A would-be victim thwarted a robbery attempt by three men in the parking lot of a Fayetteville, North Carolina hotel using a .22 caliber rifle, and defended two companions in the process.

The Good Samaritan heard the disturbance from the parking lot, entered the nail salon, and held Nguyen at gunpoint until the Grand Prairie Police arrived on scene, according to a police department press release.

Robert Rodriguez, a former sheriff’s deputy, and his wife were sound asleep when an intruder kicked in the front door of their South Austin, Texas home in the middle of the night.

A resource officer armed with a gun exchanged shots with a gunman firing on students at a Maryland high school yesterday. The incident lasted about a minute, according to the local county sheriff. The gunman, so far, has been the only person to die from the shooting.

What would you do if someone entered your family store with a shotgun and demanded you hand over all the money in the register?

Derek Meyer is being hailed “a Good Samaritan” by the media for showing his firearm and rescuing a policeman from a brutal attack.