{"id":1591257,"date":"2022-08-05T15:47:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591257"},"modified":"2022-08-05T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:47:09","slug":"4-times-an-armed-civilian-used-a-firearm-in-self-defense-last-month-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-times-an-armed-civilian-used-a-firearm-in-self-defense-last-month-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Times An Armed Civilian Used A Firearm In Self Defense \u2013 Last Month Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F4-times-an-armed-civilian-used-a-firearm-in-self-defense-last-month-alone%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591257&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>All too often, major media outlets spend hours of airtime and tens of thousands of words covering the instances where firearms are used by criminals to hurt people. For some reason, those same outlets rarely address how often peaceful individuals use firearms in order to protect themselves, their loved ones, and their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, The Daily Wire covered the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/armed-peaceful-citizens-can-stop-mass-shootings-one-just-did-in-indiana\">Elisjsha Dicken<\/a>, who stopped a would-be mass shooter in his tracks, and last month, we covered several other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/5-times-a-lawfully-armed-citizen-stopped-a-would-be-mass-shooter-in-his-tracks\">armed individuals<\/a> who stopped mass shootings. However, there are hundreds of thousands \u2014 possibly millions \u2014 of defensive gun uses in the United States that don\u2019t receive even that level of coverage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nap.nationalacademies.org\/read\/18319\/chapter\/3#15\">In a 2013 study<\/a>, the National Academies Press reported that defensive gun uses number between 500,000 and 3 million\u00a0per year. With all of those times a firearm was used to preserve and protect life kept in mind, here are four key stories from just last month:<\/p>\n<p>80-Year-Old Store Owner Shoots Armed Robber<\/p>\n<p>On July 31, 80-year-old Craig Cope, who owns a convenience store in Norco, California, saw an armed assailant exit a vehicle on the store\u2019s surveillance cameras just before 3:00 AM. Cope immediately retrieved the shotgun he kept behind the counter and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/caught-on-camera-80-year-old-norco-store-owner-shoots-attempted-robbery-suspect\/\">shot the would-be robber<\/a> in the arm as he entered the store, before the robber was able to cause any harm or steal any property.<\/p>\n<p>Cope specifically installed his new surveillance system less than a year ago because of the uptick in store robberies in the area, and it clearly paid off. One of the store employees told the local CBS station: \u201cI\u2019m proud to call him my boss. He makes us feel better about being here, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pregnant Woman Saves Herself And Unborn Child By Shooting Attacker<\/p>\n<p>A 34-year-old pregnant woman in Ohio likely saved her life, and the life of her unborn child, on July 29 during a domestic violence incident. According to 911 calls, shortly before 11:00 AM, the expectant mother was being choked by a male attacker when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cantonrep.com\/story\/news\/2022\/07\/29\/man-shot-during-domestic-dispute-lake-township-uniontown-police\/10182184002\/\">she grabbed a nearby gun and shot her attacker<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man had, just the month prior, pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge for violating an order from police to cease all communication with the same woman. He received a 30-day sentence, but he only spent one day in jail, with the other 29 days suspended. Police have a warrant for the man\u2019s arrest as soon as he is discharged from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Armed Bystander Saves Store Clerk Being Held At Knife-Point<\/p>\n<p>A female store clerk in St. Charles, Missouri may be alive today because a 26-year-old man from St. Louis happened to stop into a QuikTrip to use the bathroom shortly after 3:00 AM. On July 16, as the man was leaving the store, he saw another man abruptly pull up in an SUV, run into the store with a backpack, and drag the female clerk to the front of the store screaming. The attacker held a knife to the woman\u2019s throat.<\/p>\n<p>The young man, who had just left the store, grabbed a handgun from his vehicle and ran back into the store to confront the assailant. When the assailant approached the armed civilian with his backpack saying, \u201cI have something for you,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/man-shoots-kills-robbery-suspect-during-violent-crime-spree-in-st-charles\/article_31011371-4d41-5b63-815b-027d9fe163b2.html\">the civilian opened fire, killing the assailant<\/a>. It turns out the assailant was on a violent crime spree, having robbed two other stores that night and severely injuring a clerk at one of those stores.<\/p>\n<p>Concealed Carry License Holder In Chicago Defends Himself And His 11-Year-Old Daughter<\/p>\n<p>The last thing most people expect when sitting in a McDonald\u2019s parking lot while having dinner on a Tuesday night is needing to defend yourself and your daughter from an armed attacker. But that\u2019s exactly what happened at a McDonald\u2019s in Chicago on July 14. Around 5:00 PM, a masked 19-year-old approached a man\u2019s car, began yelling, and then drew a gun and fired several shots into the car.<\/p>\n<p>However, the would-be victim was armed, and he immediately drew his own handgun and <a href=\"https:\/\/cwbchicago.com\/2022\/07\/27-concealed-carry-holder-shot-man-who-opened-fire-on-his-car-at-mcdonalds.html\">returned fire<\/a>, probably saving not only his life, but the life of his 11-year-old daughter who was sitting in the back seat. While police found bullet holes in the car\u2019s passenger door, hood, and tire, miraculously, neither the man nor his daughter were harmed. The attacker, who had pending charges for carjacking, burglary, and aggravated battery, was found in a nearby parking garage with gunshot wounds to his hand, arm, and foot and was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>These are just a few of the many defensive gun uses that occurred in July alone. This doesn\u2019t include the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/clearwater-woman-fatally-shoots-man-who-broke-into-her-bedroom-police-say\">Clearwater, Florida woman who fatally shot a man attacking her in her bedroom in June<\/a>; the <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/suspected-stalker-shot-dead-after-kicking-in-the-door-of-a-womans-apartment-police-say-houston-texas-investigation-handgun-investigators-detectives-evidence-witnesses\">Webster, Texas woman who shot her stalker after he kicked in her front door in May<\/a>; or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/man-shoots-kills-2-teens-who-tried-to-rob-him-officials-say\/3224640\/\">Norristown, Pennsylvania man who shot two teens that tried to<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All too often, major media outlets spend hours of airtime and tens of thousands of words covering the instances where firearms are used by criminals to hurt people. For some reason, those same outlets rarely address how often peaceful individuals use firearms in order to protect themselves, their loved ones, and their communities. Last week, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1433916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1433916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}