From: [s--rb--k] at [galaxy.ucr.edu] (starbuck)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns,soc.culture.usa
Subject: The Armed Citizen - August 93 edition 3/3
Date: 4 Aug 93 00:39:26 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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Arriving at his Fullerton, California, home late one night with $1,200 in
receipts from his bar, Elias Torres was grabbed from behind while another
threatened him with a handgun.  Torres pulled his own pistol and fired twice,
killing the gunman.  Although Torres was carrying the gun -- after eariler
assults -- without a permit, police said he was justified in killing his
attacker.  "[The shooting] is indicative of the current environment with
street robberies and carjackings and people ... arming themselves." one
officer said.
( The Orange County Register, Santa Ana CA 4/27/93 ) 

Alone in her Albuqquerque home one morning, Catherine Mobley armed herself
with a handgun when a man intent on burglary brok through a sliding glass
door, Mobley ordered the man to leave, but when he refused, she shot and
killed him.  "If it appears to be what it appears to be, this is not an
open and shut,"  said the DA.  "It's a shut and shut case." 
( The Journal Albuquerque, NM, 5/12/93 ) 

After enduring several months of vandalism directed at him by another man,
Lanny Spurlock of Culleoka, Tennessee, took action when the vandal and an
accomplice kicked in the door to Spurlock's home hours after challenging
him to a fight.  As the duo entered the home, Spurlock, armed with a handgun
fired three times, slighly wounding his tormentors and putting both to flight.
( The Daily Herald, Columbia, TN, 5/10/93 )

A man fleeing Houston police made a fatal mistake when he jumped through the 
window of a home owned by an armed citizen.  Awakened by the noise, the home-
owneer grabbed his gun and, finding the intruder armed with a pistol, shot
and killed him.
( The Post, Houston, TX, 4/7/93 )

Comming soon.

The Best of the Armed Citizen of 92-93.
The Armed Citizen - Women's edition. 

starbuck 

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