How often do you hear about armed citizens making any sort of difference in common life/battling crime?
not too much when it happens, but there are hundreds of events per year, maybe thousands.
Gun magazines publish them.
My brother's pharmacy was robbed- two masked gunman entered with guns raised - the plan was to kill my bro and the other worker and grab a pallet of oxys. He was armed and got lucky and fired first. Wounded one and the other lost his nerve and my bro decided not to shoot him in back as he fled. Both were caught ... once still craps in a bag now and got 11 years for the incidenct.
anyway, his story got 1 paragrph in the local newspaper, and 1 full page in some gun magazine a few months later with all the details. And the local media did 1 video interview, and the only line they used was "i was scared".... not major coverage, as they don't want a million heros running around shooting. But if you are capable, legal, and someone does intend to kill you, and the right thing happens, thry don't cover it much.