22. An Arizona prosecutor, awakened to noises in his home one morning, feared he was about to become the target of a gang-sanctioned "hit" as payback for his work in trying drug cases. In fact, the Prescott man was under attack not from assassins, but from burglars who had broken out a window on the lower floor and were attempting to steal his prized musical instruments. He was ready. "I had a .25 in the desk, and I got it out and racked it," he reported. When an intruder entered his bedroom and ignored the order to "freeze," the prosecutor fired. Police later tracked down several individuals suspected in a rash of burglaries in the area. One suffered from gunshot wounds to his buttocks, upper arm, and hand. "People can defend themselves, absolutely, if they feel that their lives or the lives of others are threatened," remarked Prescott Police spokesman Sgt. Shane Reed. (The Daily Courier, Prescott, AZ, 6/5/00) Before anyone draws any parallels between this case, and the prosecutor/gun control advocate who was killed by an assassin a week or so ago, in that case, the gun control advocate never had a chance, he was shot from someone outside his house... and before you say "a gun could have saved his life," for all we know, he HAD a gun. After all, even though he was a gun control advocate, those people believe themselves to be "special," and many of them own handguns, especially important people like prosecutors.
