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 THE ARMED CITIZEN  July 97

 A bandit claiming to be armed strolled into a Frederick, Maryland,
 liquor store and attempted to rob a lone female cashier. Undaunted,
 the clerk reached for her own gun and pointed it at the suspect. No
 shots were required to send the man dashing from the store. Witnesses
 called police, who apprehended the criminal within blocks of the
 crime scene. (The News-Post, Frederick, MD, 3/11/97)

  With her spouse struggling with a man they had caught breaking into
  their car, a St. Louis, Missouri, woman ran back into her home,
  called 911 and got a.38-cal. handgun. Meanwhile, the burglar
  produced a box-cutter and proceeded to slash the husband several
  times before the woman returned and loosed a fatal shot at the
  attacker. 
(The PostDispatch, St. Louis, MO, 3/15/97)

 An errant eight-point buck crashed through the window of a busy
 Brandon, Mississippi, clinic, scattering patients and staff. Panicked
 and confused, the whitetail trashed a couple of exam rooms and kicked
 a hole in a wall. When it became apparent there was no way to get the
 deer settled down, a doctor retrieved a gun from his car and put the
 animal down before anybody was hurt. 
(The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MS, 3/6/97)

 After hearing a late-night knock at the door of his Wichita, Kansas,
 home, Harvey Green went to investigate with his Smith & Wesson .357
 revolver in hand. It was a good thing, too, as a pair of men asked to
 use the phone, then brandished a rifle and attempted to force their
 way inside after Green politely refused their request. "I fired one
 shot through the glass of the front door, and I hit one of them,"
 Green said. The suspects fled and a wounded 18-year-old male was
 later admitted to an area hospital, where police apprehended him.
 Green, a champion pistol shot with a house full of trophies to prove
 it, said, "I could have finished him pretty easily. I still had five
 rounds left. But he was running away. I no longer considered him a
 threat. Guns sometimes save people's lives." (The Eagle, Wichita, KS,
 4/26/97)

 Two robbers picked the wrong house when they entered a Newport News,
 Virginia, residence. After hearing a commotion outside his bedroom
 door, a 20year-old man readied himself with his .22 rifle for a
 confrontation. When his door was kicked down by an armed and masked
 man, he shot the intruder, The crook's accomplice fled. The two men
 had robbed the man's roommate of cash and ransacked his room. (The
 Daily Press, Newport News, VA 4/3/97)

  Ruth Gray, 86, of Augusta, Georgia, came in from her backyard to
  find her home being ransacked. She crept to where she kept her .38
  handgun and began looking for the intruder. "He thought he was going
  to get out the back door ... but I locked it." She shot the would-be
  burglar in the hand and he fled the home. He was apprehended a month
  later by police. At the crook's hearing, the judge said to the
  woman, "I hope when I'm 86 I can shoot as well as you can." 
(The Chronicle, Augusta, GA 11/2/96)

 Three masked men entered a Moulton, Alabama, home in an attempt to
 rob the family living there. After one of the intruders placed a
 pistol to the head of a man in the house, a female resident said she
 needed to go into a back room to get her baby. Instead, she returned
 with a pistol and began firing at the intruders. Two of the men fled,
 while the third was held for police. One suspect turned himself in.
 The third was still at large, but police knew his identity and an
 arrest was expected. All of the bandits had criminal histories,
 including one who was awaiting trial for rape at the time ofthe home
 invasion. (The Daily, Decatur, AL, 4/21/97)

 After hearing his back door being kicked in, Michael Carter, of
 Kansas City, Missouri, grabbed his gun. Confronted by an invader, he
 pleaded with the man to leave. Instead, the intruder charged, forcing
 Carter to fatally shoot him in the chest. The break-in was the second
 for Carter in less than a week. Police said of the incident, "You
 have [here] a perfect example of the appropriate use of a firearm in
 the home." 
(The Star, Kansas City, MO, 4/10/97)

 Herbert Reese, 65, of Montgomery, Alabama, knows the value of having
 a firearm for personal protection. He owns a convenience store that
 has been robbed six times since 1989. The last robbery proved fatal
 for the thug. After closing his shop, Reese, a concealed-carry permit
 holder, was approached by the young crook, who displayed a pistol and
 demanded his wallet. Reese complied, but then drew his .38
 revolverand shot the robber dead. In four of the previous incidents,
 a firearm had been used to prevent a robbery, and Reese has never
 been charged for defending himself. "You would have thought people
 would know not to rob around here by now," he said. 
(The Advertiser, Montgomery, AL, 3/18/97)

 Car thieves are rarely caught in the act, but that was not the case
 for an alleged thief who tried to take Jesse Ramierez's car.
 Ramierez, of San Antonio, Texas, awoke to frnd his car being
 hot-wired early one morning. He grabbed his 9 mm Beretta pistol and
 dashed outside to pursue the fleeing suspect in another vehicle.
 After a brief chase, Ramierez appre hended the suspect and held him
 for police. Police said Ramierez will not be charged. 
(The Express News, San Antonio, TX, 4/10/97)

 An alert postman in rural Reno County, Kansas, rounded up a posse of
 sorts after witnessing a suspicious vehicle cruising up the driveway
 of a home where he knew the owners were away. The postal worker and
 four armed, local residents returned to the home to find it being
 burglarized by two men. They ordered the pair to lie on the ground
 and alerted sheriff's deputies, who soon arrived on the scene. 
(The Eagle, Wichita, KS, 1/1/97)