The Armed Citizen® September 27, 2024

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posted on September 27, 2024
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A man in Las Vegas, Nev., showed up intoxicated to his house-remodeling job on August 1 and was immediately fired. The ex-employee then got into an SUV and attempted to run over his former boss, chasing him up and down the street and through yards until he finally struck him, catapulting him into a wall. At least one neighbor in the area was also injured as he tried to avoid the SUV. A different neighbor witnessing the incident told her adult grandson to retrieve her shotgun. He did, and then he fired at least three shots into the window of the moving SUV as it raced directly toward him, successfully subduing the driver and stopping the attack. Witnesses said they saw injuries to the suspect’s face, and he died from his injuries. The incident was all largely captured on video, and the armed citizen who stopped the attack was only briefly detained. (8newsnow.com, Las Vegas, Nev., 8/2/24)


A 67-year-old man in Orion Township, Mich., reportedly used an ax to break into a home where his ex-girlfriend had taken refuge after a breakup on July 17. The woman and her stepson retreated to an upstairs bedroom; he braced the door while she further retreated into an attached bathroom. However, the man pursued them upstairs and fired a shot through the bedroom door, miraculously missing the stepson. He then entered, pointed his gun at the stepson and said, “I’m here for her.” When he turned toward the bathroom where the woman had retreated, however, the stepson fired one round from his own gun and killed the assailant. (fox2detroit.com, Detroit, Mich., 7/17/24)

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