America the shoot-iful

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Cheryl Gibson had at one point filed a protective order against her abusive husband. When he started beating her in her Perdido, Ala., home one evening, she retrieved a small-caliber handgun and fired, wounding him. A grand jury determine whether charges should be filed, but, noted Baldwin County District Attorney David Whetstone, "It is unusual when you have an intentional shooting not to have an arrest unless the officer has strong evidence that it was self-defense."
 
A homeowner in Shelby, Ala., found four men breaking into his home, so he retrieved a gun, fired and wounded one man. The four burglars fled, and the wounded suspect was later taken to a hospital, where he was taken into custody. It was later learned the man was one of four inmates who had escaped from a Georgia prison.
 
When a 61-year-old woman from Sylvan Springs, Ala., noticed a car following her as she neared home, she called her husband on her cell phone. When she arrived at the house, she found herself confronted in the driveway by an armed robber. The robber's demand for her purse was answered by a shot from her husband, who sent the thief fleeing.
 
A robber armed with a fake gun found out he picked the wrong victim in a Birmingham, Ala., hotel. Instead of complying with the thief's demands, the would-be victim drew a real gun. The robber fled, but was soon captured by police.
 
Ronnie Breland and his son, Joshua, drove out to some property the family owned after a neighbor warned them that trespassers had been seen in the area. Breland drove a pickup truck, and his son rode beside him, armed with a 9 mm pistol. Breland discovered two men standing by a truck hidden in some trees. As the Brelands approached the trespassers, one man crawled deeper into the woods as the other raised his arm, holding a gun in his hand. Joshua Breland raised his gun in response. When his father yelled to the interloper, "Hit the ground or you're dead," the younger Breland said the man hit the dirt immediately, and the other man crawled back out of the woods on his belly. "I held them at gunpoint while my dad duct-taped their hands and feet," Joshua said. "Duct tape was all we had." Mobile County Sheriff's Department deputies picked up the two men, charging them with manufacturing methamphetamine and second-degree criminal trespass.
 
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