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 THE ARMED CITIZEN  March 97

 The drunken man asked the clerk in an Anchorage, Alaska, gas station
 to call him a cab, then in a fit of agitation at being asked to wait
 for it outside, pulled a gun and attempted to rob the place. Alerted
 by the clerk, two mechanics, one of them armed ~ith a gun he keeps in
 his tool box, followed the man outside where the three became mired
 in a standoff. Upon arriving on the scene, the cab driver discovered
 what was happening, drew his own gun and shoved it into the robber's
 neck. The armed mechanic and cabbie then forced the suspect to the
 ground where he was held for police. 
(The Daily News, Anchorage, AK, 10/26/96)

 Without warning, the man walked into the Boomtown Grocery in
 Haughton, Louisiana, and pointed a gun at the owner and her sister.
 He told the two women if they refused to give him all of the store's
 money, he would kill them. Undaunted, the shopkeeper produced a .357
 Mag. and unleashed at least five shots. Hit, the assailant returned
 fire as he crawled from the store. The owner was grazed by a bullet,
 but her attacker suffered much worse. He had nothing to show for his
 criminal efforts but a critical bullet wound to his shoulder and a
 list of charges--including two counts of attempted murder--from
 police who quickly arrested the man and his accomplice. 
(The Times, Shreveport, LA, 9/30/96)

 Bandits accosted Greenville, South Carolina, store owner Gene
 Stephens outside his home and ordered him back inside where they
 forced Stephens and his wife to lay face-down on the kitchen floor.
 As one robber searched the house, the other two stood over the
 fearful couple pointing a gun at them. When one of the suspects
 turned the lights out, Stephens glanced up and noticed the
 gun-wielding crook had been distracted. He pulled his gun from his
 waistband and fired a "literal shot in the dark." The suspects fled,
 one of them eventually turning up in a hospital, where he died. The
 dead man's brother was later arrested as an accomplice. Police
 believe the group may be linked to the ambush murder of another city
 businessman three weeks earlier. 
(The News, Greenville, SC, 9/1/96)

 Jose Garza was going to retrieve some ice cream from his Sylmar,
 California, garage at the request of his wife when he noticed his
 three dogs barking. As a precaution, he took along his .45 cal.
 pistol. Upon entering the garage, a disguised woman--who police later
 speculated had probably never fired a gun before-loosed three shots,
 missing the veteran city prosecutor each time. Garza returned fire,
 killing his attacker. He later learned that the dead suspect was his
 wife's sister, who, it turned out, had conspired with his wife, a
 lawyer, to kill him in order to "become financially free."
(The Times, Los Angeles, CA, 10/3/96)

 Gunshots erupted in the evening tranquility of the Colorado Springs,
 Colorado, neighborhood after an argument over a football debt turned
 violent, leaving two men wounded. From opposite ends of the street,
 two armed homeowners, insurance salesman Vaughn Zimmerman and cable
 company manager Tony McIntosh, ran from their homes and
 simultaneously confronted the shooting suspect, ordering him to the
 ground. There they handcuffed him and held him for police officers.
 McIntosh, a carry permit holder, and Zimmerman, a former sheriff's
 deputy, had never met until the incident. "I think we should go for
 coffee sometime and talk:' Zimmerman told McIntosh afterward. (The
 Gazette TeleRraph, Colorado Springs, CO, 10/2/96)

 Demanding money, the attacker chased Rosemary Campi inside her
 Indianapolis, Indiana, home where he confronted her husband, dentist
 James Campi. A fight ensued in which the suspect broke a table leg
 free and began beating James Campi. Despite assistance from a
 neighbor, the struggle continued, during which Campi's wife was able
 to get him the gun he finally used to fatally shoot the invader. 
(The Sunday Star, Indianapolis, IN, 9/29/96)

 When a would-be robber grabbed a customer in an Asheville, North
 Carolina, store and threatened to kill her if employees did not turn
 over the money in the register, clerks Joey Alien and Larry Simonds
 reacted instinctively. In one motion, they both drew handguns and
 ordered the assailant to release the woman and lay on the floor.
 Surprised at the turn of events, the suspect did just that. 
(The Citizen-Times, Asheville, NC, 12/14/96)

 As social unrest spilled across St. Petersburg, Florida, making
 headlines throughout the nation, criminals rampaged through the
 community looting businesses and burning them to the ground. While
 most store owners were left to sit helplessly, waiting on the
 overburdened police and fire departments to come to their rescue,
 pawn shop owner Oscar Kiesylis, "a staunch NRA member:' stood ready.
 "I could have waited until the bastards came in the store and got
 them one by one:' Kiesylis later said of the looters who crashed
 their car through his store window. Instead he opened fire with his
 semi-automatic AK-47 rifle as soon as the vehicle entered the
 building, sending the intruders on a hasty--and
 empty-handed--retreat. "They came very close to being with the Lord
 :' said Kiesylis. 
(The Times, St. Petersburg, Fit, 10/26/96)

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, city councilman Richard Mariano was
 winding up his midnight town watch shift when he noticed a strange
 man walking in his neighborhood. When next he spied the man sitting
 behind the steering wheel of a neighbor's van, he confronted the
 would-be car thief. Mariano used a few Tae Kwon Do moves to subdue
 the angered suspect and then held him with his .380 Smith & Wesson as
 a fellow town watch neighbor called police. The newspaper article
 said Mariano is "one of three city councilmen who are licenced to
 carry arms. You know, the sort of fellas you don't want to mess with,
 especially on a dark street in the middle of the night." 
(The Daily News, Philadelphia, PA, 12/16/96) ~RP