Louisiana- (Ammoland.com)- The Self Defense Gun Stories Podcast brings you real news of armed civilians each week. People just like you protected themselves and the people they love. We report and analyze each incident with a firearms instructor. Episode 51 features firearms instructor Ben Branam. Were these gun owners lucky, or were they trained and well prepared? How does your training compare to theirs? Listen and find out. (16 minutes)
All three victims survived lethal attacks because they had a gun.
Self Defense Gun Stories
First story- Are you armed at work late at night? You’re a small Laotian woman. You manage a laundromat about 15 miles west of Philadelphia. It is early in the morning and you are at work. A man walks into your laundromat with his gun drawn. You’ve been robbed at gunpoint before. This robber pushes you back toward the back and demands money. You don’t have any. Then the robber tells you to strip off your clothes. He pushes you into a back room. This time you fight.
Second Story- Are you armed at home? You and your husband are both at home this morning. You live in a well to do rural neighborhood about 16 miles east of Washington, DC. You turn around and a stranger is standing inside your home. You ask him who he is, and then tell him to leave. He doesn’t. You yell, and then your husband comes toward the front of the house. He pushed the intruder towards the front door. The intruder pushes back. They fight.
Third story- Are you armed when you make deliveries late at night? You have kids at home, and you’re trying to make ends meet. You’re delivering pizza at 7 at night. It is dark at that hour given the time of year. You get out of your car and three strangers step from the shadows around the building in front of you. One of them already has a gun pointed at you. They demand your money and the pizza. You drop the pizza and run. You’re shot in the arm and the bullet then hits your hip and the gun in its holster. You duck behind your car.
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