He fired his gun at the attacker in self-defense, causing him to flee.
The man eventually left, but soon returned and attacked the other motorist with a metal pipe. 2, Daytona Beach, Florida: A man at a gas station made inappropriate sexual gestures toward another motorist’s wife, causing an argument. You may explore more by using The Heritage Foundation’s interactive Defensive Gun Use Database. The examples below represent only a small portion of the news stories on defensive gun use that we found in November. (Read accounts from 2019 and so far in 2020 here.) There’s good reason to believe that many of these defensive gun uses aren’t reported to police, much less make the local or national news.įor this reason, The Daily Signal each month publishes an article highlighting some of the previous month’s many news stories on defensive gun use that you may have missed-or that might not have made it to the national spotlight in the first place. One aspect of public health and safety that these gun control advocates regularly fail to acknowledge, however, is just how often law-abiding citizens use their firearms to successfully defend themselves and others.Īccording to a 2013 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost every major study on the issue has found that Americans use their firearms in self-defense between 500,000 and 3 million times a year. surgeon general-repeatedly has argued that gun-related violence should be reframed as a public health issue, with restrictive gun control measures imposed on law-abiding citizens to help combat it. Vivek Murthy-chosen by Biden to return to the post of U.S. Joe Biden has begun naming his picks for top political positions in a Biden administration, and it is already evident that many of them are not fans of Americans’ Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.įor example, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra-Biden’s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services-has spent the past three years defending that state’s absurdly restrictive gun control laws in federal court.
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