On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:19:25 -0400, Dave Smith
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>> >Clearly, law abiding citizens do not need to carry a handgun for
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>> That statement....is ....breathtaking in its ignorance and scope.
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The Armed Citizen: Stories of self-defense | June 2 - June 10
Various | Various | Various
Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 9:36:32 AM by DaveLoneRanger
Teenaged Burglar Shot By Homeowner
GWINNETT COUNTY -- Police say a man shot and wounded a teenager he
found in his home – attempting to rob him.
Police say 27-year-old Ronald Ramsey arrived at his Lawrenceville home
Tuesday afternoon and found 17-year-old Alrazi Basher of Duluth
inside, robbing him. Officials say when Basher tried to flee the home,
Ramsey shot at Basher and hit him and his vehicle.
(More...)
Clerk fatally shoots robber at liquor store
A liquor store clerk shot and killed one of two armed men who tried to
rob the southwest Houston business Wednesday night, police said.
"Two suspects came in; only one came out," said Houston Police
Department investigator A. Taravello.
The men tried to rob the R-N-R Liquor store in the 10200 block of
Beechnut about 7:30 p.m. when gunfire erupted, police said.
The clerk was wounded in the leg.
His condition was not available Wednesday night, but Taravello said he
thought the injuries were not life-threatening.
"I am assuming guns were pulled on him. There are guns in there," the
investigator said.
The other gunman fled.
Burglar assaults Sampson woman, shot
AUTRYVILLE — A Dunn-area man who allegedly broke into a Sampson County
home and attempted to assault a woman at the residence was shot in the
leg by another man who was at the home at the time, according to
reports at the Sheriff’s Office.
The suspect in the burglary, Wesley Craig Hickman, 22, of 536
Clubhouse Drive, Dunn, the man who allegedly broke into the Carrolls
Store Road home is expected to be charged with first-degree burglary
in connection with the incident, authorities said.
Reports state that, just after 2 a.m. Saturday, a suspect barged into
366 Carrolls Store Road and attempted to assault Leslie Ann Skinner,
20, of Maxwell Road, Autryville, who was at the home at the time.
William McPhail, 20, of the Carrolls Store Road home, reportedly shot
Hickman in the left leg with a double-barrel shotgun, Sheriff’s Capt.
Julian Carr said.
“(Hickman) apparently kicked the door in at this residence,” said
Carr. “He was approached or confronted by William McPhail, of that
residence” just prior to the shooting, Carr said.
The captain said that Hickman was attempting to assault Skinner prior
to the shooting.
Following the incident, Hickman was taken to Sampson Regional Medical
Center, before being transported to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill,
where he was being treated for the injury.
Prowlers flee homeowner's bullets
A homeowner in Southwest Ranches said he was frightened by two
prowlers when he fired the first shot at them through a garage window.
About 2:45 a.m., a live-in housekeeper at a home in the 13400 block of
Old Sheridan Street heard noises and saw the men in the garage area
possibly trying to break into the garage or a 1995 Ferrari F512. She
alerted the homeowner.
While his wife was on the phone with Broward sheriff's deputies, he
got his Walther P99 semiautomatic pistol and entered the garage
through an interior door. Deputies dispatched on the call heard from
the dispatcher that shots had been fired.
They found seven spent shell casings on the front driveway, one inside
the garage and a bullet hole in the garage window. The homeowner said
he fired seven shots at the men before they jumped a fence into a
neighbor's yard.
One of the men wore a black ski hat, black shirt and black gloves. The
second wore a light-colored shirt.
A search of the area did not locate the prowlers and no blood was
found to indicate that either man had been hit.
Man killed after trying to force his way into 2 houses, say police
A man who tried to force his way into two houses on Friedland Church
Road was shot dead this morning, a spokesman for the Forsyth County
Sheriff's Office said today.
The sheriff's office is investigating the shooting and did not release
the names of anyone involved. Sheriff's officers were trying to obtain
search warrants this afternoon.
Sheriff's Capt. Brad Stanley said a man tried to force his way into
the front door of 2804 Friedland Church Road, where a woman who may
have been his former girlfriend lives. The man shot off the locks of
the front door with a shotgun and entered the house, he said.
Stanley said he was not sure whether the woman was alone in the house.
A car and two trucks sat in the driveway outside the house yesterday
afternoon.
The woman ran to a house next door at 2808 Friedland Church Road,
where a married couple lives, Stanley said. The man followed her and
shot off the lock of a side door of the neighbor's house. A man inside
the second house killed the attacker with a shotgun, Stanley said.
Authorities have yet to say whether the shooting was in self-defense.
"The homeowner was fearful of what was going on and shot and killed
him," Stanley said. The man who killed suffered a single gunshot wound
to the chest.
One dead, one hurt in shooting
Keith M. Morse was in the middle of his prayers and had just gotten to
"deliver us from evil," when he heard a knock on the door. Within
minutes, two men started beating Morse with sticks, and at the end of
the struggle, a man Morse had never met before was dead on the front
porch from several gunshot wounds, while Morse's brother-in-law was at
the hospital being treated for a gunshot wound.
[Snip]
"He started thumping on me and another guy jumped out with a stick and
broke it on me," Morse said in an interview with The Bulletin Monday
afternoon. "I fell, grabbed my gun, fumbled with it and shot. They
were going to kill me."
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Teen, 77-Year-Old Exchange Gunfire
Police report a 77-year-old man and one of the teens that tried to rob
him are both recovering from gunshot wounds early Tuesday.
Officers tell Action News that the man was approached by 2 teens in
the area of Righter Street and Dawson Street in Manayunk around 12:30
a.m.
When two juvenile suspects tried to rob the man at gunpoint, their
intended target pulled out his own gun and shot one of the teens in
the hand. The 77-year-old victim was also shot hand. He was taken to
Roxborough Hospital. The 16-year-old suspect was treated at Jefferson
Hospital.
The other juvenile fled the scene, according to police.
The teen that is in custody will be charged with robbery and other
charges. Police say no charges have been filed against the elderly
victim. [DaveLoneRanger's note: He WASN'T a victim. He refused to be.]
Man stops would-be robber - Robber held at gunpoint until police
arrive
A man is behind bars after breaking into a Flint home. Monday
afternoon police credited the homeowner for helping them catch the
would-be burglar.
It all happened Monday morning at a home in the 5600 Block of Fleming
Road north of Pierson Road on Flint's north side.
It all happened early Monday when the man living at the home pulled a
gun on the guy. It started when the man living there told police he
heard someone trying to break in the back of his home.
The guy got in a basement window and made his way upstairs. But not
before waking up the man sleeping inside the house. He grabbed a gun
and confronted the burglar face to face.
He held the would-be burglar for 10 minutes, forcing the man to lie on
his belly while he called 911. Police showed up and quickly arrested
the man.
Neighbors living nearby say they saw the would-be burglar but didn't
think of it as suspicious until police showed up.
No one was hurt in all of this. At last check the man arrested is in
jail.
Fighting back - Beaten 81-year-old fires shots; two wounded men
arrested
James E. Wilson pulled up his white T-shirt and displayed an 8-inch
long scar down his mid-section, a memento from a knifing when his
store was robbed in 1994.
He was luckier in 2002, when a man tried to rob him at 23rd and Market
Street while Wilson was on the way to the bank. Wilson pulled out a
pistol, fired and missed the fleeing robber.
And when robbers tried to turn him into a victim a third time Tuesday
afternoon, Wilson turned the tables.
After being pistol-whipped at least twice in the head, the 81-year-old
grandfather of 14 pulled his pistol from his pocket and fired at his
attackers, hitting two of them as they fled.
"I was just doing what I had to do," said Wilson, who said he has a
permit to carry the gun. "I was trying to protect myself."
[DaveLoneRanger's Note: Another repeat-defender!]
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Worker's shot scares off robbers
A store employee pulled out a revolver and fired what he termed a
warning shot at would-be robbers who entered a gold exchange shop
Tuesday.
"You come in with a gun, you're going to run out with a bullet," owner
Tony Sasson said.
Two males, ages about 18 to 20, entered New York Gold Exchange, Eighth
and Main streets, about 5:45 p.m. One pulled out a gun and they
threatened to rob the store, Sasson said. Employee Adam Tee fired
back.
"They were in self-defense mode. In the midst of the robbery, (the
employee) went in the back room and got a gun," Cincinnati Police Lt.
Mike Neville said.
Tee said he fired one shot at the wall to scare the robbers off. They
fled without property or money. They were seen on foot going east on
Eighth Street and down an alley.
(More...)
Police: Would-Be Victim Pulls Gun, Shoots Robber
An alleged robber got quite a shock from his victim, who pulled a gun
on him and opened fire.
It happened in Philadelphia's Logan Square Tuesday.
Police said Luther Cook, 42, pretended to have a weapon and attempted
to rob the victim.
But the victim actually had a gun and shot Cook, NBC 10 reported.
Cook is listed in stable condition and faces several charges in the
incident.
Police have not released the name of the shooter, but said he will not
be charged since he acted in self-defense.
Farrow Rd. shooting injures suspect
(Richland) June 6, 2006 - Richland County deputies are searching for
two robbers. They believe one of the teens should be easy to spot.
He's got a gun shot to the leg.
How did the suspect end up shot? Jerome McFadden, a father and store
owner, is also now a hero, "You got to do what you got to do, and
because of my son I put my life on the line here today."
Deputies say two teenagers held up Jerome's Fresh Meat and Produce
Market on Farrow Road in Columbia. The owner wasn't there alone, his
12-year-old son was working with him.
Mcfadden says, "They told me if we called the police they would shoot
all of us come back and kill us."
Defending his store, but more importantly, his son, McFadden fired two
shots, hitting one robber in the leg. "I said you can do what you
want, just don't hurt my son. They didn't hurt us. They took
everything in the store except nickles and pennies."
(More...)
Victoria man thwarts former employee's attack
A 58-year-old Victoria man was able to thwart an intruder early Friday
morning by slapping him across the face with a pistol he had grabbed
for protection.
Ultimately, a 36-year-old man, listed as a transient, was arrested by
police on suspicion of burglary of a habitation, according to an
arrest report.
Officers were called to the home in the 4600 block of Lilac Lane after
the resident called 911 reporting someone had kicked in the door to
his home.
It was about 3 a.m. when the man told police that he heard a loud
noise and grabbed his .22-caliber pistol.
Walking toward the front door he saw the shadow of a person in the
doorway, the man told officers.
When the intruder spoke, the resident recognized his voice as a former
employee.
The man came at the resident, hitting him in the chest. The resident
then hit the man across the face with his pistol and the attacker
fled.
Only a couple of blocks away, a clerk called 911, reporting that
someone had walked into a convenience store with blood on his face but
had left.
The officer eventually found the man after seeing his shadow ducking
behind a building in the 600 block of Mockingbird Lane.
The man would later tell police that he had gone to his former
employer's home to beat him up over a personal matter.
"[L]iberals are afraid to state what they truly believe in, for to do so
would result in even less votes than they currently receive. Their
methodology is to lie about their real agenda in the hopes of regaining
power, at which point they will do whatever they damn well please. The
problem is they have concealed and obfuscated for so long that, as a group,
they themselves are no longer sure of their goals. They are a collection of
wild-eyed splinter groups, all holding a grab-bag of dreams and wishes. Some
want a Socialist, secular-humanist state, others the repeal of the Second
Amendment. Some want same ./different species marriage, others want voting
rights for trees, fish, coal and bugs. Some want cradle to grave care and
complete subservience to the government nanny state, others want a culture
that walks in lockstep and speaks only with intonations of political
correctness. I view the American liberals in much the same way I view the
competing factions of Islamic
fundamentalists. The latter hate each other to the core, and only join
forces to attack the US or Israel. The former hate themselves to the core,
and only join forces to attack George Bush and conservatives." --Ron Marr |