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The suspects were much luckier than they realized, as the clerk not only had a sword behind the counter, but a gun as well.

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Witnesses said the altercation started when the man pulled into a gas station and started yelling racial slurs at a group of black men standing outside, but a friend of the driver claims he stopped for directions and only pushed back after he was first provoked.

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The machete worked this time, but the father of two said he's beefing up security and getting a gun.

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The victim normally wears sunglasses, as to not draw attention to his eyes, but had just exited the theater and still had them removed from watching the movie when the suspects confronted him.

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The suspect was surprised when the clerk pulled out a gun, but the clerk was even more surprised when the suspect dropped to the ground and played dead, considering the fact that he never even fired a shot.

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When James Cvengros heard screams outside his apartment, he armed himself with a gun and locked himself inside his apartment. But before doing so, he set up a video camera aimed in the direction of his door, and what he caught was a chilling scene.

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The would-be robber thought the 63-year-old was going to grab some cash, but instead he pulled out a metal pole before the two became engaged in what appears to be a straight up sword fight.

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"He did some karate move... he said that as soon as he heard the shot go off, he moved and it got the other guy," said one witness.

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A Florida deputy Tased a man who was threatening his wife with a machete, among other things, Tuesday. After Artie Lambert, 44, tried to cut his son-in-law with a knife, he went into the garage, armed himself with a handgun, and repeatedly banged his head against the wall. He also threatened to “shoot the cops” […]

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A Tuscaloosa, Alabama, homeowner fought off a machete-wielding burglar Sunday morning and then held the crook at gunpoint until police arrived. The homeowner and his wife were enjoying breakfast on their back porch when 21-year-old Daniel Pearman, armed with a machete and donning a mask, tried to burglarize them. The homeowner snapped into action and […]

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When the mother of two heard a strange noise in the middle of the night, she never expected to find a masked man with a machete tapping at her front door. But the man thought twice about trying to get in the house once she retrieved her handgun.

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While several store clerks have recently been fired over violating the 'no guns' policy, one store owner is doing just the opposite and actually bought a gun for his employee's protection after one machete-wielding clerk foiled an armed robbery.

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