Good Guy with a Gun #160: Van Nuys, CA (free post)

Four intruders. One homeowner, one gun, one shot: That's the Great Equalizer. | Original incident: April 9, 2024

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Sometimes we get very little information from the news articles about shootings — but that little bit can tell an important story.

A little after 9:30 PM on an April evening, a homeowner in Van Nuys, CA found four men inside his home.

He fired one shot at them, and they all ran away. When the police came, they found that the homeowner was uninjured.

We don’t know anything else. Was the homeowner alone? Did one of the intruders get hit? What were they after?

But one thing we know for sure is that guns are the Great Equalizer: Four against one!

Sources

This is a little frustrating: All of the sources, starting with MyNewsLA.com, point back to “a report from NBC 4”. Guess what I can’t find? Not on YouTube (though that’s diabolically hard to search well), nor with an nbclosangeles.com site search, nor with Google’s site search. So I’m really hoping that MyNewsLA got it right.

The other sources are pro-gun sites USACarry and Carry Hard, which includes it as part of a wrap-up piece.