[rabidralph]

Arlington--I just knew this headline wasn't about Virginia.

[Trygar]

When my uncle's house was broken into, my stepfather talked to my cousin, who was a Sheriff Deputy. My cousin told my stepfather that if he had to shoot the intruder, to make sure he killed him. 1) There would only be one side to the story and 2) It would be less paper work for him (my cousin) if the intruder was dead.

[Belasarius]

That's funny.... I didn't catch on until you posted. Yeah, couldn't be Arlington, VA. It wouldn't be in the paper. When I lived in Norfolk, VA there was a helluva parking lot shootout just up the road from me and they never printed a thing about it in the Ledger-Star.

The bride and groom following their wedding were checking into their motel in a really nice area of town right beside my church when they were accosted by three guys with a shotgun. The groom shot and killed one of them and the other two grabbed him and tried to shoot him with his own pistol which misfired. He managed to get away. The two were subsequently captured. (This is all from memory from nearly 20 years ago).

The only reason I finally heard about was that the tiny little Hampton, VA paper wrote a story about it and I'm guessing it was the only press it got.

In my mind that was a front page headline and the notoriously anti-gun Ledger-Star concealed it.