From: [s--rb--k] at [galaxy.ucr.edu] (starbuck)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: The Armed Citizen - August edition 1/3
Date: 3 Aug 93 04:15:47 GMT

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From The Armed  Citizen Column =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- American Rifileman August 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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James Bracewell, 18, was in the stockroom of his father's Dublin, Georgia, 
liquor store when a man armed with a knife walked in, grabbed a female
clerk and demanded money.  The robber got the cash, but he make a mistake when
he threatened to kill the clerk and told Bracewell to give him the store's
handgun, kept under the counter.  Bracewell grabbed the gun and fired twice,
mortally wounding the robber.
( The Courier Hearld, Dublin, GA, 3/26/93 )

Stopping by to check on their son's Winnabow, North Carolina, home, Walter 
Babson heard noices, in the home.  Retreating to his car go get his .45,
Babson then searched the mobile home and found two men under a bed.  Babson
escorted the duo to the living room and called police.
( The Becon, Burnswick, NC, 5/6/93 )

A Ceresville, Maryland, man was sitting on the deck of his home with his wife
and daughter when an armed fugitive on the run from a manhunt suddenly 
appeared.  The homeowner got his family inside, locked the doors, grabbed his
gun and loaded it.  When the resident shouted that he was armed, the fugitive
- captured soon after by police - ran.  "It was a split-second decision to
lload the gun and threaten him", the man said, "But I didn't want him in my
house."
( The Post, Frederick, MD, 4/27/93 )

Modesto Aguilar, Sr., and his family sleep on the floor of their San Antonio,
Texas Home because it has been shot up by gang members so many times, but
Aguilar evened the score a little one evening.  Awakened by the familiar 
sound of bullets hitting his home, he got his M1 carbine and returned fire,
killing one of the criminals.  Two other fled.
( The Express-News, San Antonio, TX, 4/16/93 ) 

starbuck 
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