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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
"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.'"
Well said. There is an old saying that "All men are created equal. Sam Colt made 'em that way." The civilized people would do well to remember that.
Why else, when you go to the range for practice, the saying, "Keep it in the BLACK"? :)
They always go bang...
EXCEPT when they are in Egyptian rifles, being carried by Egyptian troops, facing an onslought of Israeli's.
"RUN AWAY!, RUN AWAY!, RUN AWAY!".
LoL
I still want an 8mm egyptian Hakim
But its no match for an israeli 8mm 1919 machinegun L0L
It is NOT about "sporting purposes", you gun-grabbing, 2nd Amendment-hating, freedom-loathing, un-American demonRATS!
Note: In my previous post, I should have spelled onslaught correctly, but got in a hurry.
But, but, but, you would be shooting registered democratic voters. /sarcasm
....that the old muddy will just sweep away....!
...my birth year and i allways go "bang" too...
Too much information L0L
NYT editors must have been asleep today.
Here, allow me:
"Guns are never the answer."
"Guns may be okay in Louisiana, but would never be acceptable in NY. Might cause explosive decompression if one was used in one of our subways."
"Just call 9-1-1."
"You are 43 times more likely to shoot your wife than to shoot a looter taking your generator."
LMAO! Glad you got your computer glitch fixed. I was scratching my head there for a while!
My puter was in some ether zone. All seems well now
Exactly. Otherwise, not ONE of these defensive uses of firearms will make it into Sarah Brady's "43 times more likely" stats (which STRICTLY require that the perp be killed, and be an "intruder").
repeat of 911 gun sales
You could take pot-shots at bodies floating by down there, and you'd be "shooting registered democratic voters"!
Yes, their votes will probaby be counted in the next election.
Thanks for the 'about bloody time' ping!
A little perspective here. What is he going to do with the rotting corpses? Better to let them walk and tell others not to mess with him than to have to bury a corpse in your front yard.
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