[ed. The following is an inexhaustive and ongoing list of people who have used their second amendment rights in order to protect their home, themselves and/or their family and lived to tell their story. The perpetrators of these crimes were violent thugs that care nothing about proper "paper work", "registration" or "executive orders" and these people are not going away...]
15 Jan 2013
Tennessee Family Uses Firearms to Stop Late Night Intruder
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/15/Tennessee-Family-Uses-Firearms-To-Stop-Late-Night-Intruder
Oct. 20, 2012
12-Year-Old Girl Home Alone Uses Family Gun to Shoot Intruder
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/10/20/12-year-old-girl-home-alone-uses-family-gun-to-shoot-intruder/
Very good link with plenty of instances to prove our point. (highly recommended)
http://www.akdart.com/gun3.html