Just in case you didn't know ... research by criminologist Gary
Kleck found as many as 2.5 million defensive or protective uses of guns each year in
the U.S. “[T]he best available evidence indicates that guns were used
about three to five times as often for defensive purposes as for
criminal purposes,” Kleck concluded. His research also indicates that most of those incidents end without a single shot being fired. In fact, in only 1% of instances are criminals wounded, and in only 0.1% are criminals killed.
Well ... we can file this one under the 0.1% column:
A veteran cab driver shot and killed a 20-year-old man who pointed a shotgun at him during an early morning robbery Wednesday, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police.
The cab driver was lucky to be armed. His attacker had been previously convicted on numerous occasions. It's safe to say that he won't be again.
Check out the full story in the Charlotte Observer.
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