re: #44 Obdicut

So how few is too few for policy matters?

According to some anti gun advocates, the following things are so unlikely as to be considered practically impossible. The truth is not quite that helpful to that point of view. Sometimes luck is on the side of the good guy as in this first instance listed. Compiled from Google in less than 15 minutes. Every single one from a news source or a web cache. Not one NRA, CATO, or self defense advocacy site.

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – A retired firefighter took action when a pair of masked home invasion suspects forced his family to the floor in their southeast Harris County home.
Larry Covington said he was unloading groceries in his driveway on Glenhurst in South Park when the two armed robbers forced him inside.
khou.com
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SACRAMENTO, CA - A robbery suspect was shot and killed during a home invasion robbery in Sacramento’s Pocket neighborhood early Saturday morning.
webcitation.org
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GRAND PRAIRIE (cbsdfw.com) - A 21 year old man is in the hospital, and a homeowner’s bullet put him there.
Grand Prairie police say the homeowner called 9-1-1 around 2:30 on November 27, to report someone breaking into a window of his home, located in the 2000 block of Clark Trail.
The homeowner continued to talk to the 9-1-1 dispatcher, as he grabbed his handgun and argued with the suspect as he entered the home
dfw.cbslocal.com
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MICHIGAN CITY, Ind — A recent home invasion that led to two suspects getting shot is causing a buzz in Michigan City.
Today people are speaking out after a homeowner took matters into his own hands when coming face to face with a couple intruders.
According to police, a man was inside his home on Pontiac Drive Friday night when two people broke in.
abc57.com
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BRYAN COUNTY, Oklahoma -
A 12-year-old girl took matters into her own hands during a home invasion in southeast Oklahoma.
It happened on Wednesday when the girl was home alone. She told police a stranger rang the doorbell, then went around to the back door and kicked it in. She called her mom, Debra St. Clair, who told her to get the family gun, hide in a closet and call 911.
news9.com
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Off-Duty Officer Shoots Burglar To Death In Home Invasion
PHILADELPHIA -
As crime scene investigators dusted for fingerprints at his family’s Andorra home, veteran Warminster Police Officer Chris McCole stood outside talking to investigators and friends, just hours after he met an unwelcome burglar face-to-face in an upstairs bedroom and fatally shot the intruder.
“Thank God it was a police officer who could do something about it before his family was hurt,” said neighbor Sharon Fischer.
myfoxphilly.com
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