Path: tribune.usask.ca!decwrl!decwrl!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!network.ucsd.edu!galaxy!starbuck From: starbuck@galaxy.ucr.edu (starbuck) Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns,soc.women Subject: The Armed Citizen - Women's edition Message-ID: <35070@galaxy.ucr.edu> Date: 5 Aug 93 02:26:38 GMT Sender: news@galaxy.ucr.edu Followup-To: talk.politics.guns Organization: University of California, Riverside Lines: 44 Nntp-Posting-Host: galaxy Xref: tribune.usask.ca talk.politics.guns:61091 soc.women:67845 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From The Armed Citizen Column =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= American Rifileman 92/93 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Studies indicate that firearms are used over 1 million times a year for personal protection, and that presence of a firearm, without a shot being fired, prevents crime in many instances. Shooting usually can be justified only where crime constirutes an immediate, imminent threat to life or limb, or, in some cases, property. Anyone is free to quote or reproduce theses accounts. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Stocking a cooler in the store where she works, a Eufaula, Okla., woman was conforted by one of two men who entered the store. Turning, the woman, saw the second man behind her, his pants down. She threw a case of beer at the second man and ran to the counter, the duo in pursuit. Getting a pistol kept in a drawer, she drove the men from the premises without firing a shot. ( The News-Capital & Democrat, McAlester, Okla. 7/27/92 ) Sue Atkins had vowed not to be the victim of a robbery again, and made good on her promise when a robber walked into the Durham N.C. Western Union where she works, said he had a gun and demanded money. What he got was an arm wound from Atkins' pistol. He ran, but police caught up with him nearby. "The threat of a weapon is the same thing as armed robbery in North Carolina", said a police officer. ( The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. 9/10/92 ) 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, she screamed and alerted Mildred Steed, her mother and next door neighbor. Steed grabbed her .38 and fired sevral shots when she saw her daughter pinned to the ground, a knife to her throat. The shots mortally wounded the attacker. ( The Houston Country Courier, Livingston, Tex.m, 1/17/92 ) After successfully fighting off a would be rapist while walking her dog, a Murray, Utah, women, enraged over the incident, retrieved a pistol from her home and went hunting for the man. Finding him atttempting to hitch a ride on a local highway, she held him at gunpoint until a passing motorist summoned police. ( The tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah 8/6/92 ) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Protect your 2ed Amendment rights Join the NRA. For information call 1-800-922-4672. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Path: tribune.usask.ca!decwrl!decwrl!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!network.ucsd.edu!galaxy!starbuck From: starbuck@galaxy.ucr.edu (starbuck) Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns Subject: The Armed Citizen - Woman's Edition (cont) Message-ID: <35071@galaxy.ucr.edu> Date: 5 Aug 93 02:28:26 GMT References: <35070@galaxy.ucr.edu> Sender: news@galaxy.ucr.edu Organization: University of California, Riverside Lines: 57 Nntp-Posting-Host: galaxy =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From The Armed Citizen Column =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= American Rifileman 1993 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Studies indicate that firearms are used over 1 million times a year for personal protection, and that presence of a firearm, without a shot being fired, prevents crime in many instances. Shooting usually can be justified only where crime constirutes an immediate, imminent threat to life or limb, or, in some cases, property. Anyone is free to quote or reproduce theses accounts. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Raped at knifepoint in her home, an Edmonds, Washington, woman exacted revenge. Allowed by her attacker to go to the bathroom, instead she pulled a pistol from her purse. Firing several shots, she chased and cornered the sex offender in a dounstairs bedrooom and held him for police. Several weeks later the man pleaded guilty to eight rapes in a six-month period. ( The Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, WA, 5/14/93 ) Knowing the "protection" aforded her by a court restraining order was minimal at best, Viroqua Wisconsin, resident Lynn McMillen decided to back it up with a .357 magnum. When McMillen's ex-husband, accompanied by two companions, broke into the home where she was staying and thertened to kill her, she shot and wounded him and an accomplice. Saying McMillen's actions were in self- defense, the local district attorney added "In this case, the ones who were shot are not the victims." ( The Tribune, LaCrosse, WI, 3/12/93 ) Kim McCormack's opinion of Pheonix changed drastically after he and his fiancee became engaged in a rush hour gun battle that left his 14 month daughter wounded in the arm. Stopped for a traffic signal McCormack pulled his truck forward after another car stopped alongside and the occupants flashed a handgun. When they startd shooting, McCormack and fiancee Traci Updike pulled their own pistols and returned fire, driving their assailants away. "The city is not safe," McCormack said, "For us, our guns are like an American Express card. We never leave home without them." ( The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ, 4/8/93 ) Lillian Hazard wasn't kidding when she told an intruder in her Riverside, California home he should "lay down or I'll shoot you." Obviously thinking the 85 year old grandmother wouldn't shoot, the man tried to stand. Hazard shot him in the shoulder. "I wasn't scared, because I had my gun." said Hazard. Police confiscated her pistol but said she would not be charged. ( The Bee, Modesto, CA. 4/27/93 ) Alone in her Albuqquerque home one morning, Catherine Mobley armed herself with a handgun when a man intent on burglary brok through a sliding glass door, Mobley ordered the man to leave, but when he refused, she shot and killed him. "If it appears to be what it appears to be, this is not an open and shut," said the DA. "It's a shut and shut case." ( The Journal Albuquerque, NM, 5/12/93 ) starbuck =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Protect your 2ed Amendment rights Join the NRA. 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