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   Joe Carter was driving down a Hillsborough County street near
St. Petersburg, Florida, one evening when a man jumped out and
blocked his way.  The man and two accomplices began pounding on
and rocking Carter's truck, prompting Carter to draw his pistol
and warn the trio away.  When they didn't take the hint, Carter
rolled the window down and fired a shot, wounding one man.
Carter alerted police, who arrested a wounded suspect.
 (The Times, St. Petersburg, FL, 10/05/93)
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   Crime doesn't pay, even when you're married to your partner, a
Washington, North Carolina, couple found out.  Robert Griffin
woke up early one morning to a commotion in his yard.  When he
looked outside, he saw the couple loading his lounge chairs into
their van.  Griffin armed himself and held the married
perpetrators at gunpoint until police arrived.
 (The Daily News, Washington, NC, 10/22/93)
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   Aaron Smith was waiting outside the Crystal Springs,
Mississippi, convenience store where his wife works when he heard
her scream.  He started inside, where a man was rifling the till
and holding a gun to his wife's chest, but retreated when the
gunman pointed the pistol at him.  Smith grabbed a 12-ga. shotgun
from his car, and when the crook exited the store, ordered him to
stop.  Instead of complying, the man raised his gun, and Smith
killed him.
 (The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MS, 10/18/93)
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   Sue Atkins of Durham, North Carolina, appeared in this column
in February 1993 after shooting a man who tried to rob her
Western Union office/fish store.  Atkins didn't need to shoot the
man who attempted to rob the store this time--her fifth encounter
encounter with criminals--but she did chase him out.  The man
entered, asking about fish, but then threatened to kill Atkins.
She pulled her handgun and chased the man, but lost him.  Police
promptly arrested a suspect.  "I will fight back, and I will
continue to fight back," said Atkins.
 (The Morning Star, Wilmington, NC, 10/06/93)
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   A female clerk at a Stamford, Connecticut, area store noticed
a man stuffing two videos into his pants before coming to the
counter to pay for a magazine.  When confronted, the man denied
having the videos, so the clerk reached over the counter and
grabbed them.  When the "customer" threatened her, saying,
"you're sorry, you're dead," the clerk pulled a pistol and
ordered him from the store.  Police caught up with the would-be
shoplifter a few blocks aways, and noted that the clerk had a
permit for the gun.
 (The Advocate, Stamford, CT, 10/25/93)
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