If there’s one place that you definitely shouldn’t lose it and start stabbing someone, it’s in front of the police headquarters of a major city. One suspect in Dallas found that out the hard way on Friday.

It all started when two employees of a trucking business saw a man acting suspiciously within a fenced-in area near the property. When they attempted to escort him away, Lt. Max Geron — a spokesman with the Dallas police — said he pulled out a knife and started repeatedly stabbing one of the employees.

One of the employees, a woman, began screaming for help and yelling for someone to call 911. That’s when Sgt. Jackie Moore stepped in.

Moore, a 15-year veteran of the force, was parking her car nearby. And while she was off-duty, she had her gun with her. She confronted the attacker, ordering him to drop his weapon, she said. He didn’t. Instead, he started coming toward her. That’s when she pulled the trigger, killing him.

Major Jeff Cotner said witness described the attack came “without any motive, without any notice whatsoever.”

Lt. Max Geron said the incident began when two employees at a business on the street attempted to escort a suspicious man they discovered within a fenced in area off their property.

The victim was transported to a  local hospital, and early reports are that he may have a spinal cord injury but was awake and talking. Cotner said he is “optimistic” about the victim’s recovery.

Imagine this: you’re being tailgated and finally the offending vehicle passes you, flipping the bird as they sail by as if you were the one doing something wrong. You take a deep breath, exhale slowly and try to take comfort in thinking that someday justice will be served.

That’s probably what a Florida driver thought, except this driver got to see “instant karma” happen right before her eyes — and she caught it on camera.

The YouTuber going by the username Florida Driver posted video Wednesday, saying that she’d been tailed by the truck driver for three minutes.

“After about a minute, and me shaking my head, I pulled out my phone and started recording. I couldn’t move over because there were trucks in the right lane, and I sure as heck wasn’t going to speed on a rainy day with the roads being as slick as they were. I was turning left in about a half-mile when this happened,” the driver wrote.

“Now bear in mind, that this guy had already passed a truck in a left turn lane, was tailgating and driving recklessly on a wet slick road, wasn’t paying attention, and all in all being an ignorant [a**]. In the full video which I will post later, you will be able to see that not once was I mouthing off, I never brake checked him, and in fact until I watched the video after the accident I didn’t even know he shot a bird at me because I wasn’t looking at him at all, I was paying attention to the road while holding the phone up with my right hand,” the driver continued.

Just after the man driving the black Ford pickup truck passed this driver and changed lanes, he lost control and spun out into a grassy median.

“That’s what you get,” the woman filming yelled as she laughed.

Watch what the incident as it unfolded (Content warning: offensive hand gesture):

NOTE: To keep this self defense related, ask yourself at what point you would have been justified in discharging your firarm, if at all. Mentally prepare for these incidents and play them out in your head so if you find yourself in a similar situation, you will know how to respond.

 

According to the driver who recorded the footage, the man in the truck fled the scene but with the video, law enforcement were able to identify and charge the driver.

“This moron could have easily killed somebody with his moronic behavior, and my laughing at the end would have been replaced with tears. Needless to say though, I’ve never seen Karma come back so fast,” the videographer wrote.

A gun owner in Flint Township, Mich., has filed a lawsuit claiming he was stopped and arrested while legally openly carrying his pistol back in December. He ended up spending Christmas in jail.

Flint Township police say the man’s gun was covered by his coat, making the arrest legal. The police dashcam video of the incident doesn’t prove either side’s story conclusively, but it does provide some additional insight.

In the video, John David McMorris, 21, can be seen stopping and putting his hands over his head when an officer turned on his police car lights. The gun appears to be visible on his right hip in the video — and Michigan is an open carry state.

The cop disarms McMorris and orders him to place his hands on his police cruiser.

Explaining why the officer stopped McMorris, the attorney representing police in the case, G. Gus Morris, says the officer passed the man earlier and didn’t see the firearm. The officer is also heard on video telling McMorris that he didn’t see his gun when he passed him previously, therefore it must have been covered by his coat.

“I didn’t know the front of my coat was covering it, sir. I’m very sorry,” McMorris replies.

“Sorry’s gonna get you jail,” the cop shoots back. “That’s what sorry’s gonna get you.”

Because he believed the gun was covered by his coat when he saw McMorris earlier, the officer placed the man under arrest because he didn’t have a license to carry a concealed weapon, according to the attorney.

The dashcam video does not include the moment when the officer allegedly passed by McMorris for the first time.

Watch the raw footage below:

McMorris was arrested, searched then booked into the Genesee County Jail for allegedly carrying a concealed firearm without a permit, according to the lawsuit. He remained in jail until Dec. 26, causing him to miss the Christmas holiday.

The attorney representing McMorris in the lawsuit, Craig L. McAra, told MLive.com that making his client spend Christmas in jail only added “insult to injury.”

Police reportedly ended up releasing him from jail without filing any formal charges.

John Pierce, a lawyer with OpenCarry.org, said Flint Township is going to have a hard time explaining why McMorris was arrested after the officer may have failed to notice the man openly carrying a firearm when he drove past him. Plus, he explained, the firearm was clearly visible when the cop made the arrest.

“I think the township is in real trouble with this one,” Pierce added.

“The lawsuit is seeking more than $25,000 in actual and punitive damages for civil rights violations, false arrest and malicious prosecution,” MLive.com reports. “The case is pending in federal court. A trial is not expected until late 2014.”

California must allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed firearms in public, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, striking down the core of the state’s permit system for handguns.

In a 2-1 decision, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said San Diego County violates the Constitution’s Second Amendment by requiring residents to show “good cause” – and not merely the desire to protect themselves – to obtain a concealed-weapons permit.

State law requires applicants to demonstrate good cause, as well as good moral character, to carry concealed handguns, while leaving the permit process up to each city and county. The ruling, if it stands, would require local governments to issue permits to anyone who claims a need for self-protection.

“The right to bear arms includes the right to carry an operable firearm outside the home for the lawful purpose of self-defense,” said Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain in the majority opinion.

He disagreed with federal appeals courts that have upheld similar laws in New York, New Jersey and Maryland, while endorsing an appellate court that struck down Illinois’ absolute ban on concealed weapons in public. The split among appellate circuits increases the prospect that the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue.

The high court ruled in 2008 that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep a handgun in the home for self-defense, but has not addressed its application to carrying weapons in public.

California has long had some of the nation’s strongest restrictions on gun ownership, and, according to the court, is one of only eight states that allow local governments to deny concealed-weapons permits. The state formerly allowed residents to carry unloaded firearms in public, with ammunition in a separate container, but repealed that law at the start of 2013.

The ban on openly carrying guns made it impossible for most law-abiding citizens in counties like SanDiego to “bear arms” for self-defense, O’Scannlain said in Thursday’s ruling. He said the Second Amendment guarantee of the right to “bear arms” must include the right to carry weapons outside the home.

The risk of armed confrontation “is not limited to the home,” O’Scannlain said. He invoked the situations of “a woman toting a small handgun in her purse as she walks through a dangerous neighborhood, or a night-shift worker carrying a handgun in his coat as he travels to and from his job site.”

C.D. Michel, lawyer for the National Rifle and Pistol Foundation and individuals who challenged the San Diego County system, said sheriffs in many rural California counties already comply with the court’s standard by issuing gun permits to anyone who wants one for self-defense. But urban counties require evidence of a special need for a weapon, the requirement that the court invalidated, he said.

“The right to self-defense doesn’t end at your threshold,” Michel said.

James Chapin, the San Diego deputy county counsel who defended the permit system, said the county will ask the full appeals court for a rehearing before an 11-judge panel. The ruling will be on hold while that request is pending.

O’Scannlain, one of the court’s most conservative members, was joined by fellow conservative Connie Callahan in the majority, while liberal Judge Sidney Thomas dissented.

“Courts and state legislatures have long recognized the danger to public safety of allowing unregulated, concealed weapons to be carried in public,” Thomas said. By allowing permits only to those who show a special need for self-protection, he said, San Diego and other counties strike “a reasonable balance between individuals interest in self-defense and the public’s interest in limiting the proliferation of handguns in public spaces.”

You may or may not have caught it, but sandwiched near the middle of his State of the Union speech Tuesday night President Obama once again vowed action on guns.

President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

After being unable to push anti-gun legislation through Congress in 2013, Obama said he would act “with or without Congress.”

“Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day,” he said. “I’ve seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, police officers all over this country who say ‘we are not afraid.’ And I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, in our shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.

The line led to applause:

Anti-gun California State Sen. Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles) is being mocked by gun rights advocates after he made a number of inaccurate statements while promoting a bill that would require individuals who manufacturer homemade firearms to undergo background checks.

“This is a ghost gun,” de Leon begins, holding an unloaded rifle in his hands. “This right here has the ability with a .30-caliber clip to disperse with 30 bullets within half a second. Thirty magazine clip in half a second.”

A “ghost gun” generally refers to a firearm that doesn’t have a serial number or a homemade gun, like one created using a 3D printer.

For those not familiar with firearms or gun-related terminology, there are a number of issues with de Leon’s argument.

Firstly, there is no such thing as a “30-caliber clip” in the context of which he is speaking. He clearly is referring to a 30-round magazine. An ammunition magazine is different than a “clip,” but the two are often confused by those not familiar with guns. And though it’s obvious, there is also no such thing as a “30 magazine clip.”

Secondly, caliber refers the measurement of the width of a bullet or internal diameter of a gun barrel, not magazine capacity.

According to the Associated Press, the rifle on display in the video is indeed a homemade fully automatic rifle. Still, a rate of fire of 60 rounds per second — or 3,600 rounds per minute — is unlikely with a “homemade” rifle. Fully automatic weapons are also essentially banned already, even if they are homemade. The average rate of fire for a semi-automatic rifle is roughly 120 rounds per minute, depending on the shooter and reload time.

Now, it’s entirely possible that de Leon got nervous during his public address and mixed up his words and numbers. But it’s also possible that he needs to brush up on his gun knowledge.

YouTube user David West put together a video pointing out the flaws in de Leon’s remarks. The video, featured below, already has nearly 500,000 views.