THanks RB! Well Jeff...I think a good point has been
made. I can still dig up some of the instances you
desire but I think RB has a list he gets every month
as well.
Dan (Nothing personal Jeff)
--- RBHouston@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 07/12/2000 1:08:06 PM Pacific
> Daylight Time,
> jboatri@emory.edu writes:
>
> << OK, Dan, surprise us. How about some real data on
> either subject:
>
> (1) How many successful uses of a firearm for
> personal defense occur
> in your city/county/state/country (any one will do)
> in the past
> year/decade/century (any one will do)?
>
> (2) How many times did these go unreported in the
> press?
>
> Educate us. >>
>
>
> Let me try, let me try (put me in coach!)...
>
> Just a week or so ago (do I get points off for not
> knowing the exact date?) a
> less than ideal citizen type jumps the fence at a
> local (El Paso, TX)
> doctor's home. He approaches a contractor working
> in the guys yard with his
> hand in his shirt, announces that he has a gun and
> forces the guy into the
> house. He gathers up the good Dr., the contractor,
> and the Dr.'s family
> including teen age children, and has them kneel on
> the kitchen floor. Not a
> pretty scenario.
>
> Then, being an obvious Rhodes scholar type the
> "gunman" asks the Dr. to go
> and get him some clean clothes to change into. The
> Dr. returned with the
> clothes, and a handgun, and ended the hostage
> situation with two shots to the
> fellows chest.
>
> It turned out he actually had no gun, and I am sure
> the mental anguish the
> Dr. is going through right now is tremendous and
> only secondary to that he
> was suffering with his family on their knees in the
> kitchen. HE DID THE
> RIGHT THING. There were only two ways the situation
> could have turned out
> otherwise. The bad guy could have changed clothes,
> said thank you, and left
> peacably, or he could have killed them all. Would
> you bet your childrens
> life on an unbalanced stanger making the right
> decision?
>
> This was in the paper, locally, because it was good
> news. Did anyone outside
> this area read about it? I'd be surprised. I get a
> monthly magazine that
> lists a page full of such successful defenses in
> each issue, but none ever
> make national news. BUT, let anyone be killed in an
> accident, or a child be
> killed by any type of gun in under any circumstance
> in the US and it will
> make page one in a great deal of newspapers. I'm
> not minimizing the
> importance or tragedy of a child's death, but noting
> that stories that lend
> themselves to the anti-gun movement get much more
> play than those that would
> support a pro-armed citizen movement.
>
> Like I said, did anyone read about the Dr. saving
> his family's lives? Bet
> you all read about the child in Deming, NM that took
> a gun to school and shot
> another child.
>
> Again, accidental, or intentional, or criminal
> deaths of innocents by gunshot
> are despicable and we should do everything in our
> power to stop them. But
> trying to get rid of an inanimate object to solve
> people problems is like
> banning cars to stop drunk drivers.
>
> RH...can you tell how I really feel?
=====
Dan Dwelley
77 Midget
Alexandria, Va.
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