Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.guns
From: [m--l--n] at [ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM] (Mark O. Wilson)
Subject: A gun would have saved him
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 17:26:09 GMT

from the Atlanta Constitution. 1-7-94, pg. B2

    Jessie Wesley will be buried today by family, friends, fellow cabdrivers
and a boss who thinks he would be alive if had carried a gun.
    A few hours before he was shot in the abdomen, Wesley had said he was
worried about a rash of carjackings by gun-wielding youths in the south
metro area.
    Most of the other drivers at Day & Night Cab Co. in College Park carry
guns for protection says Wesley's boss, Ed Dunson.
    They have to, Dunson says. "They don't have any other choice."
    But Wesley, who had run afoul of the law with guns, carried only a knife.
"Apparently he didn't have a chance to use it." Dunson says. "Jesse was
tough, he knew the game."
    The game was driving a cab, the most dangerous job in America. Taxicabs
have become the ATM's on wheels. One-stop shopping for street prowlers who can
get both money and transportation with a single bullet.
    A fellow driver found Wesley dying early Sunday.
    "He found Jessie lying in the street." Dunson says. "He doesn't want
anybody to know his name. His emotional state is not good. He will probably
never drive again. It's tough to watch somebody die."
    Wesley used to carry a gun on the seat beside him.
But he was charged with a weapons violation by Atlanta Police. Some time
after that arrest, Wesley shot a passenger who pulled a knife.
    "It was a giant fat lady, we weren't sure if it was a woman or a man in
disguise putting a knife to the throats of drivers." Dunson recalls. "She
put a knife to Jessie's throat and he shot her twice." She lived.
    "In Fulton County court, apparently the judge warned him that if he got
into trouble with a gun again he would go to jail and serve some time."
Dunson says.
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