Personal Security - Self Defense With a Gun

There have been a couple of news reports of people defending themselves against the bad guys with their guns! Personal protection and home security is very important! The following articles are examples of defending yourself and your home. Please keep in mind that with proper training and practice, you will become more confident with your weapon and will less likely have an accident. When the time comes to use it, you will be more likely to make a valid decision – saving and protecting yourself and or your family!

Police: Home intruder shot, killed by Midtown resident
Anchorage Daily News/adn.com, Published: August 30th, 2010

Anchorage police have identified the man who was shot and killed early Sunday during a failed home-invasion robbery attempt. Robert Kost, 23, of Anchorage died of his wounds after being shot by a tenant of a Midtown triplex in the 800 block of West 23rd Avenue , said police Lt. Dave Parker. Police believe two or more others were with Kost during the robbery attempt just after midnight Sunday, and homicide detectives are searching for them. The others ran away after the shooting, Parker said.

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69-year-old Ala. woman shoots home intruder, Decatur, Ala.

A pistol-packing 69-year-old woman in northern Alabama believes intruders will think twice before messing with her again.

Police say Ethel Jones shot an 18-year-old man in the stomach when she found him inside her bedroom at her home in Decatur .

Jones says she sleeps with her gun under a pillow next to her. She says she grabbed it after hearing a door rattle shortly before 3 a.m. Monday.

Police say the suspect removed a window air conditioner to get inside the home. He is in the hospital and faces a charge of second-degree burglary.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50195350-76/ala-decatur-woman-decaturdaily.html.csp

Police say man fatally shot alleged mugger in South Dallas
The Dallas Morning News, Monday, August 30, 2010,By Avi Selk

A Sachse man shot his alleged mugger to death in South Dallas early Friday morning, according to police records.

Nicholas Lewis, 22, who lived on Cleveland Street , died in the hospital a few hours after he allegedly held up Jeffrey Hall, 43, in the 1800 block of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Lewis pointed a semiautomatic pistol at Hall and demanded his wallet, according to a police report. Hall told police he handed his wallet to Lewis, who started to ride away on a bicycle.

But Lewis then turned, according to police, and fired at Hall – missing him and striking his pickup.

Hall then pulled out his licensed pistol and shot Lewis multiple times, according to police. Hall shot Lewis in the torso, the buttocks and the head, according to Lewis' sister, who says she watched him die at Baylor Medical Center at Dallas a few hours later.

Lt. David Pughes of the Dallas Police Department said police so far had no reason to doubt Hall's claim that he shot Lewis in self-defense. But it would be up to a grand jury to decide whether to file any charges, Pughes said. Reached at home, Hall declined to comment.

Latasha Lewis said that her brother "had his shortcomings," but that she could not believe he fired at Hall.

"I'm not justifying him robbing," she said. "He was wrong if that's what he did. But if he drove off on his bicycle, the best thing you could have done was to call the police."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-shooting_30met.ART.State.Edition2.3583e60.html