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Anecdote, there won't be much, if any, data.
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that is a meaningless statement.Yet, until the stay at home order went into effect, we were seeing over one car jacking per day in our metropolitan area.
I am looking for examples of when a group (let’s say three or more) of perpetrators accosted an armed citizen, the citizen drew and fired- hitting one or more of the attackers, and the remaining attackers CONTINUED to press the engagement versus quickly finding another place to occupy. Off-duty or non-uniformed LEO could be included in the data, but lets not include uniformed LEO incidents, as that is another set of circumstances.
Thank you for your input.
I saw a video about him once. It included a clip from his security camera of one of the attacks. I was struck by his calm focus during the attack. He told his female employee where to position herself for cover, and was calmly speaking by phone to 911 WHILE ENGAGED IN THE GUNFIGHT. It was really remarkable.Here's the deal. If you have a very specific scenario playing in your head, trying to find one that matches it closely may be difficult. For one thing, there aren't a lot of repositories of civilian self-defense shootings that provide all the details that would be required to insure a close match. Then, even if you find such a repository, the odds are you will have to go through the thing line by line because it's probably not indexed with items like "unwounded attacker fights on", etc.
I think, that if you spend several months on careful research you could put together some pretty interesting information. Information that I, for one, would be interested in reading. But that kind of work is not fun, and most people aren't willing to grind through it. Which is why you are going to have a hard time getting a lot of information that fits your specific parameters.
That said, the Lance Thomas shootings provide some examples that are very generally similar to what you're looking for. Not CCW incidents, but incidents with multiple attackers where they didn't cut and run after one was shot.
https://forum.opencarry.org/index.php?threads/urban-gunfighter-the-lance-thomas-story.45333/
In Thomas' first shooting, 2 men tried to rob his store. He engaged (and killed) the first one, the other fled. Thomas upgraded his weapon after this shooting given that it had taken him 3 rounds of the 5 in the gun to stop only one of the attackers. He realized that the math wouldn't have worked out for two determined attackers. It was a good decision, his round count in his next shooting ran into double digits.
The next shooting also involved several men. He killed one, fired on another who fled, and killed the third who stood and fought. Thomas was shot multiple times, but survived. He fired 19 rounds in this encounter.
His fourth gunfight involved 2 attackers, both of whom fought it out. Thomas again prevailed, killing both of them.
We like to think that criminals are looking for an easy score and will give up when faced with resistance. That is certainly true of some criminals. However, some criminals expect resistance but believe they will win. Criminals with that mindset are willing to stand and fight.
Here's the only recent example of a group (three) attack on an armed citizen that I've seen lately:
https://bearingarms.com/came/2020/0...aign=nl&bcid=3f860a61dc9e5abb14609928744ca341
Yes.This is a very recent incident, and there don't appear to be enough details to know whether "the remaining attackers CONTINUED to press the engagement versus quickly finding another place to occupy." At least not yet.
Yes.
But if the shooing is ruled to have been justified, that well mean that all of the shootees did continue to press the attack.