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Man threatens family, but wife shoots him first: police
TBO.com ^ | April 14, 2009 | TBO

Posted on 04/14/2009 5:47:14 PM PDT by GSP.FAN

As Christoff loaded a handgun, he called out the name of the family member each bullet was meant for, Winter Haven police say. His wife was apparently the first target.

Christoff pointed the gun at her, but Dawn Christoff had armed herself with a .9mm handgun to protect her family, police spokesman Sgt. Brad Coleman said.

Dawn Christoff pulled the trigger first, striking her husband several times.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: flarmedcitizen; guns; selfdefence
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1 posted on 04/14/2009 5:47:15 PM PDT by GSP.FAN
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To: GSP.FAN

.9mm? Wow, was it a needle gun?


2 posted on 04/14/2009 5:48:01 PM PDT by thecabal (Hey Obama, when you gonna start sharin' the sacrifice?)
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To: thecabal

And Obama, the boy wonder fuehrer, wants everyone to NOT be able to defend themselves against folks that would wish to murder us.


3 posted on 04/14/2009 5:49:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: GSP.FAN

bet he won’t do that again.


4 posted on 04/14/2009 5:49:42 PM PDT by txroadkill (Medicare, Medicaid and now we have Medi-Car)
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To: GSP.FAN

yay.

I am sure Obama would want her charged with murder.... oh you mean that only counted for home invaders?


5 posted on 04/14/2009 5:49:54 PM PDT by GeronL (tea parties quarterly until we get big enough to simply take over by force if necessary)
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To: GSP.FAN

Looks like a nice, big target....


6 posted on 04/14/2009 5:50:13 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR. ....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: thecabal

Somebody got to write their first-ever gun story.....


7 posted on 04/14/2009 5:51:13 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR. ....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Ha ha...it’s pretty obvious, huh?


8 posted on 04/14/2009 5:52:14 PM PDT by thecabal (Hey Obama, when you gonna start sharin' the sacrifice?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“Somebody got to write their first-ever gun story....”

What else do you expect from a liberal rag like TBO.


9 posted on 04/14/2009 5:52:47 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: GSP.FAN

“When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk”.

Eyes


10 posted on 04/14/2009 5:54:56 PM PDT by AlligatorEyes (Iactura paucourm serva multos)
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To: thecabal

Ballistics, math, it’s all so confusing. He does know one thing for sure, though. The climate in 2100, if we don’t outlaw the internal combustion engine. (I guess steam turbines are OK, though.)


11 posted on 04/14/2009 6:04:17 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The age of 0bama: the transient ischemic delusions of adequacy decade.)
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To: GSP.FAN

A good shoot. Case closed.


12 posted on 04/14/2009 6:08:38 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (Check out Puppy News at www.buyingapuppy.com)
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To: thecabal
.9mm? Wow, was it a needle gun?

From the article:
Dawn Christoff pulled the trigger first, striking her husband several times.

And a shotgun-needle gun too, it would seem...

13 posted on 04/14/2009 6:12:32 PM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
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To: Onelifetogive

Now this is an example of gun control at its finest. The wife hit exactly what she was aiming at. To her family she should be considered just as much a hero as Captain Phillips was to his crew. She protected them at great risk to her own life.


14 posted on 04/14/2009 6:13:53 PM PDT by Saltmeat
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To: GSP.FAN

So when someone whines that if you have a gun you are more likely to be killed with it, the answer of “Dawn Christoff” should shut them up now, right?


15 posted on 04/14/2009 6:16:34 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: AlligatorEyes
“When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk”.
Eyes

I thought it was Tuco who said that....Hmmm, maybe I was wrong....

16 posted on 04/14/2009 6:21:14 PM PDT by China Clipper (My favorite animals usually are found next to the rice on my plate.)
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To: GSP.FAN

This story can’t be right. Diane Sawyer says that she can’t find ANY accounts of where a citizen successfully used a gun to defend their lives.


17 posted on 04/14/2009 6:28:16 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
So when someone whines that if you have a gun you are more likely to be killed with it, the answer of “Dawn Christoff” should shut them up now, right?

Actually it will be used to say "guns are usually used to kill family members".

Of course, there are some family members that need killing.

18 posted on 04/14/2009 6:31:25 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (When you're spinning round, things come undone. Welcome to Earth 3rd rock from the Sun!)
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To: AlligatorEyes

Yep. When he started talking about how each bullet had a particular person’s name on it, it was time to start defending her life.


19 posted on 04/14/2009 6:32:34 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Yes and
20 posted on 04/14/2009 6:33:45 PM PDT by GSP.FAN
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