The Armed Citizen® Jan. 12, 2026

Armed Citizen® Today

During the night of Jan. 2, a resident heard what sounded like someone pounding on their front door in Newport, Ore. When they investigated, they saw one man repeatedly stabbing another on the front porch.

They attempted to intervene, but the assailant continued the attack, so the resident shot the assailant once, killing him. The stabbing victim was transported to the hospital in critical condition from multiple stab wounds. This attack appeared to be random, as there was no indication the 42-year-old assailant knew the 33-year-old victim or the home’s resident.

Police found an ID belonging to another man in the assailant’s possession, however, so they performed a welfare check for the ID holder. Receiving no response, they entered his location and found that 58-year-old man dead of multiple stab wounds. This victim was a known associate of the assailant. (Newport Oregon Police Department Facebook, Newport, Ore., 1/2/26 and 1/4/26)

From the Armed Citizen® Archives – April 1977

Although 19-year-old Rebecca Vigil of Stockton, Calif., had never fired a pistol in her life, when two armed robbers invaded her boy friend's gas station and began to beat him, she took effective action. She first located a hidden .22-cal. revolver and emptied it into one of the robbers, she then retrieved a pistol dropped by the fatally wounded thug and used it to shoot his partner. (The News-Sentinel, Lodi, Calif.)