From: [s--rb--k] at [galaxy.ucr.edu] (starbuck)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns,soc.culture.usa
Subject: The Armed Citizen jul 93 end
Date: 1 Aug 93 17:24:54 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
these accounts. 
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David Sager of Pearblossom, California, knew he didn't leave the lights on
in his home, so he suspected a burglar.  His fears were confirmed when a man
armed with a kitchen knife dashed out the front door.  Sager, armed, due to a
burglary only the day before, tackled the housebreaker, tied him up with an
extension cord and held him at gun point for the police.
( The Antelope Valley Press, Palmadale, CA, 3/11/93 )

A Brazen mid-afternoon robbery ended in death for a robber when the owner
of a Bay Shore, New York, fur shop fought back.  Boltidis Anastasios was in
his store when a man a woman walked in and assaulted him.  Anastasios was 
able to reach his shotgun and fired several blasts, killing the woman.  The
man fled to a waiting car, with Anastasios in pursuit and firing several more
blasts.  Ploice latter apprehended several wounded suspects.
( Newsday, Long Island, NY, 2/26/93 )

Lillian Hazard wasn't kidding when she told an intruder in her Riverside,
California home he should "lay down or I'll shoot you."  Obviously thinking
the 85 year old grandmother wouldn't shoot, the man tried to stand.  Hazard
shot him in the shoulder.  "I wasn't scared, because I had my gun."  said
Hazard.  Police confiscated her pistol but said she would not be charged.
( The Bee, Modesto, CA. 4/27/93 )

Minutes after an alarm sounded down the street, Blaine Huey's dog started
to bark.  Huey, working in the back yard of his Emberrville, Pennsylvania,
home, walked in and found a man in the living room.  After the man tossed a
coal bucket at him, Huey shot him twice with a 10mm pistol.  The wounded
burgalar ran, but collasped in the basement.  Police said Huey was justified
in shootin the intruder.
( The Daily Record, Coatsville, PA 3/9/93 ) 

more latter,

starbuck 

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