—–Original Message—–
From: Terry Nixon <>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Date: Saturday, December 12, 1998 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: Reason for law abiding people to own handguns.

>AMEN!! Swift JUSTICE SERVED!!
>I’m also a cop. Works for me!!
>
>
>On 10 Dec 1998 21:38:32 -0500, (Steve
>wrote:
>
>> My mother who was 68 years old at the time and lives alone in
North
>>Carolina, has carried a handgun in her purse for many years. My
father
>>passed away 20 years ago and I live some 70 miles from my mothers
home
>>in South Carolina. Well, on the night of October 19, 1996 my
mother who
>>is a retired nurse now was coming home from work around 11:00pm.
She
>>lives in a somewhat secluded area and has a automatic garage door
>>opening system with an alarm system on the house. when she opened
the
>>door and drove her cady into the garage she pressed the button for
the
>>door to go down. As the door was going down she saw a b/m run
behind her
>>car and get down behind the rear bumper and wait for her to get out
of
>>her car. She then calmly cranked the car and press the garage door
>>button for it to open and her plan was to just drive away. In the
mean
>>time she took out her Charter Arms Bulldog 44 and sat it on her lap.
>>Well the burglar/rapist had other plans. When the door started
going
>>back up he ran around and broke the passenger door window and was
>>reaching into the car when she unloaded two slugs into his chest.
Then
>>she calmly got out of the car went into the house and called her
son (A
>>police officer) in SC and said she thought she had just killed
someone.
>>Well I drove 70 miles in 45 minutes and the local Sheriffs office
was
>>already their and sure enough he was dead as yesterday. Well she
went
>>to a hearing and it was ruled justifiable. The burglar/rapist it
was
>>found out had recentley been released from prison. But we won’t
have
>>to feed him for 40 or 50 years. I get chills thinking what would
have
>>happened had she not been armed. She is 70 now but still sleeps
next to
>>her Bulldog my father left her when he passed away in 1978.