? Particularly a near complete absence of responsible fathers?

You can thank slavery for that. It's the gift that keeps giving.

Can someone please point to a story where strict gun control reduces gun deaths? DC has the strictest controls in the country, but some of the worse gun violence in the country. Ever occur to anyone that there is a major breakdown in the fabric of families? Particularly a near complete absence of responsible fathers?

On the closer she just almost killed the rapist murderer guy before he killed the eye witnes...or do you mean reality?

No. And I read a lot of news stories. I also have three close friends/relatives who are handgun owners, and while two of the three have had breakins, they were not able to use the gun in self-defense. One could not access the (locked up) gun in time. The other was not home, and his gun was stolen in the robbery and later used to murder someone in another state.

No, but someone in my family was shot in the head by a crack addict during a robbery. Needless to say, I think guns end more innocent lives than they save.

Last two posts are same story

There was the very young mother in Oklahoma? who fended off a man or men? who were trying to break down her door to her home. She was home alone with her baby in a rural area. This was about 18 mos? ago and it was all over CNN etc.

She was super brave and clear-headed. Maybe somebody can find the link. I remember being so impressed with her

There was a story about a young mom (18, I think) who shot and killed a man trying to break into her trailer. She was on the phone with 911 as they (guy killed and another guy) were trying to break into her home. She asked if she could shoot them. Don't remember what the operator told her.

There was that 14 year old in Arizona who recently shot an intruder.

just one?

it would have to be a personal or hunting gun, and not used by a military or police officer?

i don't think i have ever read anything about how Joe Sam heroically saved his family from certain death from the armed intruder by quick thinking and unlatching his gun case and then getting his bullets and putting them together and then shooting the intruder.

you'd think the NRA would be all over spreading these stories.