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True life stories of how the 2nd Amendment helps protect you and your loved
ones by using an equalizer.

StoryA.  Lela Phillips, 66, was awakened by a noise in her Michigan home one
evening and moments later was contronted by a 20-year-old man who informed
her, "this [is] a stickup," according to Benton Township Detective Dolman
Lange.  "[She] told him 'damn right it's a stickup' and pointed [a handgun]
at him," said Lange.  The man turned and fled immediately.  It turns out
that a man had come to Phillips' home twice that same day and on the second
occasion, had asked to use her phone--a courtesy she denied him because of
her suspicion.  (The Herald-Palladium, St. Joseph, MI, 4/21/99)

StoryB.  James Rowlan, 70, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, had just finished
taking a shower one evening and his wife, Fannie, was following suit when
someone rang the front doorbell and knocked loudly.  Rowlan went to check
and met a youth poking his head inside to survey the home and asking if
"Mike" lived there.  Before Rowlan and time to let his suspicions turn to
warnings, the armed youth and an accomplice broke the storm door lock and
barged inside.  That's when Rowlan instructed his wife to barricade herself
in the bathroom and pretended to watch helplessly as the robbers ransacked
the couple's bedroom.  Little did they know Rowlan had inched toward the
nightstand where he kept a gun for protection.  "Their gun was much smaller.
So they were scared off by my husband's gun," said Fanny Rowlan after the
ordeal.  The two thugs "took off so fast they broke the chain on the storm
door," said James Rowlan.  (The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, OK,
3/26/99).


Gun control advocates are making head way because they appeal to the
emotions.  Gun advocates tend to state the facts, though true, facts are to
the TV blob minions of today, "boring".  So starting today, I am going to
appeal to emotions when I support the 2nd Amendment.  Then when someone
whines, that is the time to use the facts and support the emotional point.
I will post these messages to my state and federal represetatives and
senators, and to several newsgroups dealing with this Constitutional issue.
I urge all others who care about their founding forefathers and the legacy
they beseached upon us to do the same.  Rather simple and cheap these days
with the internet.

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Fire arms are used over 2 million times a year for personal protection, and
that the presence of a firearm, without a shot being fired, prevents crime
in many instances.