Good Guy with a Gun #80: Chicago, IL
Original incident: January 4, 2024. What do you do when the cops can't or won't protect your store?
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Vanessa Harris received an alert around 5 AM when her convenience store, V’s, got robbed for the second time in four days.
Having a license to carry concealed, she armed herself and arrived at the store to find the front-door glass shattered and three guys inside. One of them shot at her.
Harris returned fire and the robbers ran off.
“I gotta do what I gotta do,” she said. “I mean, unfortunately this ain’t what I want to do. I don’t want no death on my conscience, but they’re getting ridiculous.”
Keep the coffee and doughnuts coming, Vanessa!
Sources
The best source for this story is Eyewitness News 7. Their video interview with Vanessa showed the human side of this story and provided fodder for everyone else’s stories.
Fox News (paywalled), 92.7 & 98.5 radio (archived), and WFIN AM 1330 & 95.5 FM radio (archived) all also wrote up this story.
There was a lot of pickup of this story from the 2A community.
Colion Noir (who also spoke with Fox on that paywalled article, apparently)
Sean Holt at USACarry
John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) included it in a round-up of stories from January 2024.