The Armed Citizen - February 2002

NRA ^ | 1/24/02 | Various Sources

[TomServo]

An East Hartford, Conn., pawn shop employee shot and killed one of two masked men when they attempted to rob the store. Bill Kane was working in the rear of Tom's Pawn Shop about 5:30 one Tuesday evening when two masked men armed with metal pipes entered the store. Kane's coworker, Ralph Lane, was working at a jewelry bench at the front of the store when the men came in and began swinging the pipes and demanding that the safe be opened. When one robber hit Lane, he pressed an alarm button that summoned police. The second robber headed toward the back of the store. Kane warned the approaching miscreant that he was armed, but the man continued toward him with a metal pipe. Kane then drew his .380-cal. handgun and shot the robber. Upon hearing the shots, the robber's cohort fled the scene. (The Hartford Courant, Hartford, Conn., 11/21/01)

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A West Side Chicago resident shot and killed an intruder in his home when the man stormed into his bedroom and demanded to see a part of his wife's anatomy. Curtis Reed kicked open the basement door of the apartment building and ran up the back stairs directly into the couple's bedroom. "He said to the woman, 'show me your ... ,' and at that point, the husband fired," said Area 4 Violent Crimes Detective Mike Miller. Reed did not appear to have stolen anything from the home, Miller reported. (Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, Ill., 11/23/01)

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A Smyrna, Ga., man's career as a burglar "turned on a dime," according to Fulton County police. The intruder had used a screwdriver to break into a carport window and enter a home in South Fulton County. The man quickly picked up a television set and took it out to his car. Then he returned to the house and entered a back bedroom where he accidentally dropped some change on the floor. When he bent down to retrieve the money, he came face-to-face with a frightened Christopher Daniel who was hiding under the bed. Daniel, who lives in the home with his parents, had called the police with the phone he still held in one hand. In the other hand was a .357 Mag. handgun from which he fired, hitting the intruder three times. Police arrived within minutes and charged the intruder with burglary. If the man hadn't dropped the coins, he might have made a clean getaway, said Wenda Phifer, a Fulton County police spokeswoman. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., 11/28/01)

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When Virginia Delaney returned home from shopping, she noticed some things out of place: A bedroom fan was turned around, and her VCR was nearly pulled out of the entertainment center. Delaney then picked up her shotgun and searched the house. Upon discovering an interloper in the laundry room, she escorted him to her bedroom and made him empty his pockets. The would-be burglar complied, handing over a cell phone, a pack of cigarettes and four pennies. Delaney allowed the intruder to leave, and he walked across the street to his house. Delaney then phoned police and reported her neighbor, whom police later arrested. (The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Okla., 12/04/01)

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An Elsmere, Ky., man was shot and killed by a clerk after he tried to rob a Covington, Ky., convenience store. The crook, Perry Pinkelton, had brandished a handgun and demanded money from a store clerk, reported Covington Police Capt. Charles Gurren. When another store employee, armed with a handgun, confronted him, the robber fired his gun three times, but missed. The armed employee returned fire, shooting the robber several times. A neighbor later reported that, "Two weeks ago, someone put a gun in [the owner's] face and robbed him." (The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, 11/13/01)

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A 61-year-old Elkhart, Ind., man thwarted two would-be robbers who had broken into his home one night. The resident had been resting in his bedroom when he heard glass breaking. He grabbed his handgun and confronted the two intruders, who turned and fled after the resident tried to fire his gun, but they earned a reprieve when it jammed. The men had entered the home by breaking the glass in a door and turning the deadbolt key inside. (The Truth, Elkhart, Ind., 11/08/01)

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A woman shot and injured a gunman in her yard early one Sunday, cutting short his assault on her and her children. Jaquie Creazzo and her three daughters were forced to flee their home after smoke from a car fire billowed into the house. Once they were outside, Justin Michael Getz came screaming toward the wheelchair-bound woman and her family, firing two handguns at them. "He was loaded for bears," Creazzo said. Her daughters and two nearby firefighters ducked for cover from the erratic gunfire, but Creazzo drew her own gun and fired several shots, hitting her attacker in the leg. Getz was the ex-boyfriend of Creazzo's eldest child, and, according to Creazzo, had threatened to kill the family two days earlier when the girl refused to see him again. "I'm certain if I hadn't responded, none of us would be here today," Creazzo said of the incident. "He had made threats to kill each and every one of us." (The Denver Post, Denver, Colo., 11/23/01)

[TomServo]

An armed society is a polite society.

[samuel_adams_us]

Jacquie Creazzo abviously learned from the incident that put her in that wheel chair that the cops are never there in time to defend your life:

http://www.thedailycamera.com/news/local/17lspct.html <P? Just with the anti-gun idiots could understand this also. Oh well those without common sense are useless anyway.

[samuel_adams_us]

http://www.thedailycamera.com/news/local/17lspct.html

[RFP]

BUMP !! I just love these reports. Tom, did you type all this in by hand from the latest magazine issue?

[NerdDad]

Thank you for posting this NRA version of the Darwins. Somebody please forward them the thread from last week about the genius who brought the screwdriver to a gunfight.

[RFP]

nevermind. I just clicked on the link - didn't realize all of this was online at NRA. cool!

[TomServo]

Tom, did you type all this in by hand from the latest magazine issue?

lol - no way. Just cut and pasted. ;-)

[TomServo]

Bang...

[LibKill]

Way cool. I love it when an honest citizen sends a theif, robber, rapist or murderer to the graveyard.

[johnny7]

Let the vermin beware.

William Manchester once wrote... “I am a dog. When cornered, I will barr my teeth.”

I have a license-to-carry and live outside of Hartford, Ct.

You're easy prey should you decide to leave yourself to the whim of 2 or 3 punks.

[Maccabee]

Please send these lists to the Iowa supreme court, they have deemed it unlawful to shoot anyone in the proccess of commiting a 'nonviolent' crime.

[TomServo]

Bttt...