Woman with Gun Stops Home Invasion - No Shots Fired

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On January 11, 2013 in broad daylight in Shawnee, OK a woman, Pam Loman, was home alone when she heard someone knocking on her front door. Looking through her window, she saw that there was one man at the door while two others waited in the car and they didn't look like they were door to door salesmen.

Loman retrieved her gun reluctantly, telling reporters later that her "instinct was to go get a gun. I don't know why, I never in my life felt like I needed to go get a gun." But the knocking turned into outright banging. She positioned herself several feet from the door, facing it head on. That's when the man outside delivery a powerful kick to the door, splintering the frame and causing the door to come flying open.

And then the home invader spotted her gun and immediately grabbed the handle, pulled the door closed, and ran to the getaway car and sped off.

Loman did not have to fire any shots, although she would have been justified.

This is a pretty boring story, right? One door was damaged, no shots fired, no one injured, but a gun, which Loman had never felt like she needed in her life, was what ultimately stopped a burglary at a minimum, quite possibly an assault or even her own murder.