How many DUers have stopped a violent attack by firing a gun?

Looking for actual anecdotal evidence. How many DUers have actually brandished a gun and thwarted a crime?

If you have...post your story here. I'd like to hear about how you thwarted a crime by brandishing a gun. Be specific.

"I was threatened with a gun, and had I pulled mine, I would have started a gun battle. Instead, the situation resolved peaceably, charges were filed, the perp got some help, and now we are on speaking terms?"

Too specific? :crazy:

Do you think your gun helped the process?

No because it isn't an entirely true story. I did not have a gun. I would imagine one of us would be dead now had I produced one. Instead, the issue is over. He got chemical treatment, much needed, and got back on track. It would never happen again and wouldn't have without the chemicals, so why not be respectful to one another when we encounter each other in this small town?

He was a wise man.

tell us your story!

My brother and me in our youth were in the mountains panning for gold in the wilderness.
We were approached by some "characters" and he purposefully showed his gun, we both got bad vibes
but he was always a fearful angry type and a gun owner. I thought we could have handled the
situation without it and I personally have in many of my life's experiences
even being threaten by one.

No proof at that time that it worked or didn't work. It was an intimidating experience.
We have both been shot at, run down and attack in our youth for either being
Air force brats or rebels living on this planet.

Am I not my brother's keeper? I don't know, I have tried to take another path
to teach my brothers that the use of violence begets violence.
Anger begets anger etc. etc.

Do I turn the other cheek? Hell no, the mind is the most powerful weapon
that we have..

pointed at him while opening my door that for future reference I should never show a gun never mind have one pointed at someone unless I planned to use it, luckily for us both I didn't immediately fire nor did he return fire..

By the way, I had called them after hearing an intruder so expected them...still had the gun in my hand in my nervousness.

the door after ringing the bell, I could not see, no peep hole.

So how did you vote?

Did they catch the intruder?

as far as the intruder, he was caught a few weeks later at a local convience store, apparently he had been roaming the area for quite some time ummm showing himself through windows and such, I for one never saw anyone, I only heard someone trying to open my back sliding patio doors and immediately ran for the room where I obtained my gun and used the phone to notify the local law enforcement..


for the record, my sister wasn't wise by having her curtain open at night and found herself looking up from a chair where she had been talking on the phone and saw the guy, it took her years to be able to stay by herself after that..

Never knew if he was exactly threatening, seemed he was obviously attempting to garner some strange sexual attention from females he obviously knew were home alone.

Seriously, there are other options for protecting your home. What about those guys who sell Bowie knives, "combat folders" and swords on late night TV? I wonder how many crimes have been stopped by some tubby, basement-dwelling geek brandishing a sword while yelling "Eat cheap Pakistani steel, mo-fo!"?

Serial rapist picked the wrong window to crawl through in my town. Just before 5am, he stepped on the floor furnace in the hallway just outside my open bedroom door. It gave that hollow booming sound they make. Only light was a slim strip of moonlight coming through the doorway. I couldn't see him yet, but I could see the knife blade in the light. I sat up in bed, cocked my .357 and waited for him to break that beam of moonlight. It was so quiet the sound of the cylinder rolling spooked him and he fled out the window he'd come in.
I called the cops and met them on the porch.
My cousins called laughing at the dumbass rapist who brought a knife to a gunfight at my house. They'd heard it all on the scanner.

He got away that night, but he attacked an elderly lady up the block the next night and her son held him at gunpoint til the cops arrived.

I apologized to her for not getting him while he was in my house and saving her from having him jump her in her kitchen.

You want another one?

2 years ago (nearly) we packed up and moved into a verry rural area in the prairielands of nebraska. One night sometime in the first year we lost one of our maltese to coyotes. A few months later one night, late in the evening, we heard quite a racket out in the yard. Our male pomeranian (not a small pom mind you, but a 15 pounder, more of a small spitz than a pom) was getting into it with a coyote. I grabbed my beretta and went outside to break it up. Rounding the corner, the dog was holding his own with one coyote but 2 others were approaching him, and would have taken him for sure. They wouldn't pay much attention to brandishing and I had to fire a couple shots into the garden to get them to split. Brazen critters they are, least out here.

Really doesn't fit your qualifications but anyone passionate about poms will tell you, losing one to coyotes would be a crime.

Do tell.

If someone tried to rob or kill me, you can bet that a bullet would go through them in seconds.

Sorry for going OT, but are we so lazy we can't even revel in our ability to ward off attacks with muscle anymore? I mean I'm completely peace loving but existence includes a ying/yang relationship where the most peace loving hippie can become a destructive force if provoked, by why guns? We are so lazy we have to have a gun that destruct the whole block? That's lazy. Mechanical means of destruction are lazy. Why is strength of character suddenly useless? There is nothing cool about a gun. (in real life anyway, as opposed to video games)