Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc From: [an 25970] at [anon.penet.fi] (Canadian Remailer) Subject: "The Armed Citizen" 10-20-94 Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 05:35:44 UTC THE ARMED CITIZEN +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARMED CITIZEN - OCTOBER 20, 1994 ===================================================================== Paintball guns are used in recreational war games to simulate a "hit." If combatants wear proper protective gear, the paintballs can't really hurt anyone. But, as two Canton, New York, teenagers discovered, they can be handy for stopping a crime. The two youths were waiting to ambush some fellow paintball enthusiasts when they witnessed a female jogger being attacked on a nearby jogging path. The boys fired several warning rounds, and as the attacker fled they fired again, hitting him as many as 30 times. The suspect, covered with brightly colored paint splotches, was picked up by police later. (The Daily Times, Watertown, NY, 07/06/94) ===================================================================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ===================================================================== Ski-masked burglars have been robbing and terrifying women in Des Moines, Iowa. But at least one criminal had the scare put on him. Ardela Oetting heard a noise in the middle of the night and saw someone on her patio. "I got my gun and I walked up to him while he was trying to open the glass door," says Oetting. "I pointed my .357 right at him and said, 'Can I help you?'" That was enough to send the felon fleeing. (The Register, Des Moines, IA, 07/15/94) ===================================================================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ===================================================================== "It's nice for a change to have the innocent unharmed and the bad guys shot," said a police detective in Vallejo, California, referring to an incident at the B-and-N convenience store. A masked youth entered the store late one night and pulled a gun on the store's clerk, who reacted quickly and drew his own licensed pistol. In an exchange of gunfire, the criminal was mortally wounded; the clerk was saved by a shield of bulletproof glass. (The Times, Contra Costa, CA, 08/28/94) ===================================================================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ===================================================================== Alanta fireman Darrell Willis had stopped to use a pay phone when four armed men approached and demanded his car. Willis decided to fight back, drawing his own gun and shooting two of his attackers. Willis suffered a gunshot wound to his leg, and all four criminals were apprehended by police at a local hospital. (The Constitution, Atlanta, GA, 07/20/94) ===================================================================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ===================================================================== Dennis Alameda didn't keep a gun in his Gilroy, California, house for protection, so when he heard noises in his garage early one morning, he reached for his baseball bat. It wasn't there. That's when he remembered the old shotgun his grandfather had given him. It took a few minutes to find it and remove it from its case, and then he realized the only shells he had were in the garage. Taking the unloaded gun to the garage, he confronted an obviously intoxicated intruder and held him on the ground while his wife called 911. Alameda says he is now considering hiding a few shotgun shells in the house. (The Dispatch, Gilroy, CA, 08/22/94) ===================================================================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ===================================================================== Four Tulsa, Oklahoma, boys did just what their parents told them to if they were ever home alone and in danger. When they heard someone trying to break down the front door, they went to their parents' room, where the oldest, 13, aimed his mother's .357 Mag. at the locked door while his brother dialed 911. The intruder entered the house, headed straight for the bedroom and tried to force that door open. That's when the oldest brother fired one shot through the door, killing the criminal. Police found rubber gloves, a folding knife and a large screwdriver in the man's pockets. The boys' father says, "The firearms training the boys received probably saved their lives." (The World, Tulsa, OK, 07/21/94) ===================================================================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ===================================================================== Oakland, California, resident Ella Brooks was taking the bus to her job as a security guard in San Francisco when another passenger, who had refused to pay his fare, pulled a knife and held it to the throat of an innocent bystander, threatening to kill him. Brooks brandished her .45 and ordered the crazed criminal to drop his weapon. He did not. Says Brooks, "...he was so close to the other man that for a while I couldn't do nothing. Then he moved his head three or four inches to the right. That's when I shot him." Police officials said the incident appeared to be justifiable homicide. (The Examiner, San Francisco, CA, 08/07/94) ===================================================================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ===================================================================== "If homeowners shot a few more burglars, it might act as a deterrent to the next guy thinking about breaking in somewhere," said Bucks County, Pennsylvania, District Attorney Alan Rubenstein. He made these remarks after announcing that no charges would be filed against Frank Luciano, who shot and killed a man breaking into Luciano's tool shed. Luciano and the culprit, a career criminal just released from prison, engaged in a struggle that ended with a blast from Luciano's 12-ga. shotgun. (The Courier Times, Levittown, PA, 08/02/94) ===================================================================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ===================================================================== A High Ridge, Missouri, woman who runs a beauty salon in her home had just finished with a customer when a masked man entered and assaulted her. She managed to break away, run upstairs, retrieve a .45 from her bedroom, and confront her assailant coming up the stairs. The tables turned as the sight of the gun was enough to send the perpetrator packing. (The Journal, Jefferson County, MO, 08/31/94) ===================================================================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ===================================================================== Eighty-year-old Louis Sylvester of Toulminville, Alabama, pulled into his driveway. In his car were his walker, which he needs to get around, and a .38 cal. pistol. He was approached by a young man brandishing a sawed-off .22 rifle and demanding that Sylvester surrender his car. Sylvester said he needed his walker to get out of the car. But, instead of reaching for the support, he grabbed his gun and shot the would-be carjacker, killing him. (The Register, Mobile, AL, 07/28/94) ===================================================================== - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ===================================================================== In what has become an all-too-familiar scenario, a four-year-old Hampton, Virginia, girl was attacked by a pair of vicious dogs at a neighborhood playground. Fortunately, neighbor DuBois Duke heard the child's screams. "I saw the little girl on the ground with one dog holding her neck and the other biting her thigh," says Duke. "They were ripping her apart." Duke loaded his pistol and raced outside, firing twice to scare the dogs. When they ran off, he rushed the girl to the hospital, where she received more than 40 stitches. (Daily Press, Newport News, VA, 08/23/94) ===================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find out more about the anon service, send mail to [h--p] at [anon.penet.fi.] Due to the double-blind, any mail replies to this message will be anonymized, and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned. Please report any problems, inappropriate use etc. to [a--m--n] at [anon.penet.fi.]