Armed citizens making a difference thread.

**Story** · October 30th, 2022, 07:42 AM

Booking photo is priceless.

Kokomo police reported that Marrell Tyler, 18, received multiple facial injuries when he broke into the Annex of Kokomo apartments on Thursday at 3:25 a.m. Police responded quickly but arrived to find Tyler beat up and held at gunpoint, thanks to the actions of three men who had been inside the first apartment he had entered.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/indiana-r...-in-police-say

**Walleye Hunter** · October 30th, 2022, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by Story

Booking photo is priceless.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/indiana-r...-in-police-say

Whoa! They gived him a fat lip and a black eye.

**gamer_jim** · November 2nd, 2022, 10:27 AM

October 30, 2022 Edinburg TX:
"A Texas mom successfully chased off a suspected burglar after locking herself and her children in a bedroom and opening fire on the man."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-mom...oom-opens-fire

**Story** · November 28th, 2022, 01:28 PM

A 23-year-old woman with a concealed-carry permit defended herself against four armed men who attempted to carjack her last week on the South Side of Chicago. The woman, who remains unidentified, was sitting in her car in the Calumet Heights neighborhood just after 2 a.m. on Wednesday near 89th Street and Kenwood Avenue when four men spilled out of a black sedan, according to a local CBS affiliate. When one of the men attempted to open her car door while holding a gun, the woman shot the would-be carjacker in the head before running away from the car. One of the other men reportedly shot her in the left arm, and she was later taken to Advocate Trinity Hospital in fair condition.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-w...174807246.html

**Story** · December 4th, 2022, 09:20 PM

An armed bystander intervened to stop a brutal attack on a pregnant woman at a Publix parking lot in Florida.

The Pinellas County Sheriff*s Office said 27-year-old Cole Joseph Danisment became angry with the mother of his unborn child and began brutally beating her in a Publix parking lot Saturday, punching her in the face several times during the attack, according to a report from WFLA. Danisment continued his attack after the victim, who was 14 weeks pregnant with his child at the time, even after she fell to the ground, stomping on her head and upper body.

Police say at the point a witness near the attack believed it was "so brutal in nature" that he feared for the woman's life, spurring him to intervene by pulling out his firearm on Danisment and causing him to stop the attack. Officers responding at the scene say the attack left the woman "covered in large amounts of blood," and may have resulted in a broken nose.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...e185a8fbacfd9b

**MikeinPhilly** · December 4th, 2022, 09:22 PM

But but but there was a PFA that was supposed to protect her. Next time she should consider a sidearm

**Story** · December 6th, 2022, 02:41 PM

One man crime spree gets blunted.

Then, police said he ended up back in Philadelphia, where he tried to rob a convenience store in the area of 68th Street and Ogontz Avenue. The store employee had a gun as well, and he traded at least one shot with Austin. No one was physically injured.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...38107faecd4cc4

**ImminentDanger** · December 15th, 2022, 10:04 PM

CDC Pressured to Delete Defensive Gun Use Stats
By Jeffrey Rodack | Thursday, 15 December 2022 12:04 PM EST
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/cd...15/id/1100648/

References to a study citing defensive gun use statistics were removed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) after gun control advocates complained the information would make passing new restrictions more difficult, The Reload reported.

Citing emails it obtained, The Reload noted the lobbying culminated with a private meeting between the gun control advocates and CDC officials. It said introductions from the White House and the office of Sen.. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., helped lead the way for the advocates to reach the CDC officials to begin with.

Sparking the advocates' complaints was the CDC's description of its review of studies that estimated defensive gun uses [DGU] occur between 60,000 and 2.5 million times per year in the U.S.

The Reload said Mark Bryant, who heads the Gun Violence Archive, wrote: "[T]hat 2.5 million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again," Mark Bryant, one of the attendees, had written to CDC officials after their meeting. "It is highly misleading, is used out of context and I honestly believe it has zero value * even as an outlier point in honest DGU discussions.

"And while that very small study by [criminologist] Gary Kleck has been debunked repeatedly by everyone from all sides of this issue [even Kleck] it still remains canon by gun rights folks and their supporting politicians and is used as a blunt instrument against gun safety regulations every time there is a state or federal level hearing," he wrote in the same email.

"Put simply, in the time that study has been published as 'a CDC Study' gun violence prevention policy has ground to a halt, in no small part because of the misinformation that small study provided."

The CDC initially stood behind the description in the defensive gun use section of its "fast fact" website on gun violence, but backtracked after a previously undisclosed virtual meeting with the advocates on Sept. 15, 2021, according to The Reload.

"We are planning to update the fact sheet in early 2022 after the release of some new data," Beth Reimels, Associate Director for Policy, Partnerships, and Strategic Communication at the CDC*s Division of Violence Prevention, said in one email to the three advocates on Dec. 10. "We will also make some edits to the content we discussed that I think will address the concerns you and other partners have raised."

The CDC did not respond to a request for comment on the decision.

Meanwhile, a majority of Americans in a November Gallup survey said they support stricter gun laws [57%], but overall support has dipped slightly since the spring, when 66% supported it.

The poll showed another 32% of Americans said gun laws should remain as they are now, and 10% would like to see the laws more lenient.

**Story** · December 23rd, 2022, 11:56 AM

I'll call this as a *maybe* with the information available -

The suspect climbed into a window of a building on the 2700 block of Germantown Avenue at around 4:30 a.m., authorities told Daily Voice. Once inside, the resident shot him. The suspect was rushed to Temple University Hospital where he was placed in critical condition, authorities said. Police described the suspect as a Latino man in his 20s but did not reveal his name. The weapon was recovered at the scene, and police "held" the accused shooter for questioning, according to the department. The investigation is ongoing, detectives added.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...e4baf8909bd6cc

**Story** · February 6th, 2023, 11:33 AM

"A brief struggle took place between the store clerk and one of the suspects who pulled out a firearm," the East Hartford Police Department reported. Police identified the store employee as a clerk, though NBC Connecticut reported it was the store owner who was on the premises working late that night.

Two men wearing black ski masks entered the clothing store Humble & Paid Co. just after 10:30 p.m. on Thursday with the intention of robbing the store, the police said in a press release.

The store owner was subsequently shot in the back by one of the suspects but managed to return fire with two of his legally-owned firearms.

The store owner was able to strike one of the suspects multiple times, while the other suspect reportedly fled during the first struggle during the incident, according to police.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...5daf5c14b43066