Irresponsible Gun Owner

ROYAL PALM BEACH, FLORIDA — Things got heated on July 12th at a Walmart when two men began arguing over wearing masks. 2020 is a wild year, for sure. The non-mask wearing man is facing felony charges after he drew his firearm and pointed it at the mask-wearing man who told him he should be…

By Dan Zimmerman via TTAG What would you do if you discovered a man in your teenage daughter’s bedroom in the middle of the night? Most people would do anything and everything they could to protect her and the rest of the family from the intruder. That’s exactly what a Coweta County, Georgia man did…

ROYAL PALM BEACH, FLORIDA — 2020 is definitely shaping up to be a year of epic proportion. Today’s topic: FL man without mask pulls gun on FL man with mask, after with-mask-man confronts without-mask-man. Ugh. According to reports, the masked man first approached the two men not wearing masks and an argument ensued. Then at…

DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — A 74-year-old woman is dead after police say she was negligently shot by someone firing into the air in celebration of the 4th of July. What goes up must come down, and in this case it came down and killed an innocent person, who lived 74 years only to be taken…

*facepalm* For those who don’t know the term ‘DGU’, it stands for Defensive Gun Use. There are also Bad DGU’s, which is exactly what we’re going to be taking a look at in today’s Irresponsible Gun Owner story. A few days ago in Spokane, Washington, a couple held a woman at gunpoint as she sat…

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE — An 88-year-old liquor store owner, May Boyce, shot an alleged shoplifter, although she says she didn’t mean to hit him and instead just scare him. We know that warning shots are never a good thing, but her warning shot ended up striking the man in the back. She told police she grabbed her…

ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA — A property owner was alerted by neighbors that a man had been staying on his property, so the property owner and a friend went to investigate. First off, call the police and have them investigate. Why get involved in a potentially dangerous situation? When they got there, they found a small…

BRIDGEVIEW, ILLINOIS — A pair of brothers are lucky to not have charges pressed against them after chasing down a robbery suspect, only to get into a shootout and shoot him in the back. So many things in this story are messy when it comes to defending yourself, and we cannot overlook them. The male…