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By Dan Zimmerman via TTAG Last week, a deranged sociology professor at the College of Central Nevada shot himself in the arm in a campus bathroom because, he said, he wanted to protest the existence of the Trump administration. He was charged with a variety of felonies and has since been banned from the campus. But according…
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Via TTAG You’d think that living in one of the nation’s reddest states, Oklahoma, might make you think twice about trying to break into a man’s house while threatening his daughter. But that idea didn’t make its way through the skull of a 20-something-year-old man in Tulsa, who was shot twice in the chest by his…
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HOUSTON, TEXAS — It was 1 am when a man wearing a yellow bandanna walked into a Whataburger and began shooting at people behind the counter. Police say the 10 customers inside the restaurant at 7629 West Bellfort got out quickly as a security guard shot and killed an armed robber. “I was literally about…
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Random Thoughts: Here are 4 Reasons Why Using Keys as Your Self Defense Tool Is a Terrible Idea
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Using keys as your go-to self defense tool is stupid. I can’t count how many people — often younger women who were instructed by their high school teacher to do this — tell me that they don’t need to carry a firearm, or even pepper spray, because they’ll just use their keys as claws. Here…
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VILLA RICA, GEORGIA — When a man attempted to rob a Waffle House at gunpoint last Thursday, he probably wasn’t betting on an armed citizen being inside the restaurant at the time. And when he attempted, that armed citizen fired. After being shot, the suspect dropped what was later discovered to be a bb gun.…
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MADISON, WI — A Wisconsin man woke up in his home to find a random thug stuck in his window, trying to weasel his way inside. Fortunately for the man, he had enough time to sprint to his safe, retrieve his firearm, and confront the intruder. As WMTV reports: A Madison man went to his…
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – Police pulled over a vehicle for a traffic stop when the man started to flee. Officers were able to box him in, and then all hell broke loose. The chaos erupted just after 5 p.m. when Duarte, a four-year-veteran of the department, and his partner tried to pull over a vehicle in…
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ORANGE COUNTY, FL — A man, terrified for his life, opened fire on the person he was trying to buy cell phones from in a Florida shopping center, the Osceola News-Gazette reports. The would-be robber, presumably trying to psych himself up for the robbery, made a number of threats and made a show of getting…
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PASADENA, CA — A man tried to hold a thug at gunpoint in the middle of the night for getting into unlocked cars and stealing near-worthless items, the Pasadena Star-News reports. Fortunately, the man had the presence of mind to not fire on the retreating thief once he made a bolt for it, and police…
