Ex-Miss America fights back …

Here’s a recent, higher-profile case that perhaps even Peter won’t be able to miss …

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WAYNESBURG, Ky. — Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle’s tires and stop an intruder.

Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a storage building where thieves had previously made off with old farm equipment.

She had to balance on her walker as she pulled out a snub-nosed .38-caliber handgun.

Ramey then flagged down a passing motorist, who called 911 while she held the suspects at gunpoint for police to arrive.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,267540,00.html

http://forums.wausaudailyherald.com/viewtopic.php?p=9779&highlight=#9779

Defensive gun use …

Peter writes:
“Never – not once – did I read a police report about someone defending himself with a gun. Not that I can recall. I’ll grant that one or two might have escaped my memory over those years; I am getting older and I do lose some things these days. But even if I am forgetting one or two, they represent fraction of the total number of incidents in which I can document a gun being used with tragic results.”

As you say.

The following link, while to an advocacy site, is one which includes a database of actual NEWS stories collected nationwide of incidents involving the defensive use of a firearm..