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Subject: Armed Citizen - 9/15/94
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 05:17:14 UTC
id AA02029; Wed, 28 Sep 94 22:56:38 -0700
id AA06359; Thu, 29 Sep 94 07:17:15 +0200
* Originally By: Ron Phillips
* Originally To: All
* Originally Re: Armed Citizen - 09/15/94
* Original Area: TlkPolGuns
THE ARMED CITIZEN
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Studies indicate that firearms are used over 2 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 constitutes an immediate, imminent
threat to life or limb, or, in some cases, property. Anyone is free
to quote or reproduce these accounts. Send clippings to: "The Armed
Citizen," 11250 Waples Mill Rd., Fairfax, VA 22030.
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ARMED CITIZEN - SEPTEMBER 15, 1994
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"I probably wouldn't have gone out there without a gun," says John
Gutt of Union Mills, Indiana. Gutt heard two bloodcurdling screams
in the early morning outside his rural home. While his daughter
called 911, he armed himself and went to investigate, clad only in
sweat pants. When he heard another scream and a woman's voice saying,
"He's got a gun," Gutt followed the voice to a field, where he found
a man on top of a partially clad woman. The would-be rapist ran off,
and Gutt escorted the woman to his home. Once police arrived, he
helped hunt down the culprit. Gutt later received a public service
award for his actions.
(The Herald Argus, LaPorte, IN, 07/14/94)
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"There's never a cop around when you need one," says Wayne Deal of
Morgantown, North Carolina. When he saw a woman run from a building
screaming that someone was stealing her car and kidnapping her son,
Deal hopped in his car and took off in hot pursuit. After a half-mile
chase, the criminal pulled over. "It looked like he'd pulled over to
push the child out of the car," says Deal. "So I pulled up with my
car and blocked him." Deal then retrieved the .22 pistol he legally
carries in his car and, firing a warning shot, ordered the fleeing
felon to stay put. Police arrived shortly and took the criminal into
custody. Mother and son were reunited.
(The Observer, Charlotte, NC, 06/15/94)
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, nurse Alysha Jackson called the police
often, complaining of threats and harassment by her estranged
husband. Eventually she obtained a restraining order, but in the end
it was a gun that saved her from him. Returning from work at
midnight, Jackson found her husband had broken into her apartment and
was waiting for her. He physically restrained her, but she escaped,
went for her gun, and locked herself in the bedroom. When her husband
kicked down the door, she shot him in the head, killing him. Police
called it an obvious case of justifiable homicide.
(The Advocate, Baton Rouge, LA, 06/07/94)
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It was a hot night in Sacramento, so 80-year-old Lillian Carlson
left her porch door open when she went to bed. This provided easy
access for an intruder, who appeared in the bedroom. Carlson reached
for the gun she has kept in her night stand for 50 years, aimed it at
her unwelcome guest, and said, "You can live or die. Which is it
going to be?" The culprit walked out and walked back in. Two shots
from Carlson's antique revolver convinced him to leave for good.
Police arrested a wounded suspect the next morning.
(The Bee, Sacramento, CA, 07/12/94)
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Jim LaChapelle says his house in Elgin, Illinois, has been
burglarized four times in 12 years. So when he came home and saw his
back door open and the door frame broken, he figured the crooks were
at it again. He was right. LaChapelle retrieved one of his guns,
confronted two juvenile intruders, and chased them to a locked room,
where he held them for police. One of the delinquents had been
released from jail a week before, where he served time on a weapons
charge.
(The Courier-News, Elgin, IL, 06/01/94)
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William Palmer, 63, retired from the San Francisco police force
last year, but his training still comes in handy. Palmer and his
wife were pulling into their garage when a man entered right behind
them, aimed a gun at Palmer's head, and ordered the couple out of the
car. As he climbed out, Palmer knocked the gun from the criminal's
hand, drew his own pistol, and shot four times. The wounded suspect
and an accomplice were charged with attempted robbery, attempted
car-jacking, burglary, and conspiracy.
(The Examiner, San Francisco, CA, 06/17/94)
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A Phoenix motorist stopping at a convenience store for gas got the
feeling that something was wrong when a "clerk" told him to take all
the gas he wanted. The real clerk was handcuffed on the floor behind
the counter with a gun to his head. The alert customer returned to
his car, got his gun, and walked to a pay phone to call 911. Seeing
this, the robber exited the store and began firing. The customer
returned fire, hitting his target in the shoulder. Police arrested
the wounded criminal later.
(The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ, 05/15/94)
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There's no question about Maryland House of Delegates candidate
Anthony J. Narutowicz's stand on gun control. Narutowicz and his
business partner were leaving a bank in the Baltimore suburb of
Dundalk when a van pulled up beside them. The van's doors swung open
and two armed men demanded money. Both Narutowicz and his partner
quickly pulled their own legally carried weapons and opened fire.
The van sped away. Police found the abandoned vehicle later,
pockmarked with bulled holes and stained with blood.
(The Sun, Baltimore, MD, 06/15/94)
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At 10:30 a.m., in broad daylight, a 35-year-old woman was getting
out of her car in a Montgomery, Alabama, parking lot. That's when a
man approached from behind, knocked her unconscious, pushed her back
into her vehicle, and drove away with her. When she came to, he had
driven to some woods. She struggled with him briefly, and then
remembered the .38 revolver in her glove compartment. She shot twice,
missing, but scaring the daylights out of the kidnapper, who slammed
on the brakes and raced away on foot. He remains at large.
(The Advertiser, Montgomery, AL, 07/11/94)
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A 300-lb. bear broke into Colfax County, New Mexico, ranger Jim
Marchetti's home, helping himself to a free meal. Several days later,
the bear was back. This time Marchetti was ready for him. Awakened
by his barking dog at 3 a.m., Marchetti grabbed his flashlight and
his .44 Mag. and went to investigate. He found the bruin in the
kitchen. "...he looked right at me and started to rise up. I wasn't
sure what that look meant, whether he was going to come at me or go
the other way. I helped him make up his mind." The wounded bear
escaped; Marchetti tracked it and finished it off the next morning.
(The Journal, Albuquerque, NM, 07/06/94)
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