I remember when this happened - I thought it was FIVE thugs who approcahed him.
And they asked if he had 5 dollars, and he said “yeah I’ve got 5 dollars for each of you”
At the time he was hailed as a hero to many, and the subways became a lot safer afterwards- not as a DIRECT result, but it certainly lit the spark
They were going to mug him, and he saved his own ass with A GUN~! (the horror)
One of the perps is permanently paralyzed so he has had a nice long time to think about that 5 dollars he wanted
more than 2 muggers, wikipedia says 4. I recall that several of the other yutes continued their life of crime and made headlines for doing so.
...and he remains so as far as I'm concerned. It's always praiseworthy when thugs get a dose of hot lead. Good guys being armed and taking decisive action against evildoers makes for a safe, happy and free society: "An armed society is a polite society."
And one raped and sodomized a woman on a rooftop.
I’ll never forget the black people in my office cheering Bernie the day after the attack. Then after people like crazy-man Jimmy Breslin et al went after him, the cheering stopped and Bernie became a pariah. Bad times in NYC.
It was not two muggers, it was four. I remember it well. I lived exactly one block away from him at the time, used to see him in the neighborhood often. The subways were a horror then, and remained so until Giuliani came in as mayor. The change was so huge, it was like night and day. He turned the city from a dump into something wonderful.
He took a stand against Arafat and Castro when they came here to the U.N. He would have made a terrific president, but he seemed too liberal for the Right. So look at what we have now.
It was not two muggers, it was four. I remember it well. I lived exactly one block away from him at the time, used to see him in the neighborhood often. The subways were a horror then, and remained so until Giuliani came in as mayor. The change was so huge, it was like night and day. He turned the city from a dump into something wonderful.
He took a stand against Arafat and Castro when they came here to the U.N. He would have made a terrific president, but he seemed too liberal for the Right. So look at what we have now.