From: [s--rb--k] at [galaxy.ucr.edu] (starbuck)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns,soc.culture.usa
Subject: The Armed Citizen Jul 93 continued
Date: 1 Aug 93 16:57:09 GMT

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From The Armed  Citizen Column =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-  American Rifileman July 1993 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 
Studies indicate that firearms are used over 1 million times a year for
personal protection, and that presence of a firearm, without a shot being
fired, prevents crime in many instances.  Shooting usually can be justified
only where crime constirutes an immediate, imminent threat to life or
limb, or, in some cases, property.  Anyone is free to quote or reproduce
theses accounts.
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Kim McCormack's opinion of Pheonix changed drastically after he and his
fiancee became engaged in a rush hour gun battle that left his 14 month 
daughter wounded in the arm.  Stopped for a traffic signal McCormack pulled
his truck forward after another car stopped alongside and the occupants 
flashed a handgun.  When they started shooting, McCormack and fiancee Traci
Updike pulled their own pistols and returned fire, driving their assailants
away.  "The city is not safe," McCormack said, "For us, our guns are like an 
American Express card.  We never leave home without them."
( The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ, 4/8/93 )

A Denver liquor-store clerk sprung to action after an armed man entered his
store, fired a shot and threatened the clerk and a customer friend.  When
the gunman threatened the friend, the clerk jumped over the counter and both
men struggled with the robber.  The clerk was finally able to get the store's
gun from under the counter, fired twice and killed the attacker.  Police said
the clerk would not be charged. 
( The Post, Denver, CO, 3/17/93 ) 

In Washington, where armed criminals run rampant but honest citizens are denied
the right to own handguns for personal protection one city resident stood up
for himself when he shot a man who tried to rob him in his home.  The home-
owner had given the thug a bucket of water, but when the bucket was returned,
the good samaritain found himself looking down the barrel of a pistol. 
Raising his hands as ordered he grabbed a pistol he had secreted on a shelf
and shot the would be robber.  Police confiscated his gun but the district
commander said, "If the circumstances are as they seem, I don't think justice
will be served if they charge this guy".  
( The Times, Washington, D.C., 5/5/93 )

to be continued, 

starbuck 

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