Blue Madness
2024-02-05 21:25:37 UTC
The United States is a criminal enterprise thanks to corrupt Democrats
who feel the laws are for everyone else - but not them or their
favored ethnic or social outcasts of the moment.
An average of national surveys found about 2 million instances ofwho feel the laws are for everyone else - but not them or their
favored ethnic or social outcasts of the moment.
defensive use of guns occur per year
Americans have frequently used legal guns to thwart crimes, defend
themselves or their homes and even stop mass shootings. Some estimates
suggest instances of firearms being used in self-defense stretch into the
millions yearly.
"Having a gun is by far the safest course of action when people are facing
a criminal by themselves," Dr. John Lott, an economist and president of
the Crime Prevention Research Center, told Fox News Digital earlier this
year.
Lott believes that the media has dramatically undercounted the amount of
times Americans use guns in self-defense, saying in a typical year there
are only about 2,000 news stories about defensive use of guns. That number
is more likely to stretch into the millions, Lott said, pointing to an
average of 18 national surveys that estimated guns are used in self-
defense about 2 million times per year.
"The vast majority of successful self-defense cases dont make the news,"
Lott said.
With that trend continuing into 2022, here are five cases in which armed
citizens were able to defend themselves and others this year.
Texas homeowner defends children by fatally shooting intruder twice in the
chest
A San Antonio homeowner defended several adults and multiple small
children in his home in December by confronting an intruder with his
handgun.
San Antonio police say the homeowner heard someone attempting to break
into the side window of his home around 6 p.m. earlier this month,
prompting him to grab his gun to confront the intruder. The homeowner
fired two shots, striking the intruder in the chest.
TEXAS HOMEOWNER FATALLY SHOOTS INTRUDER TWICE IN THE CHEST
Emergency personnel arrived and attempted to perform CPR on the intruder,
but the man was pronounced dead at the home.
New Orleans mom, an Iraq war veteran, defends 2-year-old child with gun
A Louisiana mom and Air Force veteran was sitting in gridlocked traffic on
the interstate with her 2-year-old son in February when an intruder
attempted to enter her vehicle, prompting her to pull out a gun.
"You shouldn't have to navigate your own city like a war zone. It's un-
American," Charise Taylor, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, told WDSU.
"The crime is out of control, and it's terrifying. At this point, having
to use the same tactics in an American city that you use in Iraq and
Afghanistan simply to navigate through the city, it's scary, and I'm not
the only mom feeling this way."
"I'm trained to do this. I've gone to classes. I'm prior military. If I
have to pull this trigger, that's what I have to do."
Taylor was on her way to pick up her husband in New Orleans when the
dramatic incident unfolded. According to Taylor, a group of people in a
truck motioned at her in the slow-moving traffic to let them into her
lane. When she declined, a man approached her passenger door and attempted
to pull the handle.
NEW ORLEANS MOM, IRAQ WAR VET, PULLS GUN ON MAN TRYING TO ENTER HER CAR:
'LOCKED AND LOADED'
"So, as he comes up, he's close, and he's pretty aggressive trying to get
the car door open, makes eye contact with me, he's still trying to get it
open a couple times," Taylor said.
That's when Taylor said she pulled out her gun, warning the suspect the
gun was "locked and loaded."
The intruder ran off without Taylor firing a shot, but the mother said she
would have used the weapon if necessary to protect her son.
"The emotions honestly, your body takes in a different form. I stayed in
my body of course, but everything transformed. I'm trained to do this.
I've gone to classes. I'm prior military. If I have to pull this trigger,
that's what I have to do," Taylor said.
Armed Florida man uses gun to stop vicious attack on pregnant woman
An armed Florida man stepped up to defend a pregnant woman who was being
assaulted by the father of her unborn child in a Publix parking lot.
According to the Pinellas County Sheriffs Office, 27-year-old Cole Joseph
Danisment began brutally assaulting the mother of his unborn child, who
was 14 weeks pregnant at the time, after an argument in the pharmacy
parking lot in December. Danishment began punching her in the face several
times and continued the attack by stomping on her head after she had
fallen to the ground.
ARMED BYSTANDER IN FLORIDA STOPS ATTACK ON PREGNANT WOMAN
That's when a nearby witness who believed the attack was "so brutal in
nature" that he feared for the woman's life, stepped in, pulling out his
gun on Danisment and ending the attack.
Officers who later arrived said the woman was "covered in large amounts of
blood" and may have suffered a broken nose as a result of the attack.
Arizona employee stops shooter in parking lot of Amazon facility
A Chandler, Arizona, man was called a "good Samaritan" by police after he
halted a shooting in the parking lot of an Amazon facility and likely
prevented further bloodshed
Police say 29-year-old Jacob Murphy pulled into the employee parking lot
of an Amazon facility in December, jumped out of his car and began opening
fire on employees in the lot. Murphy did not work at the Amazon facility
but reportedly had "jealousy issues" with his girlfriend, who worked at
the facility.
According to police, Murphy set out to find a male employee of the
facility that he only knew by his first name. But when he attempted to
enter the building, he was confronted by an employee who thought it was
"strange" Murphy was attempting to gain access to the facility. An
argument between Murphy and the employee unfolded before Murphy fired
multiple shots.
ARMED AMAZON EMPLOYEE STOPS SHOOTER WHO OPENED FIRE AT ARIZONA FACILITY:
'GOOD SAMARITAN'
That's when an armed employee of the facility noticed what was unfolding
and pulled out his firearm, firing at Murphy and wounding him.
"He did come to the aid of an individual who was shot by a suspect. So, in
that case, I would say he is a good Samaritan," police said of the
incident.
Murphy was found dead in the parking lot by police when they arrived.
Police said Murphy died of the gunshot wound from the armed employee and a
self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Tactically sound armed 'good Samaritan' puts stops to Indiana mall mass
shooting
An armed Indiana man was at the Greenwood Park Mall with his girlfriend in
July when 20-year-old Jonathan Sapirman entered the mall with multiple
semi-automatic rifles, a pistol and over 100 rounds of ammunition and
began opening fire on patrons in the food court.
Sapirman was able to fatally shoot three people and injure two others
before he was confronted by 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken, who was legally
carrying a pistol under Indiana's new permitless-carry law.
Dicken approached the gunman from a distance of 40 yards and fired 10
rounds at Sapirman, striking him eight times and ultimately killing him.
POLICE SAY 'GOOD SAMARITAN' PREVENTED FURTHER LOSS OF LIFE IN INDIANA MALL
SHOOTING: 'TACTICALLY SOUND'
Police hailed Dicken as a "good Samaritan" and praised his actions as
"tactically sound" despite his lack of military or law enforcement
experience, saying his actions prevented further loss of life in the
shooting.
"Many more people would have died last night if not for the responsible
armed citizen," Greenwood Police Chief James Ison said at the time.
"His actions were nothing short of heroic. He engaged the gunman from
quite a distance with a handgun. He was very proficient in that, very
tactically sound. And as he moved to close in on the suspect, he was also
motioning for people to exit behind him."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/foiled-five-times-armed-citizens-fought-back-
against-attackers-2022