Alphecca

In February of this year we had an incident in Baton Rouge where a CCW citizen assisted a police officer who was being beaten by a thug. I blogged it here: http://pawpawshouse.blogspot.com/2006/03/baton-rouge-ccw-shooting-update_01.html

I hope it helps.

Last April, we had a prisoner escape from a Federal Prison and the citizenry got up in arms. Literally. I blogged it here: http://pawpawshouse.blogspot.com/2006/04/manhunt-continues.html

I hope this helps.

Pawpaw

I have some from New York listed under "Armed Citizen in New York" off our main website WWW.NYSRPA.ORG

Here's a fellow who was charged, tried, and acquitted on self defense grounds. And here's one on two shop owners in NYC charged with gun law violation after self-defense.

Here's a guy who was convicted.

BTW, here's Don Kates' rebuttal of the article.

here is a link to the bernie goetz case (one link anyway) http://www.courttv.com/archive/verdicts/goetz.html

this goes back to NYC a bunch of years ago and it may be too ambiguous to be of use to you but he was successfully sued by the family of one of the muggers.

Clayton Cramer's civilian gun self-defense blog has many such stories.

Bernie Goetz saved my butt.

Not long after his confrontation, a week or three, but before he was identified as the victim/murderingNaziScumDestroyerOfInnocentInnerCitieGangBangers, I left a friends apartment in lower manhatten well after midnight. While her door was an outside door into a private alley, which also had it's own door, she would not go out late at night. That was a clue.

At the time I was 40 pounds lighter, a skinny, white dude with glasses, not unlike Goetz. Close enough for late at night, plus I knew how to act like I had a gun.

Walking down the block to my car I was approached by 3 guys that litterally asked me for a match. It was like a bad re-play of a bad Bronson movie.

It was winter and I had my key chain in my hand in the pocket of a heavy winter parka.

I rubbed the the keys together just enough to make a sound like the cocking of a revolver hammer, while I kept walking past and looking at them.

They heard the sound, looked at me, a skinny white dude with glasses, stopped, turned and walked away.

So when I tell folks I have used firearms one and a half times in self defense, that was the "half time".

Thanks, Bernie!

Jarnet case in England:
http://wrightwing.net/2006/01/21/18/28/230

Do not forget the Martin Case in England, mentioned in the above post, no link, sorry.

Rathburn case:
http://wrightwing.net/2005/11/17/21/33/134

Being a victim is so European... Self-defense only applies if you are invading Poland/France I suppose.

I have been tracking self-defense firearms uses for about 6 years, both online and in the local newspaper (Seattle Post Intelligencer) under the heading "Value of Individual Ownership" 'Self-Defense stories'. I estimate 200-500 or more. Many reports from "Keep and Bear Arms" website, Clayton Cramer's blog, and John R. Lott Jr.'s blog.
Would you like a list of the URLs which may no longer be online, or prints of the stories. I copied and pasted about half of them into a word file, always referencing the source document, in order to have text only.

http://wheelgun.blogspot.com/2006/06/da-hoping-to-prosecute-self-defense.html possible prosecution - going to grand jury.

http://wheelgun.blogspot.com/2006/06/so-why-was-this-even-taken-to-trial.html Obviously self-defense, should never have gone to trial.

http://wheelgun.blogspot.com/2006/04/prosecuting-self-defense.html

http://wheelgun.blogspot.com/2006/03/well-hawaii-does-recognize-self.html
arrested for no good reason

http://wheelgun.blogspot.com/2006/04/oklahoma-law-enforcement-upset-about.html
Similar topic - they want to be able to arrest people without probably cause.

http://wheelgun.blogspot.com/2006/01/self-defense-still-legal-in-alaska.html
prosecuter said the injuries were not bad enough to justify self-defense (wait to be stabbed...) 2hrs for not-guilty

http://wheelgun.blogspot.com/2006/01/st-louis-police-hoping-to-prosecute.html

http://wheelgun.blogspot.com/2005/10/another-da-detemined-to-prosecute-self.html

here is one from Omaha
http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/2034532.html

Here's something that happened to me in the 1980s which I recalled recently:

http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/003753.html

Back in the 1980s, a psychotic, obviously intoxicated man with bloodshot eyes entered my yard in Berkeley, where there was a wooden door removed from its hinges, waiting to be refinished. The man picked up the door and started throwing it around repeatedly in a manner I can fairly describe as irritating, offensive, and dangerous. (Anyone in the yard could have been severely injured.) When we told him that this was private property and he had to get out, we were completely ignored, as he was having too much fun with his tantrum. At that point, we decided that brandishing a gun might be the best way to change his mind. I will never forget how quickly this "crazy man" showed clear evidence of sanity as soon as he heard the semiautomatic pistol slide being ratcheted back. Jolted into reality (I guess that's the right word for self preservation), he ran from the yard. The police were never called, as we feared that we might be considered the criminals.

Ever since then, I have tended to believe that many of these so-called "mentally ill" and "homeless" people have a lot more common sense than the Harvard experts would have us believe.

Here's a stroy from Mondays paper in orlando...
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-mguns0706aug07,0,2573293.story
Florida's new law on self-defense serves as model
In the past year, 15 states have enacted laws that expand the right of self-defense, allowing crime victims to use deadly force in situations that might formerly have subjected them to prosecution for murder.
Supporters call them "stand your ground" laws. Opponents call them "shoot first" laws.
Thanks to this sort of law, a prostitute in Port Richey who killed her 72-year-old client with his own gun rather than flee was not charged last month. Similarly, the police in Clearwater did not arrest a man who shot a neighbor in early June after a shouting match over putting out garbage, though the authorities say they are still reviewing the evidence.......................................