From: [s--rb--k] at [galaxy.ucr.edu] (starbuck)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns,soc.culture.usa
Subject: The Armed Citizen - August edition 2/3
Date: 3 Aug 93 04:52:29 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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Raped at knifepoint in her home, an Edmonds, Washington, woman exacted 
revenge.  Allowed by her attacker to go to the bathroom, instead she
pulled a pistol from her purse.  Firing several shots, she chased and
cornered the sex offender in a dounstairs bedrooom and held him for
police.  Several weeks later the man pleaded guilty to eight rapes in
a six-month period.
( The Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, WA, 5/14/93 )

James Henry sees his fatal shooting of an intruder to his Tulsa, Oklahoma,
home as a clear case of self-defense.  "I had to do it, I am too old to
run, Henry said.  When the man started banging on the door to his apartment,
Henry retreated to his bedroom, grabbed a gun and phoned police.  Though
the police dispatcher told him not to shoot, Henry squeezed off a single 
round, mortally wounding the man, when he opened the door to the room.
( The World, Tulsa, OK, 4/18/93 )

Standing in the kitchen of his New Cassel, New Yourk, home, facing a
robber armed with a shotgun, Archell Freeman surrendered his cash and
gold jewelry.  When the crook demanded more loot, Freeman led him into 
the and grabbed a revolver off a shelf.  Firing several times, Freeman
mortally wounded the gunman.
( Newsday, New York, NY, 3/26/93 )

A Wichita, Kansas, Pizza-shop clerk got the best of two robbers, one
armed, when he pulled his own pistol and shot it out with them.  The 
clerk, alone in the store when the criminal duo entered, grabbed his
pistol in response to demands for money.  The robber fired first and
missed, while the clerk's aim was true.  The pair fled, but the wounded
crook collapsed and was captured.  Police affirmed the clerk's right to 
defend himself with a hand gun.
( The Eagle, Wichita, KS, 3/25/93 )

starbuck 

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