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From:
The American Rifleman
March, 1992

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

Thomas Terry of Anniston, Alabama, was eating in a local restaurant late one evening when several armed men came in and announced a robbery. As the robbers tried to herd everyone into a walk-in cooler, Terry tried to escape through a locked door but alerted the crooks to his presence. When one approached the table where he was hiding, Terry pulled his .45, killed that man in an exchange of shots and wounded his accomplice. A third criminal fled. (The Star, Anniston, AL, 12/18/91)

Alerted when she saw a strange car drive up and the occupants knock on the door, a 19-year-old woman got a rifle and hid in a bedroom closet. When the men broke through a cellar door and entered the bedroom, she stepped out of the closet, trained the gun on them and ordered them out. They fled. (The Lawrence County Advocate, Lawrence, TN, 12/18/91)

Listening in on a police radio, Ron Sisk heard a police chase proceed through his community of Cottonwood, Arizona. When the suspect's stolen truck crashed into a car Sisk was following and he began to run, Sisk grabbed his gun and held the man for police. The fugitive was wanted on felony charges ranging from armed robbery to attempted murder committed during a week-long, two-state spree. (The Journal Extra, Cottonwood, AZ, 12/05/91)

Dennis Brown of Atlanta, Georgia, — featured in the January 1991 "Armed Citizen" — recently killed a second thug at the Atlanta, Georgia hotel where he works. Brown and a co-worker went to investigate an activated car alarm in the parking lot and brought a suspect back into the office. When he pulled a pistol and opened fire, both hotel employees returned the favor with their own guns, killing the gunman. (The Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, GA, 11/03/91)

Describing her attacker as a man who had once been "one of the family," Juliette Blackmon, 81, of Kansas City, Missouri, was forced to take action when he tried to rob them. After asking to use the bathroom, the man instead grabbed a knife from the kitchen and threatened her and her husband, Elliot. Elliot picked up a pistol from the bedroom, however, and passed it to his wife. Firing twice, she killed the man. "I had to do it," she said. "I'm a Christian woman, but we have to have protection." (The Star, Kansas City, MO, 10/24/91)

His store burglarized twice in a week, Denis Picard of Lewiston, Maine, was on hand for the third attempt. When he heard the door to the business being broken down, Picard got a shotgun and investigated. Finding a man pawing through a gun case, Picard ordered him to stop. When the intruder instead started to advance, Picard helped him make up his mind with a warning blast, then held him for police. (The Sun-Journal, Lewiston, ME, 10/09/91)

After watching two men kicking open the door to her home in a burglary attempt, a Kingwood, Texas, woman picked up a pistol and fired several shots, scaring them off. Police and local residents then conducted a manhunt to capture the pair, who police suspect in numerous other "kick" burglaries in the area. (The Echo, Houston, TX, 10/23/91)

Sweeping the walk in front of his Norristown, Pennsylvania, restaurant, Long Som heard his 10-year-old daughter screaming. Som pulled a pistol, for which he has a permit, and ran to where she had been loading boxes in the car, to find a man trying to carry her away. Deciding Som was serious after the businessman fired several shots in the air, the attacker dropped the girl and ran away. (The Times Herald, Norristown, PA, 12/16/91)

Delwin Smith was ready when two armed teenagers went on a crime spree which left one Houston, Alaska, resident wounded. After eluding the police, the teens broke into a home and struggled with the owner but fled into the woods after a shotgun one was carrying went off and wounded the man. Smith, knowing their location from bulletins on his police radio, was waiting when they emerged from the brush and held them at shotgun point until police arrived. (The Daily News, Anchorage, AK, 12/14/91)

After their son received several death threats, an Everett, Washington, couple arranged for an armed neighbor to be at their home when the boy arrived from school. When the man — a suspect in several sexual assaults on children — broke into the home, the neighbor struggled with and shot him. The intruder fled, but was later apprehended by police. (The Herald, Everett, WA, 12/19/91)

Citizens of Ivor, Virginia, turned out in force when two men robbed the local bank. After their car crashed while fleeing from police, the duo fled into a wooded area. Local residents immediately armed themselves and, along with police, surrounded the woods. The pair surrendered to a volunteer and an officer the next morning. Said one local resident, "Here, the feeling is 'Hey, you've got my money.'" (The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, VA, 10/20/91)

Two handgun-toting teenagers probably got the shocks of their lives when they attempted to rob a gas station in Richmond, Indiana -- the clerk pulled his own gun and shot at them. Patrick Harding gave the duo money from the cash register, but when one of the youths threatened to shoot him, Harding pulled his own pistol and fired a single shot, which sent them running. (The Palladium-Item, Richmond, IN, 11/21/91)

If you have had a firsthand “Armed Citizen” experience,
call NRA-ILA Grassroots at (800) 392-8683.

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