The Luckiest Criminal In The World

By Bob Owens

The overwhelming majority of defensive gun uses we discuss here at Bearing Arms are those that have made the news. Typically, these incidents have made the news because the situation escalated to the point lives where at risk and the lawful gun owner had to discharge his or her firearm in order to stop a violent crime.

But there’s both much, much more and much, much less to the reality of armed self-defense in the United States.

The vast majority of defensive gun uses don’t make the news, because the vast majority of the time, the mere presence or display, or even the hint of a firearm caused a criminal to flee.

Think about it: probably every one of us has a friend (or two, or three, or more) who has had to reach for a firearm in self defense at some point. Some have even pulled them. Very few of us have friends who have had to actually to fire their guns.

Today we’re hearing the story of an unknown predator who wisely decided to back off when the man he was targeting for robbery struck a defensive posture.

The bad guy could have had no idea that his target had spent five days …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms