Good Guys with a Gun — Five New Cases the National Press Ignored

A Marine veteran and a Massachusetts state trooper ended a Memorial Drive rifle attack in Cambridge after the suspect fired an estimated fifty to sixty rounds at motorists. Two armed citizens confronted a grocery-store shooter in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, after a Memorial Day attack left one woman dead. A Tennessee homeowner stopped a sword-wielding intruder in Dandridge. A Sacramento robbery victim disarmed his attacker and held him for police on Adriatic Sea Way. A Texas father stopped a carjacker during a nearly minute-long struggle with eight family members inside the SUV.

These are not hypotheticals. They are documented defensive gun uses — the kind of stories that run on local TV for one night and vanish from the national conversation by morning.

WTF News launched Good Guys with a Gun to fix that imbalance: a verified archive at wtfnews.tv/good-guys that combines curated cases with automatic updates from trusted feeds. When a new defensive gun use clears our filters, it lands in the database with location, outcome, source links, and tags you can search by state or incident type.

The mainstream narrative treats guns as problems waiting to happen. The data on defensive gun use tells a different story — hundreds of thousands of incidents annually where lawful owners stop violence without becoming the headline. Our job is not to sensationalize. Our job is to **document** what happened, cite the source, and let readers decide what it means for carry, training, and the political fights ahead.

Open the Good Guys with a Gun archive. Read the cases. Share the ones your neighbors never heard. That is how you change the conversation without waiting for a permission slip from Manhattan.