MI: Fatal shooting ruled self defense: "A fatal shooting in Kalamazoo has been ruled self defense. Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Fink has ruled that the March 6th shooting death of Bernell Gordon was self defense. The alleged shooter, Frank Pierce, will face two felony firearms charges, but will not be charged in Gordon's death. Authorities say Pierce did shoot and kill the 20-year-old Gordon, but Gordon was assaulting Pierce and trying to rob him at the time of the shooting. Pierce will be charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. He could face up to five years in prison."


CA: Homeowner punches, tackles armed robbery suspect: "A Pinole homeowner, seizing on a suspected robber's moment of distraction, disarmed him, chased him and struggled with him as officers arrived early Monday. The incident occurred at a house on Hazel Street near Pinon Avenue moments after midnight Monday. A tenant who rents the upstairs of the house called police to report hearing suspicious noises downstairs. When officers arrived, they heard arguing in the home's yard. A woman — one of the three victims — said one intruder had held a shotgun on them while the second intruder searched the home. The shotgun was loaded. She told police that the suspects had ordered the victims to lie face down in the house. Later, she said, the suspects ordered them outside where one of the intruders watched over them with a shotgun. Then the robbery went awry. "The suspect was distracted for a moment, and lowered his shotgun," Rogers said. "I believe (the homeowner) punched him. He (the suspect) dropped the shotgun and took off running, and the homeowner chased him and tackled him. They were fighting when police arrived." The other suspect was still in the house when officers arrived. "We caught him ... red-handed, with a box full of property and a mask over his face," Rogers said. Police arrested the pair, whom they identified as Steve Bearce, 30, and Blake Anderson, 31, both of Vallejo, on suspicion of robbery, possession of a firearm and kidnapping. The two were booked into Contra Costa County jail. No charges had been filed Monday afternoon, Rogers said."


KS: Robbery Suspect Dies from Gunshot: "A robbery suspect has died, and two others have been arrested. The incident happened late Friday night, when three suspects tried to commit a robbery in the 2000 block of W. 2nd Street. The intended victims, a man and a woman, locked themselves inside their car. One of the supsects began banging on the car window with a long-barrelled gun; he had his finger on the trigger, the gun went off, and the bullet accidentally hit the gunman in the head. The other two suspects put the wounded man in the back of a station wagon, then led police on a chase through the streets of north-central Wichita, with speeds at times reaching 70 miles per hour on 13th Street north of downtown. Police arrested two suspects; the man who accidentally shot himself, 25-year-old Paul Broyer, died from his injuries. All three robbery suspects were out of jail on parole."


Gun control restricts those least likely to commit violent crimes: "The March 21 murder of four Oakland police officers by Lovelle Mixon, a convicted felon wanted for a recent parole violation, epitomizes the futility of “gun control,” or the banning and restricting of gun ownership for law-abiding adults. Using the officers’ tragic deaths to further an unrelated agenda — stripping away the Second Amendment rights of honorable citizens — is both harmful and distracting. Mixon was not an anomaly. Felons commit over 90 percent of murders, with the remainder carried out primarily by juveniles and the mentally unbalanced. The United States already has laws forbidding all three groups from owning guns, which, by definition, are ineffective against the lawless. “Gun control,” therefore, only “controls” those who have done nothing to merit such regulations. Arguments for gun control rest on deceptive claims such as National Coalition to Ban Handguns’ allegation that “most murders are committed by previously law-abiding citizens.” Americans are deluged by literally dozens of supposedly scholarly articles asserting such falsehoods — but with no supporting references. For there are none."