NH: Break-in ends in shooting: "A gunfight during a home invasion in Berlin left one person dead and at least three others injured late Wednesday night. The police said three men, at least two armed with handguns, forced their way into a basement apartment at 616 Third Ave. about 8 p.m. Once inside, they beat a male resident and pistol-whipped his girlfriend, the police said. After a struggle, the man who lived in the apartment was able to pick up his own handgun and fire a number of shots at his assailants, according to Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin. When the police arrived, they found one of the thwarted robbers, Nathaniel Stringfield, 23, of Berlin, dead in the apartment. He was shot through the stomach, the police said. A second person, who the police have not named, fled through an alley at the rear of the building, leaving a trail of splattered blood on the street. The police found the injured man in a boarding house at 827 Western Ave., just under a quarter mile from the shooting scene. Jason Rush, who was on his balcony overlooking the boarding house, said it appeared the man was shot in the face or head. Both people who were inside the apartment before the attempted robbery suffered "assault-like" injuries but are expected to survive, Strelzin said. He said the male resident was treated at the scene and his girlfriend was taken by ambulance to a local hospital and later released. Neither suffered gunshot wounds. No one has been charged in the incident.


NY police arrest the victim, let shooter escape: "City police arrested a 19-year-old man Tuesday night in connection with a shooting on Henry Street over the weekend. The exchange of gunfire started Saturday morning when Curtis Williams, 44, of the Bronx, fired a sawed-off shotgun into a crowd of about five people. Jarrin Rankin, of Kingston, fired back with a small-caliber pistol and hit Williams in the face, police said. City police caught Rankin Tuesday night as he stepped off a train in Poughkeepsie, on his way back from New York City. Rankin was charged with first-degree assault and criminal possession of a weapon, both felonies. He was jailed without bail. Meanwhile, police are still searching for Williams, who was released from Albany Medical Center on Monday."


FL: Home invader subdued, but escapes: "A home invasion robbery Tuesday night led to a fight and gunfire between an intruder and several occupants. A masked man entered the front door of a home on Birch Street at 6 p.m. and went to the third floor, according to the Walton County Sheriff’s Office said. The man then drew a gun on three men and a woman who were watching television and demanded money, the release said. One of the occupants reached for a gun behind the couch, a struggle ensued and the robber was subdued. After begging to be let go, the man pushed one of the occupants, which caused the .40 caliber handgun to go off. The man then opened the back door, jumped over the third-floor balcony and escaped, the release said. Walton County Sheriff Investigators have identified the intruder as 25-year-old Joshua Johnson of Destin. A warrant has been signed for his arrest on home invasion with a firearm and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon."


Gun control helps avoid psychological harm?: "To our way of thinking, having to shoot is a grave decision made in the face of grave danger, with the otherwise only alternative being to suffer the more severe trauma of rape, a mayhem, an abduction or murder. All gun control which seeks to discourage fighting back states that it's better to be beaten to death or to be abducted than to have to stop them with lethal force and live with that action. As I said last week, how can you refuse to fight back because of how it will make you feel? It could make you feel alive. Glad to be alive. Gun control creates its own wounds of one-sided brutality in deleting the authority of the citizen to act in time of danger. Gun control is a bluff, a fraud which says, in this case, that you will only hurt yourself emotionally if you shoot someone in self-defense. As I say often, Why don't you let us worry about that? Let's look at this nonsense a sec. Gun owners are not taught to shoot to kill, but to shoot to stop. This is because less-than-lethal doesn't cut it. LTL doesn't stop aggressors on drugs, armed aggression, stalking and surprise aggression, multiple assailants, nor does it stop a lot of aggression which rises to the level of grave danger. In discouraging serious-minded preparedness, the anti-violence minions lose sight of the main goal: survival. I mean, if you're going to refuse to fight back because it's disgusting, to hell with you."