Good Guy with a Gun: Los Angeles
Original incident: November 4, 2023. Surveillance video and victim interview included.
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You need to check out the surveillance video in this ABC7 news report.
It was around 7:30 PM on a Saturday evening in Los Angeles. A man was walking up to his front door, where his wife, his five-month-old baby, and a nanny were waiting inside. He didn’t know that two masked men were watching him. Surveillance video shows what happened next.
One of the masked men ran up to the homeowner as he was getting his keys, jabbing a gun in his back.
The homeowner spun, spilling tea everywhere, and the intruder backed off just enough for the man to pull his own gun and start firing.
The bad guys ran away. The Good Guy went inside, unharmed, and called the police.
You can hear from him directly at the video at the link.
UPDATE: Brian Armstrong has some great discussion at USACarry about this situation and the legal issues surrounding it.
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