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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
August, 1996

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

When the madman heard 76-year-old Elmer Virgil Fry yell for him to stop smashing a window on Fry's truck with a machete, the brute charged the Fresno, California, resident's home and smashed a window trying to enter. Fry grabbed a .38 revolver and fired two shots, wounding the suspect and forcing him to flee. Police later captured the criminal. (The Bee, Fresno, CA, 3/11/96)

At the sound of somebody breaking into her home, a "petite" Ausable Township, Michigan, woman jumped from her bathtub, wrapped herself in a towel, and grabbed a Winchester .30-30 rifle. Jeanie Shell soon came face to face with a 220-lb. 6-ft. 2" intruder who she recognized as a neighbor, while a second suspect fled. Shell ordered the housebreaker to leave and called police, who later arrested both suspects and discovered they were responsible for another nearby burglary earlier that morning. (The News Herald and Press, Mikado, MI, 3/20/96)

Lee Fleurcius and companion Ruby Montgomery had been in Fleurcius' Orange County, Florida, home for just a few moments when a burglar, who had been surprised by the returning pair, leapt from a bedroom closet and began shooting. Though both Fleurcius and Montgomery were wounded by their assailant's shots, the homeowner was able to retrieve a gun and return deadly fire. (The Sentinel, Orlando, FL, 3/1 1/96)

"I'm an old man; I have to take care of myself," Gary, Indiana, resident Miller Doty said. Doty keeps his .357 a little closer at hand now after a pair of teenaged home-breakers attacked him in his home. One of the thugs had pinned the 72-year-old Doty to the floor and was trying to choke him when the homeowner's 54-year-old daughter, alarmed by the commotion, came upstairs with her .22 in hand. Doty's daughter fatally shot one suspect and sent the other diving out a window with a volley of shots. (The Times, Lake County, IN, 4/1/96)

"Hang up the phone, I'm going to shoot you." Milford, Connecticut, pawn store owner Rocco Candella looked up and saw a robber pointing a gun at him. Candella laid the cordless phone on the store counter and, in a flash, grabbed his .380 Walther PPK and fired three shots. The criminal found himself lying on the floor in his own blood before he could harm Candella or any of the other three people in the store. (The Post, Milford, CT, 3/14/96)

Awakened by his wife who said there was an intruder in their home, a Lincoln, Nebraska, man grabbed his .380 and went to investigate, finding not one, but three intruders in their house. One was unplugging a computer, one disconnecting a stereo and the third had just entered the house from the garage with the family's car keys in hand, when the armed homeowner yelled at them. Frightened, the three men dropped everything and fled, escaping in a nearby vehicle. (The Journal, Lincoln, NE, 3/29/96)

A quartet of prison escapees made it out of Huttonsville Correctional Center near Mill Creek, West Virginia, all right, but their luck turned bad when their getaway driver, in a car loaded with beer and whiskey, was stopped by police and arrested before she could meet them. The criminals decided to attempt a foot escape through mountains where, as one deputy put it, the residents have guns in their homes and know how to use them. When two emerged from the cold, rainy woods, they ran into armed citizen Vencil Hannah. Aware the convicts might be in the area, Hannah grabbed his .22 rifle when he heard his dog bark, and confronted the pair. Hannah's next door neighbor, a deputy, was quickly summoned to the scene to take the prisoners back into custody. (The Register- Herald, Beckley, WV,5/13/96)

Four knife-wielding men stole into Kuang Cheng's Lumberton, New Jersey, home, forcing his two young sons and their grandmother into the family room. As two of the intruders attempted to tape the elderly woman's mouth shut, the other two confronted Cheng and his wife in their bedroom. The homeowner, however, had heard his children screaming and had retrieved a .40 cal. pistol, the sight of which inspired one of the assailants to dive out of the second-floor window and the other to flee downstairs. Firing three times at the criminals, suspects in at least six similar incidents, Cheng single-handedly chased all of the men from his house. (The Times,Trenton, NJ, 3/22/96)

Great Falls, Montana, resident Earl Burrows returned home to find his driveway blocked by a vehicle. Burrows went into his home, retrieved a shotgun, and confronted the man, who was burglarizing his garage. The crook is suspected of breaking into more than 20 garages in the neighborhood that evening before running into Burrows. (The Tribune, Great Falls, MT, 3/18/96)

Darlene Loudon was sitting in a Des Moines, Iowa, dentist's office waiting room when a man approached her, drew an 8" knife from a bag, and told her he would not harm her if she gave him her purse. Despite the knife, she refused,and after a brief struggle, the man snatched the handbag away from her and began to leave. Loudon's husband, a carry permit holder, witnessed the commotion, unstrapped his .22, and followed the man outside, shooting him once in the side before the suspect ran off. (The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IA, 4/20/96)

What's the price of nine dollars and a pizza in St. Louis, Missouri? It cost one criminal his life and sent another to a hospital after the pair tried to rob pizza deliveryman Tom Wilkins. Wilkins, who first struggled with his assailants at the beginning of the robbery, relented after one placed the barrel of a gun to the side of his face. As they fled with the pizza and cash, however, they turned around and fired at their victim, at which time he pulled out his own .357 Mag.and opened up. (The Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, MO, 4/30/96)

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