reprinted from Keep And Bear Arms Email Alert

In light of the fact that our media has been Proven biased against private gun ownership (http://www.keepandbeararms.org/media_bias.htm), we are printing real stories about real people saving their own lives, property or people they love by the legal use of a gun. To submit your own story, click here or go to the end of this page.

“My Gun May Have Saved My Life, and I Didn’t Even Fire a Shot”
by Vicki Young
[email protected]
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I live in a very rural area on a gravel road. There is only one neighbor in sight of my house and the closest police station is more than a half hour away. People do not just show up on my doorstep without calling first to be sure I will be here as it is so very far away from civilization. At the time this happened, I was a single mother with two boys ages 5 and 7. No one else was living in the home.

I unlocked and opened the door a small crack and said, “If you know my neighbors, then you know I am a recluse. I do not discuss my work with my neighbors and I do not invite strangers into my home.”

“Then can you come out here and talk a bit?” he asked. “I just want to talk about your work.”

“No. You are intruding on my privacy. If you want to talk about my work, write my fan club or visit me when I am performing. I do not discuss my career when I am not at work.” I was adamant and clear.

“Awe, come on! I just want to talk to you a little. Can’t I come in?!” he insisted.

At this point, he moved towards the door with his hand. My right foot was blocking it, keeping it from being opened more than the 3 inches it was. I brought my right hand into view from behind the door, showing him I was armed, but not pointing the gun directly at him. He made no move to back away. I felt I had no option but to be more forceful.

“Look, I have tried to be nice, now I am telling you, get off my property!” I pointed my gun directly at his gut. He backed away, off my porch and left.

As a follow up, I immediately called the neighbors whose name he had mentioned. They told me they had gone to high school with this guy and he had a record for breaking and entering. I hung up the phone and reported the incident to the police. I have had no problems with him or anyone else since.

Vicki Young
[email protected]

Recently in California…

I notice the Mainstream media is playing down the home invasion that took place in Alamo, CA. I’m once more visiting the San Francisco Bay area and it’s the talk of the town here.

It seems the Mainstream media has no interest in accurately portraying the incident, as it doesn’t fit their model of gun control, eh? Several local papers here in San Jose are giving the full details (trying to find one online so I can provide a link)

The basic rundown is….

Two assailants kicked in the front door of a private residence in the town of Alamo, CA. Upon entering, they immediately shot the housekeeper, grazing her in the head. The home owner and a friend, hearing the shot, confronted the assailants, killing one and wounding the other. They then tied the wounded one up and awaiting the arrival of the Police.

That’s the general story, now for the details:

*One assailant was Black.
*The home owner defended himself with a semi-auto handgun.
*The home owner protected his family and probably prevented their deaths.
*The home owner is Chinese.
*Police are calling it a justifiable homicide.

What’s particular interesting is that the stories I’ve seen about this incident, in the Mainstream media, it’s pointed out that the criminals had “a semi-automatic handgun”, but the home owner is portrayed as having “a gun”.

Sure sure, there’s no media bias….

MaryAnn at the Rest Stop

From: [email protected] (Maryann Watkins)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Personal safety & Mr. Galambos
Date: 14 Jun 1994 16:04:31 -0700

Robert Galambos prefers to debate the issue with me in email but I want it right out in the open. He seems to question my experience of defending myself with a firearm. So . . . Mr. Galambos, here (brief capsule) is what happened. Take notes . . there will be a quiz at the end. —–

Broad daylight . . I stopped at a rest stop along an interstate in the middle of the AZ desert – a rest area I’d been to many, many times before. When I got out of the car, I took my revolver from the holster and carried it at my side into the bathroom.

As I came out of the bathroom, I saw a very large man standing right there – waiting for me – about 10 feet from the door. He had a rope coiled in his right hand. As I stood there, surprised by his presence, he said, “I’m gonna have some REAL fun now.”

I think even you can assume he wasn’t going to invite me to a rodeo. I was suddenly overwhelmed by pure anger – anger that someone would even dare to threaten me like that – and I took his threat quite seriously. I simply pulled up the gun, took a proper stance and aimed right for the middle of his chest. After all . . . I was faced with a very real decision: him or me. Easy . . I chose ME.

And then it was HIS turn to be surprised. He must have realized his rope couldn’t compete with my gun and then faced his own decision: live or die. He chose to live . . dropped the rope . . and started backing away, real quick. At that point I managed to get to my car and get the hell out of there.

Now, Mr. Galambos . . here are the questions I’d like you to answer since you (in your email) seemed to doubt I needed a firearm. How do you believe I could have defended myself in that situation?
A) Scream? Wrong, you lose. There was nobody else around.
B) Call police? Wrong, you lose. There was no opportunity to “call” anybody. C) Run? Wrong, you lose. He had me cornered with nowhere to run – until he dropped the rope and backed up.
D) Pepper spray? Wrong, you lose. The breeze was headed in MY direction, not his.
E) Fight physically? Wrong, you lose. He was at least 9-10 inches taller than I am and weighed probably double. I wish I could tout physical strength as an attribute, but in my case that isn’t reality.
F) Talk? Wrong, you lose. HE started the talking with a threat and he meant every word of it.

Mr. Galambos, you keep harping on the people who are killed with firearms. Now start talking about those of us who used a firearm to prevent death – or assault. We are statistics, too – and are alive to put our own numbers on the board. My sons are quite happy that I was armed that day. So am I . . and there is NOTHING you can say to defend your position that I shouldn’t have had a weapon in my hand. When you say that, you are advocating I allow anyone to do anything to me – including take my life.

If you want that for yourself, so be it. But don’t patronize me and don’t assume you can EVER make that decision for me.

Then there are the flip-side stories….

Just Another Day with Gun Control
by Jim Houck,
Creative Director, Citizens Of America,
written 1/16/200

http://www.citizensofamerica.org/witness.htm

The movie I went to see today, at the request of my film managers, was “Hurricane” starring Denzil Washington. I write feature films. I write TV ads for the largest advertising agencies on earth for clients like Toyota, Ford, Sony and Coke. I am the “Hollywood crowd” that the liberal press lies about so often.

I arrived early at the Torrance, California AMC 20 Theaters, so I bought my ticket and sat on a bench just outside the front lobby under a palm tree for about half an hour, enjoying the many different faces, the playing kids, the adults.

A flood of Californians streamed out suddenly. A young girl had been attacked by a criminal whom had just shot her. “Is the shooter stopped?” I asked, reaching for my Heckler & Koch USP .45, running for the lobby with the intent to kill the criminal before he could injure or kill more of We the People.

“No, nobody can do anything! He’s just walking around like he owns the place!” a California woman cried, trembling like a mouse before the lion. And indeed, the criminal did.

I ripped up my leather jacket and found my holster missing. I didn’t have my .45 with me today. I’d opted not to take it just this one time at the advice of the local Californians, avoid the hassle of the California cops if they discover it, I thought, save the massive court costs of exercising my right.

“Don’t get caught, the street officers will hook you and book you and let the judges sort it out,” a friend and local California police officer had told me repeatedly. Besides, it was three in the afternoon next door to Palos Verdes Estates, one of the most affluent and lowest crime areas in the United States. My decision to leave my self-defense at home very likely cost the young man who would be shot next his life. I have extensive, combat firearms training. I’ve been in three gun battles with criminals in New Orleans and Miami in the defense of myself twice and a Miami police officer once, and I’ve never missed nor have I lost. The criminals did.

Of course the criminal didn’t know these things. He didn’t know he was in a “low crime” area and he didn’t seem to care that it was three in the afternoon on a Sunday. All he knew was that he was operating in Senator Diane Feinstein’s wet dream, a theater of perfect Gun Control. Not one citizen in the large crowd of moms, dads, young men or young women had a firearm with which to defend themselves. So they ran. But the funny thing is, they didn’t run very fast and the certainly didn’t run very far, in fact, many basically hurried and the stood around and complained about not being able to finish their show. You see, criminals being in full control is nothing new in California. It’s not news. It didn’t excite these folks.

I stopped outside the lobby doors. No gun. No way to fight this criminal, I thought. The shooter fired again, dropping a young man next. Well, the California people voted this idiocy through, they repeatedly elect servants like Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer as state senators, people who take away their rights to self defense and the defense of their families, I thought, let them deal with the consequences of their decisions. Of course the criminal walked out the back of the AMC 20 Theaters and vanished long before the local police could wade through the Sunday traffic and do the paperwork. At least they were nice enough to come.

They didn’t have to. They responded as a “courtesy” according to the Supreme Court. They have no legal duty to protect the individual from criminal assault or murder. Something surprisingly few people know, especially in California. I looked at the downed young man. He would die, judging from my own personal experiences as a shooter of over 20 years and where the criminal had injured him. The girl, barring very unusual circumstances, she would live, judging from where the criminal had injured her and her loss of blood.

The police put pressure on the injuries to try and reduce the bleeding from the criminal attack. Another courtesy service. I sat back down on the bench and watched the Californians as they angrily demanded their ticket money be refunded, the victims of the criminal lying ten yards from them, moaning, dying.

A man with his wife in the line of angry movie patrons turned to me and growled, “I’m surprised Feinstein isn’t here already. And the liberal mainstream press. You know, we carry our guns anyway and we didn’t bring them today because it’s such a hassle to have to hide them all the time from the local cops. What a bunch of ****. Just look at that guy. He’s probably going to die.”

Thanks, Senator Feinstein. As a resident of Florida, in Los Angeles working on feature film scripts with my L.A. based managers, it’s interesting to see how your Prohibition on self-defense, “Gun Control” works. Of course, had you been there to see “The Hurricane”, your armed bodyguards would have used their semi-automatic, high capacity “assault weapons” to stop the criminal dead in his tracks, which is what the bastard richly deserved. Funny, Diane, with all your SB 23′s and SB 15′s and Prohibition on self-defense, the criminal still badly hurt and perhaps killed two young kids who just went to see a movie on a quiet Sunday afternoon. Why call it “gun control”? Why not rename it “defenseless sheep” or the “citizen massacre laws”? Or maybe just simple “bull****”.

Wish you could have been there Diane to see how your idiotic laws work in real life. It was memorable.

Jim Houck
Los Angeles, California
Creative Director, Citizens Of America
written 1/16/200

http://www.citizensofamerica.org/witness.htm