This Is What Gun Control Advocates Are Trying To Stop...



when they oppose wider issuance of concealed weapon permits. From the Northwest Indiana Times:

MERRILLVILLE -- A 28-year-old Gary woman said she knew what it meant Tuesday when she noticed the man holding a gun to her head was wearing gloves.



She figured she was going to die.



"I've called police on him before. He's tried to threaten me and my entire family. ... He was going to kill me," she said. "He's a friend who wanted to be more than a friend, and it's not possible."



But, the outcome of the incident took a turn when the woman pulled out her own 9 mm pistol and shot her abductor in the mouth, police said.



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The woman said she was sitting in her car about 9 p.m. at CVS Pharmacy, 5301 Broadway, when two men in another vehicle blocked her car from moving.



A security officer came out of the pharmacy, and the men moved their vehicle, she said. But once the security guard went back inside the building, the men allegedly blocked her vehicle again and forced her into their car at gunpoint.



She said they then drove to an isolated wooded area in Gary and parked, with one of the men continuing to point a gun at her head.



While they were still in the car, a man came out of a nearby house and approached the vehicle.



She said while her abductor rolled down the car window and was momentarily distracted, she pulled out a handgun she had on her hip.

Funny, but I just received an email from a well-known academic who claimed that legitimate defensive gun uses are quite rare.



UPDATE: Ah, what the heck. I'll start adding to this entry with all the defensive gun shooting outside of the victim's home, so that I can provide a detailed list for this supposed scholar that such incidents are actually quite common. For example, this incident from September 23.

Lopez allegedly raised a gun toward Hyatt as Hyatt tried to leave the scene with the woman in her car. Hyatt stopped the car, got out and shot the victim in the chest with his .44-caliber Magnum.



"He was either going to shoot at her or at him," said Crowley, adding that interviews with witnesses substantiate Hyatt's claim that the shooting was self-defense. "Everything right now points to justifiable homicide."



Crowley said the man then fired at Hyatt but missed, leading to Hyatt's second shot, which hit the man's lower torso. The man died at the scene. His girlfriend, who ran when the shooting began, returned to the scene when police arrived.

On September 16 in Buffalo, New York.

A gunman attempting to rob a Northland Avenue convenience store is dead after he fired a shot at a clerk Monday afternoon and the store owner returned fire, hitting him in the head, police said.





The dead man was identified as Jason A. Cramer, 18, of Gibson Street. Cramer was arrested last month in the robbery of a Fillmore Avenue grocery store at gunpoint and was later released from jail.

On September 13:

PROVO — The wrong end of a gun barrel wasn't what the man who was attempting to rob the Provo Greyhound Freight and Travel depot was expecting Thursday afternoon.



But that's the position a 27-year-old Orem man was facing after demanding money from Scott Windhorst, the independent owner of the Greyhound station at 124 N. 300 West. A concealed weapons permit holder, Windhorst said he didn't hesitate in pulling out his pistol instead of forking out the company's cash.