Guns Save Lives – Real Stories of Gun Owners Protecting Themselves and Others

I’ve decided to create a new category of blog post here at Guns & Ammo Info: Guns Save Lives. I’ve decided that because the mainstream media would prefer to control the narrative on gun rights focused on their mantra of “guns are evil”, I would focus on telling the stories that they won’t. Everyday in America guns save lives, they save families, they stop crimes and help bring criminals to justice. Well, the guns themselves don’t, but law-abiding gun owners use their Second Amendment rights to stop evil-doers. But you won’t read those stories on CNN, MSNBC or anywhere else. They’d rather you not know about them.

By setting up some handy news alerts, I can get daily feeds of the positive gun stories that you might not see anywhere else. And, it will be my effort to post one such story here as often as possible, to help dispel the myths that the liberal media want us to believe. I think all of us who want to protect our rights are each trying to do his or her part in this battle. I guess this is one of the ways I’ll pitch in. So, check back often to read more stories of how people like you and me are able to use our guns to save lives. Here’s the first:

Gas station owner thwarts robbery

Munising, MI – Two individuals who attempted to rob the Oasis Gas Station in Shingleton early Sunday morning are behind bars.

Troopers from the Michigan State Police Munising Detachment responded to the Oasis Gas Station in Shingleton for a breaking and entering in progress at 4:10 a.m. on Sunday.

Two suspects wearing ski masks forced entry into the gas station and proceeded to the cash register.

Unknown to the burglars, the gas station owner, Shawn Schank, was in the building at the time of the attempted burglary.

Schank, a veteran of the Iraq war, found the masked suspects behind the cashier’s counter at his register.

He ran toward the suspects and kicked one of them, causing him to fall to the floor. Schank then retrieved an AR-15 assault rifle from his office and ordered the masked men to leave his business, police said.

During the altercation, one of the suspects peeled his mask off and pleaded with Schank not shoot him.

The suspects then fled on foot away from the Oasis Gas Station and Schank called 911 to report the incident.

When one of the suspects removed his mask and exposed his face, Schank recognized the burglar and was able to provide the suspect’s identity to police.

Troopers located and apprehended the identified suspect. Investigative efforts provided the ability to identify the second suspect, who was also located and apprehended.

A 17-year-old Shingleton resident and an 18-year-old Munising resident were both arrested for breaking and entering and lodged at the Alger County Jail.

Both arrested suspects remain lodged pending arraignments scheduled in the Alger County District Court on Tuesday.

Source: The Daily News

Guns Save Lives

This article is one in a series outlining the frequency in which firearms are used to save lives and protect the innocent. We at Guns and Ammo Info believe in our Second Amendment rights and will continue to fight to protect that right. If you agree, do your part by telling your representatives and share your voice.

May 6, 2013S. Lawrence

Comments: 8

Ron
8 months ago
Always good to have the date of an article
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Rob Edward
7 years ago
I’d point out that the article refers to the owner using an “AR-15 assault rifle” which is a direct quote from the source. This is almost certainly another example of either bias or confusion of the news source over what an assault rifle actually is.
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Dusty
8 years ago
Dusty from Canada,

Well, again, our laws up here are different but we still like our guns and to talk about them. As well, like this site and it’s magazine counterpart we like to make an arguement primarily based on it’s own merits rather than emotional or character assination techniques. I shall try to remain humble as I write this.

I agree that it is good to have such a series in print or electronic form. I wish that all the stories were not posted in the same year. I am also surprised by the lack of comments the topic drew. Could this possiblly be a hint that perhaps the issue of gun ownership and thier use for supposedly “GOOD” purposes is starting to lose some support?

I completely agree and understand the arguement that “A GUN” is an inanimate object. It is not alive, it does not think, it has no moral leanings one way or another. It is simply a tool as so many before me have pointed out.
The issue is how is the gun used when placed in the hands of a live, thinking, moral leaning individual? Shall he use it for peaceful and productive and positive / correct moral reasons? Or, the opposite.

One useful objective, on its merits tool, that we may use to asses the pertinant facts is math and statistics.

Now, unless you believe that someone down the line is padding and / or skewing or misunderstanding the numbers and hence taking action in inappropriate ways
as a result of that misunderstanding, then the numbers don’t lie and tell a pretty convincing story even to me, meaning that I am a gun owner / advocate as well but even I must keep an open mind and take in all the factors in an issue and weight them.
I too believe that any Government could be acting neferiously by slowly yet insidiously taking away any rights, not just to bear arms.
Yet, I cannot believe that every single individual in Government at the national level is “bought off” or “crooked”. I believe that some of them want to be there to help the citizens of thier country in every and any way they can.
Under that assumption and using math and statistics as an aid to help him make an informed decision. Things don’t look very good for those argueing the right for side arms / hand guns in the general population.

I have been keeping up with various groups published stats. regarding “gun violence in America and thier associated costs to the public and Government”.

I understand and agree that the arguement of possesion for purposes of self-defence seems so clear, so right, so logical and comforting. Sadly despite your encouraging articles on real life examples of how “Guns save lives”. The math is clearly not in your favour. In fact it is absolutely no where even close to supporting that arguement. Of course the numbers vary a little from paper to paper but they are all pretty close to one another. The stats. were deeply disheartining. In your country; Every time one (1) gun is used for good (in the civilian population), twenty two (22) are used with bad / negative intensions or results.
Important to note is the cost to indiviuals, communities, municipalities (counties), states and the Federal Government that result from those 22 gun related incidents. Which, by the way, are quite significant! Also, part of the math our Government did in deciding the rules on hand guns.

So, we don’t have anything like your second ammendmant to complicate things all we had to do was look at the math and the conclusion to put hand guns into a special catagory of thier own, with many hurdles to overcome to get one and maintain the right to keep it was pretty darned easy for us!

No offence Brothers!
Health and wisdom be with you.
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- Chris
  8 years ago
  Hello,
  
  Part of what your argument does not take into consideration is that criminals don’t obey laws. So, the criminals will always have guns. At least in the USA where there are so many guns to begin with. Further, if we disarm law-abiding citizens, the criminals have an easier time committing crimes, both violent and non-violent. Also, typically, even if gun violence goes down when citizens are disarmed, overall violence does not, and sometimes even goes up. You need to break up these statistics by who is committing the crimes, and also compare to one crime replaced with another type of crime or method of violence. Just saying “gun violence went down” (even assuming this is true in any given situation) is not the whole answer.
  
  One big issue in the US is that we don’t actually prosecute the gun laws we already have. I won’t go into detail, but the info is out there. We let people using guns in crimes off lightly (not at all to the extent the law provides). There isn’t enough deterrent to not use a gun to commit a crime, and certainly repeated offenders are not punished enough.
  
  Further, some of the ridiculous laws that are sought by some in this country would do no good. Example, the attempt to ban AR-15s and similar rifles. The arguments for this type of ban are completely emotional and not at all based in facts. Hardly any crime is committed with rifles of any type, and AR-15s and similar are not only not “assault rifles” or “weapons of war”, but are far less powerful than many other available rifles. But, they look scary to the uninformed, and are sometimes used in the occasional high-profile crime where a different type of gun could have just as easily or even more effectively been used. Sometimes, with some of these mass or multiple murders, an AR-15 or “assault-style rifle” isn’t even used, but they are blamed anyway, before the facts are even known. Sometimes even after the facts are known! The stigma amongst those not informed about such weapons is so strong, they sometimes blame them no matter what. There are many other examples of proposed (or enacted) gun laws that are “feel good” but certainly do nothing to reduce gun violence, and some may actually exacerbate it in the direction of getting the victim killed instead of the perpetrator of the crime.
  
  Guns are not the problem. The moral decay of our society and ongoing destructive political policies (otherwise known as unintended consequences of irrational regulation) are the problems that have led us to where we’re at now. Unfortunately, these situations are likely to continue to get worse, making law-abiding citizens responsibly armed more important than ever.
  
  As much as I’m generally against government regulation one thing I would not be against is having more required firearms safety training and actual range time be required for a concealed carry license. Safety and knowing your weapon are critical to being responsibly armed. I would not be for the same simply for firearm ownership (since I’m against registration, this would be impossible to enforce), but for carrying it in public, I think it could help.
  
  Regards.
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  - Chris
    8 years ago
    By the way, the above post was to Dusty from Canada, not a reply to the article itself.
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Sandria Bingham
9 years ago
It’s refreshing to hear the other side of the story. Thank you.
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Joshua
10 years ago
There was a similar incident in a town close to where I live that was never mentioned even I the local news which is total b.s. thanks for doing your part in trying to save our right to protect ourselves
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GB
11 years ago
Thanks for doing this. It’s great to see the good gun stories that are out there instead of all hte negative. Guns are tools, nothing more. To demonize an object for political reasons is both wrong and stupid.
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