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A homeowner in Los Angeles opened fire on numerous alleged intruders Monday around 3 p.m., critically wounding one. NBC Los Angeles noted, “Investigators believe three masked men tried to break into the home on Addison Street near Colfax Avenue, but they were stopped by the property owner.” FOX 11 reported there were “two to three” alleged intruders, who managed “broke into a home” and an altercation with the homeowner ensued. Thereafter the homeowner retrieve a handgun and shot one of alleged intruders, causing the other(s) to flee. Officers arrived to find the wounded 25-year-old suspect was “conscious and breathing,” and...

Rate of Male Firearms InjuryU.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- This writer has been interested in the percent of fatalities of people who are deliberately shot, for decades. It is not an easy number to quantify. The inverse of that number is the percent of those shot who survive.According to Battle Casualties and Medical Statistics: U.S. Army Experience in the Korean War, 13.5% of troops shot with bullets in Korea, died. Most of those were from rifle and machine gun fire, hit with full metal jacketed bullets.In 2014, this correspondent looked at numbers from Wisconsin (young, black, males) and Chicago. The Wisconsin numbers were...

The victim and his girlfriend told detectives they were walking west on 40th Street West when they noticed two men who appeared to be following them. They allegedly stopped at one point to allow the men to pass, but the suspects also stopped. “He said the suspect grabbed him by the throat and said, ‘This is how it’s gonna go down,’” sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said. The victim told deputies he was afraid for his life and shot the other man once or twice.

Chart from heyjackass.com, a site that tracks Chicago shootings Shooting a person is a deadly serious business.  There is always a chance that the person shot will die.  The latest statistics that we have from Wisconsin is that about one out of eight people shot die.  At the Chicago site shown above, the number for 2014 is about 1 out of 7  (2619 shot/375 killed)    That is from shootings that are treated in hospitals.  At least some people choose not to be treated.  We do not know what number that may be, but prison interviews have found that...

I want to tell you about Private Stephen Tschiderer, a 20-year-old Army medic of the 265th Brigade Combat team. While on patrol in Baghdad on July 2, insurgent snipers stalked the soldier by videotaping him from a nearby van. This footage would later prove Tschiderer's valor. Within seconds of walking away from his Hummer, he was shot in the chest above the heart. Tschiderer goes down — but immediately pops back up, fires back, and runs back behind the Hummer. From behind the Hummer, he signals the snipers' hiding spot to his unit. The 265th disabled the insurgents — including...