From: [s--rb--k] at [galaxy.ucr.edu] (starbuck)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: The Armed Citizen - Woman's Edition (cont)
Date: 5 Aug 93 02:28:26 GMT

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From The Armed  Citizen Column =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= American Rifileman 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 )

Knowing the "protection" aforded her by a court restraining order was minimal
at best, Viroqua Wisconsin, resident Lynn McMillen decided to back it up with
a .357 magnum.  When McMillen's ex-husband, accompanied by two companions, 
broke into the home where she was staying and thertened to kill her, she shot
and wounded him and an accomplice.  Saying McMillen's actions were in self-
defense, the local district attorney added "In this  case, the ones who were
shot are not the victims." 
( The Tribune, LaCrosse, WI, 3/12/93 )

Kim McCormack's opinion of Pheonix changed drastically after he and his
fiancee became engaged in a rush hour gun battle that left his 14 month 
daughter wounded in the arm.  Stopped for a traffic signal McCormack pulled
his truck forward after another car stopped alongside and the occupants 
flashed a handgun.  When they startd shooting, McCormack and fiancee Traci
Updike pulled their own pistols and returned fire, driving their assailants
away.  "The city is not safe," McCormack said, "For us, our guns are like an 
American Express card.  We never leave home without them."
( The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ, 4/8/93 )

Lillian Hazard wasn't kidding when she told an intruder in her Riverside,
California home he should "lay down or I'll shoot you."  Obviously thinking
the 85 year old grandmother wouldn't shoot, the man tried to stand.  Hazard
shot him in the shoulder.  "I wasn't scared, because I had my gun."  said
Hazard.  Police confiscated her pistol but said she would not be charged.
( The Bee, Modesto, 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 ) 

starbuck 

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