Ever use a gun to defend yourself or family?

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MustangSally

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If so.... the Second Amendment Sisters could use your help. John Stossel is planning on doing a piece related to this topic (and SAS). This would be a great opportunity to drive our point home.

SAS is in need of stories pertaining to using a firearm to defend yourself or a loved one.... or any stories pertaining to your loved one using a firearm to defend themselves or family members.

PLEASE CONTACT SAS AT MOMS4GUNS@YAHOO.COM
 
I haven't had to yet and I hope I'm not without a firearm when the time may come. I can send you several stories of other people using firearms for protection if you'd like. John Stossel is one reporter that seems to dig up facts rather than relying on opinions. I hope Stossel keeps up some of the good work that he has done in the past, I guess only time will tell.

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"Gun Control Only Protects Those in Power"

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Twice. The first time I drew down on a punk crawling into my bedroom window. He beat a hasty retreat. The second time, I merely let my coat open far enough to dissuade a gang of losers to leave me and the missus alone; they did.
 
Mustang Sally No But when I was child 4 or my mother shot an intruder an he was trying to gan forciable entry and, myself Grew up in Florida in the country wher the wild life is dangerous many snakes, and gators and a bobcat were eliminated as threts to people and live stock were eliminated
 
Used a .45 to disuade a third time looser that being in my house illegally and being closer to my son than me was a very poopr place to be. As with most uses of a weapon to disolve a hostile situation, no shots were fired, he ran and was later arrested and remains to this day behind bars!

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I thought I'd seen it all, until a 22WMR spun a bunny 2 1/4 times in the air!
 
Not in any physical way. I do however continue to pay my life insurance premiums, and I'm still alive and kicking. It's just one of those things, ya know?
 
Robert A. Waters authored "The Best Defense: True stories of intended victims who defended themselves with a firearm". I bought it at Amazon.com. Possibly Mr. Waters is reachable through his publisher for even more detail.

As well, the NRA's "Guardian" magazine, which may be bi-monthly, contains stories of this nature.

Regards
 
I've never had to shoot, but I did have to display to a couple of bangers. Didn't have to draw, either; they saw it and ran like bunnies. :)
 
I also have never had to shoot, but once drew on a looser climbing into my window... Ran like the wind when he saw the Glock.
 
Well as with most replys so far, I have not had to draw yet. But the instructor for my firearms safety course that I had to take to get my CCW license here in OK, said that if we felt like it was needed, then you'd better do it and go to work. He said if we just "flash" it then we are opening ourselves up for a lawsuit. The criminal can go to the police and say that he was minding his own business when you flashed your piece and you can be arrested. The CCW laws here say that the weapon must be concealed completely. Even if you accidentally flash it you can lose your license and possibly be prosecuted. He also said when you "go to work" with you weapon you'd better put out at least 2 shots and more if they are still trying to flee. We asked about shooting someone in the back and he said to tell the cops "Well they shouldn't have turned away when I pulled the trigger. I don't think I could go ahead and squeeze if he had already taken a few steps away and had his back to me, but I practice so that by the time he sees that I have a gun, he also knows it's loaded........ and he will be able to tell by the muzzle-flash.

He went into a pretty good demonstration that when somebody is shot, they usually do weird things. Think about the last time you encountered an angry wasp nest, if they were coming at you, you were probably doing a pretty good dance and swat to try to keep them off you. That's how I pictured his demo since I have had that exact thing happen (with wasps). The human brain will react and make your body turn and spin while your arms flail around trying to ward off some of those wasps, or bullets if that be the case.
I don't want to have to take a life, but if the occasion arrises and I feel that a life is threatened, I will not hesitate to end a criminals career.
 
Had a guy try to get in the back door of my home, in Abilene, Texas, but the door was locked. I went into the bedroom for my 1911, and the idiot came around and walked in the front door, by the living room, where my wife and children were sitting, watching TV. I had a clear shot down the hall, the LR was to the right, so I went into combat crouch and aimed. I had to replace the hinges on the screen door the following day, he took the door down leaving the house!
 
I've already posted an article with Second Amendment Sisters about three cases in which women used guns to defend themselves. I'll contact them with additional stories and see if they want to publish them. Thanks for the support of everyone who purchased my book. Robert
 
Yeah, once (so far). A guy I'd went to school with. Wife was awaken by noises in th eback of the house. Anyway, I stopped the whole thing with a tap on the glass with the muzzle of the slabside I had at the time. No shots fired.
For the record, my gun was taken, and checked (WTF, ???) for 3 days, before I got it back. AND the incident was written up as though a gun was used during the commission of a crime. As told by the OIC at the scene. I was original owner of that firearm, and sold it shortly afterward..

Best Regards,
Don

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The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms; history shows that all conquerers who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall.
Adolf Hitler
 
Twice- both times I caught someone attempting to break into my house. Both times the criminals ran. The sheriff's deputies caught one. Poor baby had messed his pants. :)

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Once an idiot smashed my window downstairs and unlocked the door. I went down with my shotgun. At the sight of my 12 ga, he high-tailed and ran. Unfortunately, he wasn't caught grrrrrrr
 
Once.

Was working in the French Quarter in New
Orleans. Our parking lot was across the
street from the t.v. station; about
seventy yards away.

It was afternoon. I noticed a young boy,
about fourteen, on the other side of the
street, coming my direction and watching
me with more than passing interest.

As we made eye contact, he pulled a switch
blade knife and began to cross over toward
me. I gave him a few seconds to make sure
of his intent. At that point, I stopped
and began to reach for my revolver. At the
same time a woman who had been watching
from an apartment balcony, shouted to the
boy. She apparently knew him.
The youngster was clearly startled by
the witness. He crossed back to his side
of the street. I went about my business
with an extra quart of adrenalin in my
system.
 
This may or may not be of use to SAS. My grandmother (long ago dead), kept a loaded gun in her bedroom. Single parent with 5 kids and no gun accidents ever. She fired twice - once at a 'peeping Tom' - who would now be considered a stalker or rapist I suppose and once at some guys trying to steal her geese. This all took place in the 20's - 30's. Didn't hit anyone, but was never bothered again. My mother can verify the story. I also have a great picture of mom on her 82nd birthday firing a gun
 
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