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Subject: Armed Citizen - Nov. '93
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THE ARMED CITIZEN
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Studies indicate that firearms are used over 1 million times a
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year for personal protection, and that presence of a firearm,
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without a shot being fired, prevents crime in many instances.
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Shooting usually can be justified only where crime constitutes an
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immediate, imminent threat to life or limb, or, in some cases,
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property. Anyone is free to quote or reproduce these accounts.
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Send clippings to: "The Armed Citizen," 470 Spring Park Place,
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Suite 1000, Herndon, Va. 22070.
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Eighty-year-old Lawrence Nipp is sick of "young punks taking
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the county over." So when his wife told him there was a youth in
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the back yard of his Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, home, Nipp
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retrieved his gun, told his wife to call police and confronted
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the teen. Unconvinced by his story claiming several men were
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trying to kill him, Nipp held the youthful criminal--who turned
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out to be a robbery suspect--for police at gunpoint.
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(The Sun-Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 08/03/93)
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Awakened by noises in his Manchester, New Hampshire, home,
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John Kazakis reached for his phone to call police. The phone was
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dead, however, so Kazakis picked up a rifle and went downstairs
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to investigate. When he saw a man take something from his mail-
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box and approach the house, Kazakis challenged him, and when that
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had no effect, fired a warning shot into the ground, prompting
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the man to flee. Responding police found that phone lines had
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been pulled out, apparently in an attempt to disable the home's
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burglar alarm.
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(The Citizen, Laconia, NH, 07/15/93)
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William Clark was tending the Indianapolis area liquor store
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where he works when a man laid a dollar bill on the counter to
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pay for a beer. Before Clark could take the money, however, he
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pulled a revolver, demanded money and Clark's gun. Clark started
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toward the cash register, then pulled his own 9 mm and fired,
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killing the robber.
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(The Star, Indianapolis, IN, 08/13/93)
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Alerted to an intruder's presence in her Dublin, Georgia,
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apartment when he began beating on her locked bedroom door,
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Dorothy Smith, 64, picked up her pistol. The man finally broke
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the door and entered the room, but Smith convinced him to leave
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by firing a shot.
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(The Courier Herald, Dublin, GA, 07/26/93)
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Count NRA member Dale Tipton of Hutchinson, Kansas, among
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those who have defended themselves with a gun and have lost their
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jobs for doing so. Tipton was delivering pizzas for Pizza Hut
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after a range session with his AR-15 when three teens tried to
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rob him. When one of the teens threatened him with a gun, Tipton
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hopped back into his car and grabbed his rifle. "As soon as they
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saw it, they were trucking," said Tipton. Although the incident
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occurred only a month after an unarmed driver was slain in
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Wichita, and police said he did nothing wrong, Pizza Hut fired
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Tipton.
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(The News, Hutchinson, KS, 08/17/93)
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"All of us were convinced he was going to kill us all," said
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Redwood City, California, grover John Pacheco of a man who
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brandished a pistol, knocked a customer to the floor and began
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raving. Pacheco grabbed his .45 from its hiding place and shot
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twice. One bullet found its mark, killing the gunman, who had
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been released from prison only two months before.
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(The Mercury News, San Jose, CA, 07/23/93)
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Awakened by noises, a Yuma, Arizona, homeowner got his gun
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before he went to investigate. When the resident was confronted
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by the intruder, he fired. Wounded, the interloper fled but was
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apprehended by police.
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(The Daily Sun, Yuma, AZ, 08/10/93)
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An attempted home invasion was thwarted when Mary Williams
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decided the man who asked to use her phone had something else in
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mind. Williams of Haines City, Florida, went to get her .38.
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When she returned, the man was beating her husband over the head
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with the phone. Williams ordered him from the home, but when he
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ignored her, she fired, mortally wounding him.
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(The News Chief, Winter Haven, FL, 07/25/93)
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Bill Faith used a larger caliber tool to defend himself after
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he was attacked in his New Albany, Indiana, liquor store by a
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man wielding a shovel and hammer. Although suffering from a head
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wound, Faith was able to pull his pistol and fire three shots.
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Wounded, the assailant ran, but was apprehended at a local
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hospital. "When a man ... hits you in the head with a shovel,
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you shoot him," said the local police chief.
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(The Tribune, New Albany, IN, 04/15/93)
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Willie Harris let a man use the phone in his Smithfield,
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Alabama, home, but when the man returned several hours later, he
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wasn't interested in a return call. Attacked by the man and an
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accomplice, Harris managed to retrieve a pistol he keeps in the
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house for personal protection and fired, wounding both attackers,
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one mortally.
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(The News, Birmingham, AL, 08/23/93)
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A Zion, Illinois, restaurant owner was ready when a strong-arm
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robber made his second appearance in two weeks. The thug, who
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was found to have cocaine in his blood, jumped the counter of
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Bernice Thurmond's eatery, shoved her aside and started grabbing
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money from the cash register. Thurmond grabbed a broom and hit
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the robber several times, then snatched up a handgun and fired,
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critically wounding him. The state's attorney said the shooting
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appeared justified.
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(The Tribune, Chicago, IL, 07/05/93)
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A late-night robbery attempt in a San Bernardino, California,
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pizza shop ended when an employee shot it out with the robbers
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and killed one. The armed crooks entered the shop through a back
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door and started binding the employees with tape. The employee
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pulled his gun, and in an exchange of shots, mortally wounded one
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and wounded the other.
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(The Press-Enterprise, San Bernardino, CA, 05/27/93)
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