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From:
The American Rifleman
July, 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

Shannon Davis’s visit to Aaron D. Lee and his mother at their Yakima, Washington, home was abruptly cut short by a threatening phone call from her abusive ex-boyfriend, James Leo Armato. Soon afterward, Armato — who had been furloughed from jail only hours before — arrived at the house bent on causing as much mayhem possible. He threw Davis down the porch steps, then went inside where his rampage was halted when Lee fired once from a small-caliber rifle. Armato died at the scene. (Yakima Herald-Republic, Yakima,WA, 1/18/98)

Seventy-eight-year-old Mattie Lou Sherman was prepared when she set out one Friday night to investigate a loud noise at the back door of her house. Before she could get that far she met a man, already inside, advancing toward her. According to police, she fired five times from her .38-cal. handgun, sending the man fleeing. Later, officers found the intruder near a local elementary school with wounds to the head, neck and shoulder. They said he would face first-degree burglary charges. (Greensboro News & Record, Greensboro, NC, 4/28/98)

A 24-year-old man was inside his Camp Springs, Maryland, home with his eight-month-old son in the early afternoon when he heard his front door being kicked in. The resident grabbed a handgun and ran downstairs where he was charged by an intruder. The father fired several times, hitting the robber in the upper body, killing him. "We’re assuming the motive was burglary, but he didn’t get a chance to take anything," said a police spokesman. (The Washington Post, Washington, DC, 2/7/98)

When two men knocked on the front door of David L. Skirvin’s home in Michigan’s Ada Township to ask for help with car trouble, Skirvin didn’t even make it to the telephone before the men began to struggle with him, ultimately shooting him twice in the head, according to sheriff’s officials. Skirvin, whose sister-in-law described him as "the type to not back down from people and take any guff," was able to run upstairs and grab a rifle. He exchanged gunfire with the thugs, sending them fleeing. (Grand Rapids Press, Grand Rapids, MI, 2/5/98)

In a vicious attack, a 100-pound Japanese Akita knocked down Ellen Justice in front of her home in Plymouth, Massachusetts, when she attempted to collect her mail. As the dog tore at Justice’s limbs, several neighbors tried to intervene. That’s when Vincent Mallozzi, the brother of the dog’s owner, shot the animal with a 20-ga. shotgun. Remarkably, though, it continued its rampage, attacking a police officer who had arrived to pursue it. Patrolman Kenneth Rood eventually fired nine rounds from his .40 cal. handgun before the dog fell dead. Rood and Justice were both treated at a nearby hospital. Police said Mallozzi did the right thing. (The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, MA, 3/27/98)

As nurse Jim Shaver, 49 walked to his job early one morning in Eugene, Oregon, two men, ages 19 and 20, knocked him to the ground and began beating him in an apparent robbery attempt. Shaver, who was legally licensed to carry his .22-cal. revolver, twice warned the thugs that he was armed. Undissuaded, they continued the assault. That’s when Shaver fired several shots, wounding the younger assailant and sending both men running. "I was in a position where I had to defend myself," Shaver said. (The Register-Guard, Eugene, OR 3/11/98)

Revelyn Williams reacted quickly after hearing suspicious noises in her East Memphis, Tennessee, home by hiding her six-year-old grandson and then arming herself with her husband’s .22 cal. handgun. She confronted two intruders in a bedroom as they removed stereo equipment, ordering them to leave. Said police Maj. Larry Young, "[One man] started coming at her, and she shot him several times." He was caught by police soon after and taken to an area hospital in critical condition. The accomplice fled the scene. (The Commercial Appeal Memphis, TN 2/5/98)

George Waters offered up the performance of his life after two armed, masked youths entered the Taylor Mill, Ohio pawn shop where he worked an demanded money. Waters faked a heart attack, clutching his chest and falling to the floor in order to activate an alarm. But one of the gunmen began to suspect he’d been had, so Waters repeated the performance. This time, when he stood back up, he had a .45-cal. pistol in hand. He shot both masked bandits, wounding on critically. (The Cincinnati Inquirer, Cincinnati, OH, 4/10/98)

Appraiser Clark Wheeler, 41, heard breaking glass shortly after midnight while working alone in his downtown Bozeman, Montana, office. He grabbed his .357 cal. handgun and walked down the hall to investigate. Wheeler surprise’ a man who had picked up a compute monitor and "encouraged him to leave by yelling and firing a shot. The man fled Wheeler later said he has no plans to stop working late. (Bozeman Daily Chronicle Bozeman, MT, 4/13/98)

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