From: [s--rb--k] at [galaxy.ucr.edu] (starbuck)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns,soc.women
Subject: The Armed Citizen - Women's edition
Date: 5 Aug 93 02:26:38 GMT

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From The Armed  Citizen Column =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= American Rifileman 92/93 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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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Stocking a cooler in the store where she works, a Eufaula, Okla., woman was
conforted by one of two men who entered the store.  Turning, the woman, saw
the second man behind her, his pants down.  She threw a case of beer at the
second man and ran to the counter, the duo in pursuit.  Getting a pistol kept
in a drawer, she drove the men from the premises without firing a shot.
( The News-Capital & Democrat, McAlester, Okla. 7/27/92 )

Sue Atkins had vowed not to be the victim of a robbery again, and made good
on her promise when a robber walked into the Durham N.C. Western Union where
she works, said he had a gun and demanded money.  What he got was an arm
wound from Atkins' pistol.  He ran, but police caught up with him nearby.
"The threat of a weapon is the same thing as armed robbery in North Carolina",
said a police officer.
( The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. 9/10/92 ) 

When a Kennard, Tex., woman stopped by her house on an errand, she was 
assaulted by a man she found burglarizing the residence.  Managing to get 
outside the house, she screamed and alerted Mildred Steed, her mother and 
next door neighbor.  Steed grabbed her .38 and fired sevral shots when she
saw her daughter pinned to the ground, a knife to her throat.  The shots
mortally wounded the attacker.
( The Houston Country Courier, Livingston, Tex.m, 1/17/92 ) 

After successfully fighting off a would be rapist while walking her dog, a
Murray, Utah, women, enraged over the incident, retrieved a pistol from her
home and went hunting for the man.  Finding him atttempting to hitch a ride
on a local highway, she held him at gunpoint until a passing motorist summoned
police.
( The tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah 8/6/92 ) 

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