There’s a reason firearms are sometimes called “great equalizers”: A gun in the hands of a law-abiding citizen can level the playing field with criminals, and give individuals a fighting chance against being prey.

That’s exactly what a handgun did for a cashier in Kinston, North Carolina. According to WITN News, an armed robbery at a convenience store went sideways after the employee refused to be a victim, and defended himself with a concealed pistol.

“Officers were called to the USA Store on 201 S. Adkin St. for a report of an armed robbery,” reported the local news station. “It happened right around 10pm. Officers were told that two black men entered the store and demanded money; one of them reportedly carried a rifle.”

The criminals no doubt thought that nobody would dare fight back if they were carrying a large gun. They thought wrong.

“Police say the store clerk fired a shot at the two suspects who then fled the scene in a silver vehicle,” continued WITN. Surveillance video was also released of the incident, and it shows the dramatic confrontation unfold.

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As the two men barge in, the second thug quickly raises his gun toward the employee behind the counter. Thinking quickly, the worker appears to step sideways and then draw his own handgun, targeting the intruders.

The moment the robbers see that their “victim” is armed, they panic and flee. In the confusion, the man with the rifle drops his own gun in the doorway, leaving a helpful piece of evidence behind for the police. How thoughtful.

It isn’t clear how many shots the clerk managed to get off or if any of the criminals were injured. Considering how well armed they were, however, it’s a safe bet that the employee’s concealed carry pistol may have saved his life.

Once again, the media and liberal narrative that “guns never solve anything” has been proven to be false. One look at this video shows just how quickly and dramatically one armed citizen changed the dynamics of the incident.

The simple fact is that most criminals seek out easy targets. Once those “victims” bare their proverbial teeth, thugs often go scurrying back where they came from.

That certainly doesn’t mean that guns are magic crime-stoppers, but case after case shows that firearms can protect people and save lives when seconds count.

For instance, the NRA’s “Armed Citizen” archive collects press and police reports of guns being used by Americans for self-defense. It contains thousands of real-life, verified instances of individuals using guns to defend themselves.

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Statistics back up a trend that no doubt drives gun-grabbers crazy: Gun ownership in America has been increasing, but violent crime numbers are actually declining.

“According to data retrieved from the Centers for Disease Control, there were 7 firearm-related homicides for every 100,000 Americans in 1993,” reported CNS News.

“By 2013, the gun homicide rate had fallen by nearly 50 percent to only 3.6 homicides per 100,000 population,” continued that news outlet.

But what about gun ownership stats?

“Adjusted for the U.S. population, the number of guns per American increased from 0.93 per person in 1993 to 1.45 in 2013, which is a 56 percent increase in the number of guns per person that occurred during the same period when gun violence decreased by 49 percent,” CNS explained.

There’s no getting around it: When in the right hands, guns can stop crime… and that’s what two thugs in North Carolina found out the hard way.

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Despite the leftist narrative that President Donald Trump shuts out the mainstream media, New York Times photographer Doug Mills says he has more access to Trump than he ever did to former President Barack Obama.

According to The Hill, Jones met with C-SPAN for a sit-down interview that airs Feb. 11.

In a preview of the clip, Jones applauds President Trump’s availability to the media.

“We’re getting a lot more, I mean from a photographer’s standpoint, we get a lot more access to the president,” Jones said.

“I see him more on a daily basis than we did with Barack Obama,” he continued. 

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When asked about his job photographing the president, Jones said: “It’s exhausting, but it’s great.”

“I love what I’m doing, I’ve got the greatest job in the world,” he stated.

Clearly, a man who works for the media would not admit he loves his job if President Trump was as awful as liberals portray him.

Watch a clip of the interview below:

.@DougMillsnyt on the White House & President Trump: “We’re getting a lot more, I mean from a photographer’s standpoint, we get a lot more access to the president. I see him more on a daily basis than we did with @BarackObama.”

Full Q&A airs Sunday (2/11) at 8pm ET on C-SPAN. pic.twitter.com/rJN9PbHDuO

— CSPAN (@cspan) February 9, 2018

Jones also called President Trump “one of the most iconic” presidents he has ever photographed.

“I look at just the past year in photographing Donald Trump and he’s probably one of the most iconic. It’s challenging but it’s fun,” Jones explained.

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According to Fortune, President Obama once criticized President Trump for his dealings with the media.

Obama liked to tout his own availability and the “transparency” of his administration.

If all that is true, why did President Obama grant the media limited access to his life in the White House? Was there something to hide?

Perhaps President Trump is fine with being transparent and available to the media because unlike Obama, he didn’t have anything to hide.

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Suburban Columbus, Ohio’s Westerville Police Department lost two officers Saturday when a suspect opened fire as they arrived to respond to a hung up 911 call.

Officer Eric Joering, 39, died at the scene. His partner, Officer Anthony Morelli, 54, made it to the Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center before succumbing to his wounds. According to Columbus CBS affiliate WBNS, the two veteran officers had been on the force 16 and 29 years respectively.

The suspect is in custody, but nothing about his identity has been made public. His motive is also unclear, but Cinncinati.com reported that it may have been a “potential” domestic violence situation.

Westerville police Chief Joe Morbitzer told reporters the two policemen were “immediately met with gunfire,” when they arrived at an apartment at 12:10 p.m., minutes after their department received a 911 call that quickly hung up. “The officers gave their lives in defense of others,” Morbitzer continued, calling his officers “true American heroes.”

“These were two of the best we had, this was their calling and they did it right, they knew how to do policing the right way, both of them,” Morbitzer said.

Joering once made headlines for his kindness in the line of duty when he bought lunch for a homeless man about whom “suspicious person” calls had been made.

Ohio’s leading politicians of both parties offered their condolences on hearing the tragic news. Governor John Kaisch, who lives in Westerville, tweeted:

The finest among us are those who risk it all everyday for our safety, and Officers Anthony Morelli and Eric Joering were those people. Their deaths are a terrible tragedy for my hometown of Westerville and all of Ohio. (1/2)

— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) February 10, 2018

I’ve spoken with Westerville’s city leaders and Chief Morbitzer and pledged whatever support they need from the highway patrol. We extend our prayers and deep condolences to their families and fellow officers. Let’s pledge ourselves to never forget their service. (2/2)

— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) February 10, 2018

President Donald Trump also offered his thoughts and prayers:

My thoughts and prayers are with the two police officers, their families, and everybody at the @WestervillePD. https://t.co/AoingY77Ky

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 10, 2018

Both victims are survived by their families, and Ohio Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #9 set up a GoFundMe to raise money for their support. The fundraiser quickly reached its $50,000 goal.

According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, Joering and Morelli are at least the 14th and 15th police officers killed in the line of duty in the United States in 2018. The figure for 2017 was 129 killed.

Democrats and the broader left have “targeted the white male … for extinction,” said Michael Savage on Thursday’s edition of his eponymous radio show, pointing to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) recent use of an anecdote involving her grandson to push racial politics.

On Wednesday, Pelosi described her six-year-old white grandson’s birthday wish to have brown skin as “beautiful” during a speech on the House floor:

I’m reminded of my own grandson. He is Irish, English, whatever, whatever, and Italian-American, he is a mix. But he looks more the other [Italian] side of the family, shall we say.

And when he had his sixth birthday … he had a very close friend whose name is Antonio, he’s from Guatemala. And he has beautiful tan skinned, beautiful brown eyes, and this was a proud day for me, because when my grandson blew out the candles on his cake, they said did you make a wish?

He said yes, he made a wish. What is your wish? I wish I had brown skin and brown eyes like Antonio.

So beautiful. So beautiful. The beauty is in the mix. The face of the future for our country is all-American. And that has many versions.

Savage described Pelosi’s anecdote as evidence of “child abuse” via the cultivation of self-loathing in a minor on racial grounds.

To tell a grandson that he should be ashamed of his own heritage and his own race is child abuse. This is the most powerful Democrat woman in America. This is a woman of Italian-American heritage who is boasting that she has so brainwashed her own grandson that he’s ashamed of his own race and his own heritage … Nancy Pelosi has committed child abuse by making her own grandson mistrust his own race and his own heritage … It is about the most racist thing I can imagine anyone would say. She is so stupid, that she says it with a smile and with glee and with pride. Her self-hatred is filled with pride.

“What Pelosi is doing has been done in this society for three or four decades,” said Savage. “They targeted the white male a long time ago. They targeted you for extinction, and it starts with very subtle things.”

Savage drew parallels between Nazi Germany’s anti-Semitic Nuremberg laws and contemporary neo-Marxist racial politics pushed by Democrats and leftists targeting whites.

“The cancer of hatred of Caucasians [and] white people,” said Savage, is advanced “every day” with narratives of “white privilege.”

“[Nancy Pelosi] runs in circles with the sickest people on the planet, people who hate white people,” said Savage.

Democrat politicians such as Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL), and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) “dispense such hatred [of whites] … on a daily basis,” said Savage.

“There are forces right now that want you gone from your own country,” said Savage. “They’re committing ethnic castration [and] verbal eugenics on a daily basis.”

“How can you let a thing like this go without understanding how sick this debate is and how demented these people are on the left with regard to race, and how obsessed they are with race?” asked Savage.

“How can anyone of European heritage ever vote for a Democrat?” asked Savage. “The worst Republican is safer for your future than any Democrat out there. They will kill all of us if this is not stopped.”

Colleges and universities are pushing left-wing racial agitation upon their student bodies, said Savage: “What do you think the radical feminist monsters are doing to your son and daughter in college by telling them that whiteness is a crime?”

Pelosi’s greater openness in pushing racial agitation, said Savage, may be a “gift” in combating Democrats and the broader left: “In many ways, I pray Nancy Pelosi stays there, because she’s the best gift we can ever have to save America from the scourge of progressivism.”

“White-bashing” and “cultural genocide” pushed by Pelosi would “result in deaths and violence,” said Savage in January.

Follow Robert Kraychik on Twitter at @rkraychik.