You Don't Need That Kind Of Gun
"But when our shops were burning we called the police every five minutes; no response." -Carl Rhyu, after April 1992 L.A. riots
On the second day of the riots, the police had abandoned much of Koreatown. Jay Rhee, a storeowner in the area, stated to The Los Angeles Times, “we have lost faith in the police.”...
With the cops nowhere to be found, hundreds of people marauded through the streets towards Koreatown. The neighborhood suffered 45 percent of all the property damage and five fatalities of storeowners during the riots. Having had enough of waiting for police, Korean storeowners assembled into militias to protect themselves, their families, and businesses.
According to the Los Angeles Times, “From the rooftops of their supermarkets, a group of Koreans armed with shotguns and automatic weapons peered onto the smoky streets…
Rhee claimed that the storeowners shot off 500 rounds into the sky and ground in order to break up the masses of people. The only weapons able to clear that much ammo in a very short time are assault weapons. Single shot pistols or rifles might not have been able to deter the crowd hell-bent on destroying the neighborhood.
-Ryan James Girdusky 
Should it be renewed, the ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement. AWs were rarely used in gun crimes even before the ban.
-An Updated Assessment of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, Christopher S. Koper
The Court has held that “the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding.”
Liberal, Guns, Narrative, Oops
A pregnant woman is credited with saving the lives of her husband and daughter after she used an AR-15 to fatally gun down a home intruder, a report said.
The hero mom sprung into action when two intruders entered the family’s Lithia, Fla. home last week and pistol whipped her husband while violently grabbing their daughter...
The homeowner said he took a “severe beating,” but credited his wife for saving him. “I’ve got a fractured eye socket, a fractured sinus cavity, a concussion, 20 stitches and three staples in my head,” said King.
“Them guys came in with two normal pistols and my AR stopped it. [My wife] evened the playing field and kept them from killing me.”
Liberal, Guns, Narrative, Oops
On May 12th, Vance County, N.C., homeowner Jonathan Haith used an AR-15 to shoot an armed invader who kicked in the door of his house. According to Raleigh's ABC 11, Haith was in bed when he heard someone knocking around 9:30 a.m. Haith said, "I wanted to roll over and stay in the air conditioning, and I just ignored it." But Haith said the knocking continued for 15 minutes and was then followed "by a boom and a thud." The homeowner, who then pulled his AR-15 from under the bed, said, "I peeked around the corner, saw a tall, slender black gentleman standing over me with a pistol." The intruder fired a 9mm round at Haith and missed. Haith returned fire with the AR-15, striking the intruder in "the stomach and shoulder."
Crime, Guns, Narrative, Oops, Assault
On January 2, a Davie, Florida resident was able to gain control of his AK-47 and open fire on home intruders while they were attacking him. One of the intruders was killed and two others are on the run.
Liberal, Guns, Narrative, Oops
Graham was referencing Melinda Herman, the Loganville, GA mother who slid into a crawl space with her children to escape a burglar--a burglar she shot repeatedly with a .38 Special revolver but could not kill. Said Graham: "My basic premise is one bullet in the hand of a mentally unstable person or a convicted felon is one too many. Six bullets in the hands of a mother protecting her twin 9-year olds may not be enough."
Liberal, Government, Guns, Incompetence, Narrative
During the five days, mobs around Los Angeles looted stores, burnt 3,767 buildings, caused more than $1 billion in property damage, and led to the deaths of more than 50 people and left another 4,000 injured... On the second day of the riots, the police had abandoned much of Koreatown. Jay Rhee, a storeowner in the area, stated to The Los Angeles Times, “we have lost faith in the police.” With the cops nowhere to be found, hundreds of people marauded through the streets towards Koreatown. The neighborhood suffered 45 percent of all the property damage and five fatalities of storeowners during the riots. Having had enough of waiting for police, Korean storeowners assembled into militias to protect themselves, their families, and businesses. ... It would be 24 more hours until the National Guard arrived and another two days before the riots were completely put down.
On July 13, 1863, anti-draft violence erupted in New York City, resulting in four days of bloodshed, arson, looting, and mayhem...
By then, New York City was virtually undefended, as thousands of Union troops had left in late June in order to defend Pennsylvania against the recent invasion of Confederate commander Robert E. Lee, which culminated in the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3)...
At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, one of which he manned.
-Robert C. Kennedy