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“We don’t mind them cop-watching. Just leave your guns in the car. Leave your guns at home,” a police spokesman said. “It just changes the dynamic when you show up with an AR-15 or an AK-47 on a traffic stop, especially in light of the national incidents that are occurring.

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The couple was suddenly awakened by girl's ex-boyfriend standing in their bedroom, forcing her out of the bed at gunpoint. But as he made his way to the front door with her, the woman's current boyfriend made his way to his shotgun.

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The day after he was released from jail after serving a 90-day sentence for domestic battery, he returned to the victim's home and threatened to kill her, but this time she refused to be a victim again.

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In what could be the final acts of a sensational case that brought debate on Stand Your Ground and warning shots in Florida, Marissa Alexander has entered into an agreement that effectively ends her legal fight.

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An Alabama woman on trial for fatally shooting her ex-husband in 2012 was sentenced to 25 years last week, but immediately following the sentencing, some of the jurors second-guessed their decision to convict her of murder after hearing testimonies of brutal abuse.

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Amy Young was required to surrender her .40-caliber service pistol last month when Dave Monroig's ex-wife, Nina Diaz-Monroig, filed a restraining order against Young, citing that she was in fear for the lives of her children following a deadly domestic dispute in July in which Monroig lost his life.

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The father declared he was going to take the child before him and the mother's new boyfriend became engaged in a confrontation. When the new boyfriend displayed a .38, the child's father retrieved a gun of his own – sort of.

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The man had held the woman against her will in a bedroom of the home for more than five hours, repeatedly assaulting her and threatening to kill her. But the tables were quickly turned when she was able to gain control of her attacker's rifle.

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What started as a custody battle ended with both parents dead and a little girl left an orphan after the man stabbed the woman 15 times before breaking into a nearby home where he was fatally shot by the homeowner.

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A Naples police officer is dead and another remains in the hospital following what authorities say was an apparent domestic dispute between the couple early Wednesday morning in their Estero, Fla. home.

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“He was just protecting his mother, he was very protective of her,” one neighbor said of the 18-year-old, who had just graduated from high school and planned to join the military.

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If the goal truly is to save lives – and who would argue with that – why not put more emphasis on the things which have been proven to reduce the violence before it increases to a deadly level?

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