{"id":83157,"date":"2022-07-07T15:10:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=83157"},"modified":"2022-07-07T15:10:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:10:55","slug":"83157","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=83157","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Arizona, Texas gun owners demonstrate the importance of armed self-defense<\/a><\/p>\n

The national media can\u2019t get enough of stories involving the criminal misuse of firearms, but they often fall strangely silent when it comes to armed citizens defending themselves or others. That appears to be the case with two recent incidents that unfolded in Harris County, Texas and Safford, Arizona this week. I\u2019ve seen no mention of either story in any major national news outlet, despite the fact that both offer a pretty compelling narrative.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with the defensive gun use in Harris County, where a woman is alive and well today thanks to the fact that her neighbor was able to protect her when her own son\u00a0tried to kill her<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A mother was celebrating Independence Day at the Highland Cross Apartments when her son returned home, supposedly acting erratic and wielding a suspected AK-47.<\/p>\n

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez estimated more than 20 rounds were fired in an apartment with his mother inside. Those rounds hit at least two nearby apartments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mother emerged from the house shortly thereafter. She was bleeding from the face. The male tracked his mother down outside here and was shooting her on her lower extremities when a neighbor arrived with his firearms and shot and killed the son,\u201d said Sgt. Dennis Wolfford with the HCSO Homicide Unit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The 58-year old woman is expected to survive her injuries, which almost certainly would not have been the case if good guy with a gun hadn\u2019t shown up\u00a0when he did<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At some point, the mother managed to get out of the apartment. That\u2019s when another neighbor saw what was happening and grabbed his gun to try and help her.<\/p>\n

Investigators said gunfire may have been exchanged between the son and the neighbor, but no one was hit.<\/p>\n

The mother was trying to hide behind a tree, but the son found her and stood over her, firing several shots, deputies said.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when the neighbor shot and killed the son, according to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way the suspect was just firing indiscriminately, just point-blank shot the mother apparently as he stood over her, was a dangerous individual that likely could have continued shooting. He was already shooting. He damaged not only his apartment, but the neighbors,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cThe neighbors are shaken up because a 16-year-old daughter was sitting at the table where the shots rang out into the main living area. Another apartment was also shot up. Thankfully, that owner, we\u2019re told, was away from the apartment at the time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, in Safford, Arizona early Wednesday morning a couple were confronted in their home by a man with a knife. Unlike many home invasions and burglaries, the victims in this case recognized the intruder as\u00a0their neighbor<\/a>. Little did they know that by the time Miguel Garcia broke into their home he had already allegedly murdered someone in his own residence.<\/p>\n

As the two homeowners fled into a bedroom, then later a bathroom, Garcia continued to approach saying that \u201cthey would have to kill him,\u201d officers said.<\/p>\n

One of the victims was able to retrieve a pistol and shot Garcia, killing him.<\/p>\n

While trying to reach out to a next of kin to inform them of Garcia\u2019s death, officers were unable to get a response and entered Garcia\u2019s home. There, they found another victim dead in one of the home\u2019s bedrooms.<\/p>\n

Police did not share the victim\u2019s identity or cause of death beyond being connected to Garcia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In both of these cases simply calling 911 and waiting for police to respond likely would have resulted in officers arriving to the scene of a murder, rather than a clearly justifiable homicide. The ability of these armed citizens to access a firearm in defense of another or themselves was the key component in preventing the loss of life, which I suspect is the real reason why neither of these stories have received any real national attention by the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arizona, Texas gun owners demonstrate the importance of armed self-defense The national media can\u2019t get enough of stories involving the criminal misuse of firearms, but they often fall strangely silent when it comes to armed citizens defending themselves or others. That appears to be the case with two recent incidents that unfolded in Harris County, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-self-defense","category-slugs-for-thugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83158,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83157\/revisions\/83158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}