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The American Rifleman, March 1995
THE ARMED CITIZEN
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.
Even after Korean-born Joseph Choi told the armed
robber to take whatever he wanted, the intruder forced the
shopkeeper to his hands and knees and threatened to kill
him. When the robber locked the door to his Spokane,
Washington, watch repair shop, Choi made a decision. "I had
to take a chance. I die or he die. I'm not lucky, I die,"
said Choi, who grabbed the man's wrist, attempting to wrench
the gun loose. During the ensuing struggle, Choi reached his
own handgun and was able to unleash three shots. Two were on
target, fatally wounding the robber, who authorities said
had an extensive criminal record. (The Spokesman-Review,
Spokane, WA, 12/16/94)
State and local law enforcement officials praised Elva,
Kentucky, resident Anthony Sexton, his brother, and two
cousins after they captured four men being sought in a
manhunt after burglarizing a nearby home. Sexton came upon
two of the wanted men on a road and confronted them. His
relatives found two more suspects hiding in the woods. When
one of the criminals attempted to pull a stolen .357 Mag.,
it became entangled in the lining of his jacket--a fortunate
thing for the criminal. "He doesn't know how close he came
to getting killed right there," said Sexton, who had a gun
of his own. The criminals were held at gunpoint until police
could arrive. (The Sun, Paducah, KY, 11/2/94)
Rebecca Griffin awoke to the screams of her daughter,
who was being bound and gagged by two kidnappers in her
Washington, D.C., home. She confronted the men, one of whom
was carrying knife, and brought the attack to a quick halt
when she was able to break free and retrieve a .32 cal.
revolver from the basement, shooting the knife-wielder four
times. The other suspect fled. Griffin and one daughter were
slashed during the attack. Some news accounts made no
mention that the handgun that saved the Griffins is illegal
in the District. (The Times, Washington, D.C., 12/14/94)
Rochester, New York, market owner Ali Amireh still
carries a bullet lodged next to his heart after being shot
in the chest during a 1992 armed robbery. He was not about
to take another one. When two criminals walked into his
store and opened fire on Amireh, he drew his own legally
owned .38 and shot back. The armed robber was struck once,
while the other suspect fled. The incident was the third in
Rochester that month where citizens defended themselves.
Just two weeks earlier, a restaurant owner shot a bandit
during an attempted robbery. In another incident, two city
employees being held up in a parking lot pulled their
legally carried firearms and shot and killed their
assailant. No charges were filed against the crime victims
in any of those incidents. (Times-Union, Rochester, NY,
12/20/94)
Jimmy Kirkpatrick thought it might be friends knocking
at the door of his Dallas, Texas, apartment at 2 a.m.
Instead, the 26-year-old Army reservist found himself
looking down the barrel of a rifle held by one of two
strangers. Kirkpatrick, who usually answers the door with a
pistol behind his back because his door doesn't have a
peephole, stepped quickly to the side as a shot went past
him. He then fired a single mortal shot into one man. The
surviving intruder told police the two had gone to
Kirkpatrick's apartment to rob him. Police said Kirkpatrick
was justified for shooting his attacker. (The Morning News,
Dallas, TX, 12/19/94)
When Lake Los Angeles, California, resident Alfred Abel
saw his girlfriend being brutally beaten by her former
landlord, he did the only thing he could to stop the attack.
Partially paralyzed on his right side, Abel managed to grab
his .45 semi- auto pistol. After shouting a warning, Abel
fired a single shot at the aggressor, striking him in the
abdomen and killing him. Prosecutors refused to file charges
against Abel, saying he came to the defense of his
girlfriend. (Times, Los Angeles, CA 11/5/94)
Two long criminal careers ended in a hail of gunfire in
a Richmond, Virginia, jewelry store. The robbers, aged 56
and 71, were masked and armed as they burst into the store,
but owner Gary Baker and his five employees already had
revolvers and shotguns in hand. More than 30 shots were
fired in a firefight that killed both criminals. Other than
a shotgun pellet to Baker's hand, the jewelers were
unscathed. (Times-Dispatch, Richmond, VA 12/6/94)
Housebreakers had entered Lillie Mae Ponder's Orlando,
Florida, home twice in less then a week, so she grabbed her
..38 Spl. when she heard noises from her 77-year-old
husband's bedroom. There she found a criminal spraying
wheelchair bound Paul Ponder with Mace. Though he turned the
irritant on her, too, she was able to fire, killing her
attacker. Police said the shooting was justified. (The
Sentinel, Orlando, FL 12/8/94)
What police called "fatal attraction" cost a
15-year-old boy his life. Obsessed with a neighborhood
woman, he allegedly broke into her Broken Bow, Oklahoma,
home three times in a week, once raping the mother of two at
knife-point. But when he entered the home the final time
carrying a stolen handgun, a pair of handcuffs and a ski
mask, the youth encountered two armed men guarding the home
in the family's absence. Police said the unidentified
citizen who killed the alleged rapist "had no choice."
(Gazette Texarkana, TX 11/3/94)
Suspicious after it seemed a "customer" was casing his
isolated Woodson, Arkansas, store, Sherman Waldern, 72
reached behind the meat counter for a .357 Mag. while his
wife went to lock the store's door. But before she could
secure it, three robbers--one armed with a shotgun--burst
in. Waldern shot and killed the shotgun wielder as his
fellow criminals fled the scene. Police soon identified two
other men as suspects. (Democrat Gazette, Little Rock, AR
12/2/94)
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