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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
May, 1993

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

Darren Yakunovich didn't expect to be holding a rifle on a friend, but that's how it worked out when the 17-year-old Kipton, Ohio, youth stayed home from school to catch a burglar who had hit his parent's home several times previously. When the erstwhile friend walked into an upstairs bedroom, Yakunovich held him at gunpoint until police arrived. (The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria, Ohio 03/04/93)

A slow afternoon suddenly turned exciting for Omaha, Nebr., bar owner Maurice Howard when a masked man entered and announced a robbery. Howard initially complied with the man's demands for money, but then the crook's attention was diverted, Howard went for his gun. Neither was hit in the ensuing exchange of shots, but the robber fled empty handed. (The World-Herald, Omaha, Nebr., 12/09/92)

A would-be burglar made a fatal mistake when he took an empty driveway to mean that Jeff Armstrong was at work. Armstrong, of Memphis, Tenn., had lent his car to a coworker and, when he heard glass shattering at 6 a.m., grabbed his pistol. Finding a man had punched his arm through his front door and was trying to unlatch it, Armstrong ordered him to stop. When the intruder persisted, the homeowner killed him with a single shot. Police said the slain man had a criminal history and no fixed address. (The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., 01/12/93)

Two would-be robbers didn't get what they expected when they pulled a knife on a man in the parking lot of an Exton, Pa., grocery store and demanded his money. "I don't think so," replied the man, who then pulled a licensed handgun, prompting the pair to beat a hasty retreat. (The Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pa., 02/25/93)

A Canyon Lake, Calif., man owes his good health to his handgun, not for protecting him from criminal attack, but for allowing him to shoot his way out of a disabled car after it was swept into Canyon Lake. When raging flood waters shorted out the electrical system and prevented him from opening the window, the man shot out the window and swam to safety. (The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif., 01/18/93)

Counting on cut phone lines to aid their burglary attempt, two men didn't count on Dyersburg, Tenn., World War II veteran J.D. Troutt having a shotgun. Awakened by breaking glass at 2:30 a.m., Troutt grabbed his 12-ga. and waited. When one man appeared, Troutt held him at gunpoint, but when the second tried to get in, he fired a blast through the window, putting him to flight. Troutt's wife ran next door and phoned police, who arrested the pair. (The State Gazette, Dyersburg, Tenn., 01/08/93)

Hearing the unmistakable sounds of a door being kicked in at his Hope Mills, N.C., home early one morning, Hal Edwards grabbed his gun and went to investigate. Edwards found the intruder in his sleeping daughter's bedroom, and, after being fired upon, shot the criminal twice in the chest, killing him. (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., 02/24/93)

The fact that he was recovering from a stab wound suffered in an assault the day before didn't keep Roderick McGill from preventing a rape outside his Buffalo, N.Y., home. Hearing the gagged woman's cries, McGill had his girlfriend call police and grabbed his shotgun. Outside, he confronted the would-be rapist as he attempted to strip his victim and held him for police. (The News, Buffalo, N.Y., 01/25/93)

"I told him he'd picked the wrong night," said Kyle Wagstaff of the knife-wielding robber he apprehended outside the Salt Lake City, Utah, store where his fiancée works. In the store when a man walked in, pulled a knife and demanded money, he retreated outside to get a shotgun from his truck. When the robber, clutching a handful of money, walked from the store, Wagstaff trained the shotgun on him and held him for police. (The Desert News, Salt Lake City, Utah, 01/31/93)

When a Kennard, Tex., woman stopped by her house on an errand, she was assaulted by a man she found burglarizing the residence. Managing to get outside the house, the woman screamed and alerted Mildred Steed, her mother and next door neighbor. Steed grabbed her .38 and fired several shots when she saw her daughter pinned to the ground, a knife to her throat. The shots mortally wounded the attacker. (The Houston County Courier, Livingston, Tex., 01/17/93)

"I guess he shouldn't have forgot about me," was Larry Quebodeaux's comment on the armed robber who came through the back door of the Beaumont., Tex., restaurant Quebodeaux manages. As the thug demanded money, Quebodeaux slipped into the office, got a pistol and waited in front of the business. When the man started herding everyone into the kitchen, Quebodeaux started firing. The robber was wounded five times and driven from the business. (The Enterprise, Beaumont, Tex., 11/13/92)

A Ft. Myers, Fla., woman had just risen to feed her baby when a robber broke down her front door with a wooden pole. Her husband grabbed a pistol and confronted the intruder, inviting him to wait for police, which he did. (The News-Press, Ft. Myers, Fla., 01/16/93)

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