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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
December, 1995

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 22030December, 1995

Police believe the man who abducted a Shasta County, California, woman at knife point and forced her to drive her vehicle to a remote location may have been intending to sexually assault her. Instead, when the scruffy would-be rapist stepped from the car for a moment, the woman retrieved a pistol and shot at the man, who fled into the darkness. (The Record Searchlight, Redding, CA, 7/28/95)

With police already on the lookout, Scott Fitzgerald decided to join in the search for a would-be housebreaker who had attempted to break into his East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, home where his wife and seven-week-old daughter had been. Fitzgerald spotted the thug in a church yard, gathering his loot from a previous burglary, and confronted him with his 9 mm semi-auto. Despite being told to "Freeze," the criminal dashed into some nearby woods. Fitzgerald alerted the police, who arrested the crook after he was sniffed out by a police dog. (The Herald, Boston, MA, 9/14/95)

One crook had already charged out of the Broomfield, Colorado, liquor store with a case of beer tucked under his arm, when a second tried to follow, toting a bottle of rum and a canister of pepper spray. The clerk put a quick end to the second thief's plans of escape, however, by drawing down on the young crook with a .45 cal. semi-automatic pistol and holding him for police. (The Enterprise, Broomfield, CO, 8/17/95)

Ninety-two-year-old Conrad Schwarzkopf had been sleeping in his Long Island, New York, home when a punk four times his junior barged into his bedroom and began beating him up. Schwarzkopf tried to fight back, but was just no match for the younger man, and wound up being tossed into a closet. There, as the man ransacked the house searching for money, Schwarzkopf found the semi-automatic pistol he kept in the closet and emerged from its darkness firing, striking his assailant in the hand and chest. The injured criminal immediately ran to a nearby pay phone where he called police and confessed to robbing a house and being shot by the homeowner. (The Times, New York, NY, 9/7195)

A Hamden, Connecticut, man tried every way possible to force a pit bull to release his Pekinese puppy from its jaws, including biting the huge, aggressive dog in the head himself. Finally, after a 10-minute struggle, John Phillips drew his pistol and shot the pit bull, killing it. (The Courant, Hartford, CT, 8/30/95)

Carla McCoy, a 19-year-old college student, was at her parents' Covington, Georgia, home when she was alerted to a strange man attempting to enter the house through a window. McCoy grabbed a .38, called 911, and then went downstairs to investigate. Reaching the living room, she encountered the intruder, who, at the sight of the gun, begged her not to shoot him and immediately exited the residence from the same window he had entered. McCoy never even had to point the gun at the frightened invader. "I'm extremely thankful that nothing happened here," said the student's father. "The fact that she was armed had something to do with that." (The News, Covington, GA, 8/24/95)

When Maria Fernandez hesitated in opening the cash register for the armed robber before her, he reached across the counter to open it himself. The momentary diversion gave Fernandez's husband, Santiago, 76, the chance he needed to stride from the rear of the small Elizabeth, New Jersey, grocery store and shoot the man with his .38. Injured, the crook dropped his gun and ran from the store. He was later arrested at a hospital. (The Star-Ledger, Elizabeth, NJ, 7/6/95)

The life of a gang member suspected of participating in as many as seven armed robberies in Fort Wayne, Indiana, came to its inevitable end after an employee of a pawn shop he was holding up fatally shot him. His two accomplices quickly fled the scene. Said Det. Al Glock about the store employee: "That man knows what his rights are and he's willing to go to the utmost degree to protect his rights. I respect him greatly for standing up for what he knows is right. I think that (the shooting) not only is totally justifiable, but it sends a good, clear, strong message that if you're going to play the game, you're going to pay the price." (The News Sentinel, Fort Wayne, IN, 8/17/95)

At the sound of screams, 15-year-old Derek Lohman looked out the window of his Washoe Valley, Nevada, home and saw his elderly neighbor being viciously mauled by the man's own dog. Lohman instantly grabbed the pellet gun he had received as a birthday present and charged to the rescue, shooting the dog more than 10 times before the wounded animal gave up its relentless attack. Lohman then lifted his seriously wounded neighbor over a fence and carried him to safety. (The Gazette-Journal, Reno, NV, 9/20/95)

An attack in a Big Coppit Key, Florida, apartment turned into a free-for-all after the assailant's hammer broke as he struck a sleeping man in the head. The victim and his girlfriend awoke and began struggling with the intruder, who then retreated to a bathroom where he locked the door. A houseguest, who had been sleeping on the couch, was awakened by the commotion, grabbed his host's firearm and kicked in the bathroom door. He held the suspect for the police. (The Lower Keys Barometer, Big Pine Key, FL, 7/13/95)

Knocked to the floor of his Corinth, Mississippi, home by a knife-wielding attacker and told that he was about to be killed, the 80-year-old man offered his money and car keys to the thug in hopes of appeasing him. It was to no avail, however, as the assailant forced the man to a bedroom and again informed him he was about to die. When his tormentor momentarily left the room, the elderly man took his only chance for survival. Grabbing his .38, he charged into the hall and loosed two rounds at his attacker, who immediately fled the home. (The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo, MS, 9/26/95)

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