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“The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor — The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi” This is a fascinating book about a labor leader who has had tremendous influence on our lives, but whose name is not even known by millions of Americans. Please read my review.

From:  The American Rifleman  November/December, 2000

A wheelchair-bound Ocean Shores, Wash., resident was asleep at home when an apparent drunk toting a mass of uprooted blackberry bushes came inside and commenced a meandering soliloquy. The stunned homeowner –  realizing the man’s behavior was as dangerous as it was comic – cautiously trailed the man to the kitchen door. Once outside, the home invader attempted to come back in by kicking out a tall window that shattered with a bomb-like report. By then, the dumfounded resident had armed himself with a .22-cal. handgun. When his attacker picked up a five-gallon propane bottle and hurled it through yet another window – hitting the homeowner – the resident fired. Police later arrested the man who turned out to be a biker in town for a motorcycle gathering. Still alive, his chest bore a symbol more ominous than any tattoo: the wound from a .22-cal. bullet. (The Daily World, Aberdeen, Wash., 7/31/00)

Days after several men pistol whipped Curtis Williams in the back yard of his Bessemer, Ala., home and threatened his 82-year-old mother in a dispute about a stolen television set, one of the men came back for more. Williams, who walks with a cane, told police that as the man approached they exchanged words. “I warned him not to come forward,” said Williams. But as he continued to advance, the man reached into a bag. That’s when Williams fired a fatal shot from his .22 rifle. “I wasn’t going to let them kill me and my mother.” William’s assailant had a criminal history that included convictions for robbery and assault. (The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Ala., 5/6/00)

A Greenback, Tenn., resident found himself in a real-life version of the “Goldilocks” fable after returning to his home in the early morning hours. Lawrence L. Grindle told authorities he found a complete stranger asleep in a bed in his house. After quietly retrieving a rifle, Grindle trained it on the man until authorities arrived. Deputies had difficulty waking the still-slumbering man who was later charged with criminal trespassing and public intoxication. (The Daily Times, Maryville, Tenn., 7/4/00)

In an effort to beat the summer heat, Leroy Weaver and his pregnant wife, Cynthia, decided to sleep in a basement recreation room of their Joliet, Ill., home. When the couple realized there was an intruder in the house, Leroy Weaver quietly made his way to the office and armed himself with a .40 S&W-cal. Glock pistol. He then went after the brazen home invader. When he saw a man move in the dining room, he pointed the gun and shouted, “Hey you! Freeze!” before ordering the man to the floor. Police arrived to find the intruder held at gunpoint. Weaver said later of his trusty Glock, “I won’t ever be without it.” (The Herald News, Joliet, Ill., 7/18/00)

A physician barely escaped with his life when a man dived through a window in his Huntington Beach, Calif., home. When the intruder came to his feet, he stabbed the doctor in the hand with a small knife. “The victim was able to obtain a handgun … and the victim’s wife called police,” said Huntington Beach police Lt. Luis Ochoa. Incredibly, even though the resident held his attacker at gunpoint until police arrived, the man reprised his stunt, breaking through another window, then fled on foot. Officers caught up soon after and arrested the man. (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., 6/23/00)

According to police, a Daytona Beach, Fla., convenience store owner was behind his counter when Darrance Solomon Adams walked inside and demanded money shouting, “Give it up! Give it up!” The owner quickly locked the cash drawer then fumbled with the buttons in an attempt to convince Adams he couldn’t open it. When a customer fled the scene, Adams became even more nervous and lunged at his prey with a serrated kitchen knife. The owner quelled the threat with several shots from a 9 mm Luger handgun. Two proved fatal to Adams who had served time for assault and drug possession. (The News-Journal, Daytona Beach, Fla., 7/20/00)

Eighty-four-year-old William Harris was in his Southampton, N.J., home one morning when a man intent on burglary ripped out a back porch door screen and broke a chain on the kitchen door, according to police. When Harris, recovering in bed from cataract surgery, heard roommate Benjamin Davis yell out a warning, he grabbed his 16-ga. shotgun from a closet. When he met the intruder in the darkened kitchen, the man thought the better of his plan and fled. Davis later said of Harris, “He’s not a pushover. He’ll stand up as long as he can to whatever he has to.” (Newsday, Melville, N.Y., 8/5/00)

Shortly before 3 a.m. one Sunday, a West Central City, Utah, couple was awakened by the sounds of someone pounding on a glass door to their home. When the glass broke, an intruder made his way inside. According to the homeowner’s son, “[The intruder] looked at my dad with death in his eyes and said, ‘Adios, amigos.’ They were terrified … he came at them violently.” One bullet from the man’s .40-cal. handgun fatally struck the intruder. The son later remarked of his father, “I can’t imagine him intentionally hurting another person, but what choice did he have?” (Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah, 5/22/00)

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