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From:
The American Rifleman
November/December, 1998

Studies indicate that firearms are used over two million times a year for personal protection, and that the 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 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

A Hayward, California, man was dozing on his couch late one evening when he heard heavy pounding at his front door. After several loud "thumps," the front door flew open in a hail of splinters, and a large man wearing a ski mask attempted to make his way inside. The shaken resident fired several times from his .38-cal. revolver, fatally wounding the homebreaker. An accomplice escaped. Police ruled the shooting justified. (San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, CA, 7/3//98)

When a quick-thinking Dover, Delaware, area resident heard a noise coming from his garage early one morning, he instructed his wife to call police and grabbed his shotgun to investigate. The resident startled an intruder and seized the element of surprise to strike the man in the head with the gun’ butt, holding him until police arrived. Police charged the home invader with various counts related to burglary. (News-Journal, Wilmington, DE, 8/5/98)

"I don’ like to feel like a victim," said Rachel Jackson of Red Springs, North Carolina, after successfully running off an attacker who broke into her home. Jackson, whose spine bifida confines her to a wheelchair, sprayed the man with tear gas. Then, while the man went to grab money from her purse, she pulled a .25-cal. pistol and fired four shots. After the man was later caught seeking treatment at a hospital, it was learned that he previously had been convicted of robbery, kidnapping and attempted rape. "God gave me the composure I needed to knock the panic and do what I needed to do," Jackson said later. (Fayetteville Observer-Times, Fayetteville, NC, 7/28/98)

A 27-year-old Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pizza delivery man was taking an order to what turned out to be a vacant house when he was accosted by a teen who demanded, "Give me the food, give me the money, give me your car, then I am going to shoot you in the head." The delivery man’ response was to pull a semi-automatic handgun -- which he is licensed to carry -- from his car and shoot his attacker. The wounded would-be robber fled, but police later found him hiding in nearby bushes. Police said the delivery man would not be charged in the incident. (Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh, PA, 7/27/98)

cream store were cleaning up after closing one evening when two men, both wearing handkerchiefs over part of their faces and one armed with a handgun, appeared at the building’ screen door. After demanding that the wife open the door, the nearest man forced the door open. The wife yelled for her husband, who pulled a derringer from his pocket and fired two rounds, sending both men fleeing. (Parma Sun Post, Parma, OH, 7/30/98)

Trucker Tom Baker, of Salem, Indiana, was watching the television news when he learned that a mental patient, who allegedly had viciously stabbed an elderly man to death before being committed, was on the loose. Later that day, while fueling his rig for a haul, Baker noticed a suspicious man nearby who soon was standing in front of his truck. The man looked familiar to Baker, who quickly realized who the suspicious character was. "My God. That’ that guy that killed that man," thought Baker. When the man stepped up onto the side of the truck and said he wanted to go to Dallas, Baker produced his gun and "told him to get off my truck." As the man began to walk away, Baker went inside the truckstop and called the local sheriff’ department. The man was in custody shortly thereafter. "I’ glad I had it with me," said Baker of his firearm. (Salem Leader-Democrat, Salem, IN, 8/4/98)

An argument between a man and a woman inside a Louisiana residence turned violent when the man allegedly doused the victim with gasoline and struck matches in an attempt to set her on fire. The woman swept up her two young children and fled the house, but was pursued by her tormentor. Once at her car, she retrieved a handgun and held off the man in order to make good her and her children’ escape. (The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, LA, 8/4/98)

When a Montclair, Virginia, man walked out of his house late one evening, he noticed two people near a car that had just been burglarized. The man returned to his house and grabbed a cellular telephone and a handgun. Back outside, he noticed the individuals breaking into yet another car, according to Prince William County Police Sgt. Kim Chinn. The man walked toward the suspects and ordered them onto the ground. One fled, but the other stayed put until police arrived. (Potomac News, Woodbridge, VA, 8/6/98)

Betty Joyce Lambeth was home one afternoon when she heard the sound of breaking glass coming from the door between her carport and kitchen. What happened next was even scarier: An arm reached through the opening and began to unlock the door. Lambeth retrieved her 9 mm Smith & Wesson handgun and fired one shot through the door, sending the arm -- and the suspect -- fleeing. (The Courier-Tribune, Ashboro, NC, 8/2798)

Tony Marshall’ Cincinnati computer store had already been robbed twice when yet a third incident occurred. A suspicious man wandered in asking about hardware Marshall said he didn’ carry. Marshall, who sensed the man had evil intentions, went to the back of the store where he kept a .38-cal. handgun. As Marshall came back to the front of the store, the man swiped a laptop computer and took off running. The armed Marshall gave chase and, along with a customer, cornered the man not far away. "I’ worked too hard to get what I have," said Marshall. Police said the storeowner committed no crime in apprehending the man. (The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, OH, 7/17/98)

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