The Armed Citizen® July 18, 2025

Armed Citizen® Today

A 40-year-old Mississippi man with a criminal history was shot by a homeowner as he attempted to break into a property in Jones County, Miss.

County deputies arrested the man at a local hospital, where he was seeking treatment for a single gunshot wound to his arm. He was charged for breaking into a nearby residence, as well as the theft of a motor vehicle from a separate property. At the time of the incident, the man was on "supervised release" from the Mississippi Dept. of Corrections in relation to two previous burglary convictions. (WHLT News; 4/14/25; Jones County, Miss.)

From the Armed Citizen® Archives – November 1978  

While in the water at Bay St. Louis, Miss., beach, Karen Steirwald was assaulted by a man who put a knife to her throat and told her not to move or scream. After she begged him to let her get up and get her towel, the attacker, keeping the knife at her throat, walked her to the beach.

Reaching as if for the towel and pushing the knife away at the same time, Steirwald managed to grab her hidden revolver and point it at the man. He slowly backed off and fled with an accomplice. (The Sea Coast Echo, Bay St. Louis, Miss.)