Posted on 09/03/2005 5:59:03 AM PDT by grundle
John Carolan was sitting on his porch in the thick, humid darkness just before midnight Tuesday when three or four young men, one with a knife and another with a machete, stopped in front of his fence and pointed to the generator humming in the front yard, he said.
One said, "We want that generator," he recalled.
"I fired a couple of rounds over their heads with a .357 Magnum," Mr. Carolan recounted Wednesday. "They scattered."
Paul Cosma, 47, who owns a nearby auto shop, stood outside it along with a reporter and photographer he was taking around the neighborhood. He had pistols on both hips.
Suddenly, he stepped forward toward a trio of young men and grabbed a pair of rusty bolt cutters out of the hands of one of them. The young man pulled back, glaring.
Mr. Cosma, never claiming any official status, eventually jerked the bolt cutters away, saying, "You don't need these."
The young man and his friends left, continuing the glare. A few minutes later, they returned and mouthed quiet oaths at Mr. Cosma, and his friend Art DePodesta, an Army veteran, who was carrying a shotgun and a pistol.
Mr. Cosma stared back, saying nothing. Between the two sides, a steady trickle of looters came and went, barely giving any of them a look.
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Bump!
"I am so happy and surprised to see The New York Times reporting on people using guns for self defense."
Yea, but I bet their point was how insensitive the gun owners were for not letting their fellow citizens 'borrow' what they needed.
Waste of ammo firing over their heads.
Aim lower next time.
Yep! Lead is the only resource that needed to be wasted on them!
It was a short two days ago when the city was asking everyone to turn in their weapons. Imagine, just imagine the result if people had complied.
Aim lower next time.
Yes, but there's the mess to clean up afterward.
You got the date wrong. This is old information.
Is this racism?
Indeed. Just sends them on to find an unarmed victim.
The looters "are starting to get closer to heavily populated areas," Mayor C. Ray Nagin told The Associated Press, "hotels, hospitals, and we're going to stop it right now.".........
They weren't in heavily populated areas before? Well then that's ok. (idiot mayor)
Dumb questions don't deserve answers.
Dumb questions don't deserve answers.
I would have regarded your statement as hyperbole a year ago but now having seen Newsweek publish the Koran-in-the-toilet story, and sixteen people dead as the result, and probably little or no remorse on the part of the 'journalists', I believe it.
shouldn't call it a mess, just call it "deterence". plus it will attract the nastiest, hungriest, meanest dogs on the block as additional negative reeinforcement.
Guns sales nationwide are going to SOAR.
A gun is a tool, just like a crescent wrench or a hammer. It's a tool whereby civilized people defend themselves against uncivilized people--also known as "animals."
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