Guns Saving Lives

HOUSTON, TEXAS — Two employees volunteered to stay behind at an indoor gun range after a rash of reported burglaries in the area. Around 12:30 a.m., surveillance cameras picked up two vehicles entering the parking lot. The employees watched as four people got out and attempted to break into one of the employee’s vehicles. That’s…

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT — An intruder was neutralized by a single gunshot to the shoulder after he forcibly gained entry into a man’s home at 3:30 a.m., according to New Haven police. Investigators say the occupant of the home heard someone breaking down his front door and readied a registered handgun to defend himself. When…

PLAIN TOWNSHIP, OHIO — When 18-year-old Ronald Henderson arrived in a parking lot under the presumption he was going to buy a phone off another man, he likely anticipated “aggressive negotiations” being part of the bargain. He thought wrong. According to the Akron Beacon Journal, Henderson became “irate” and then got into an altercation with the…

COLUMBUS, OHIO — An armed robber and an unnamed accomplice approached the back door of a family’s home and pretended they needed to use the phone because of car trouble. Taking advantage of the homeowner’s kindness, the main assailant waited until his back was turned and then hit him in the back of the head…

PHOENIX, ARIZONA — An attack against an Arizona DPS trooper occurred on the I-10 outside of Phoenix after a trooper stopped to assist a woman who had been ejected from her truck following a roll-over. He was responding to a call related to a motorist shooting at vehicles. As he set out flares, his attacker…

PHOENIX, ARIZONA — A 17-year-old was shot in the arm by a store clerk after he tried to rob him. The store clerk was the second stop of the evening after the teenager robbed another gas station down the street. As the teenager fled the store where he’d been shot, ABC 15 News reported that…

JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI — At 3:30 a.m., an occupant of a home discovered a man trying to break into her storage room. That’s when she got a gun and went out to deal with him. He saw which way this would go and wisely decided to flee the scene. According to the occupant of the home,…

SUMNER, IOWA — Investigators in Bremer County are still trying to figure out why a man traveled out into rural Iowa to break into a home and exchange gunshots with occupants of that home. In the ensuing fight, one of the residents was also shot but survived the encounter. According to Bremer County Sheriff Dan Pickett’s statement…