On 2011-07-18, Doug Freyburger > wrote:

> incidents are preventive. The law abiding citizen shows the weapon and
> the criminal flees.

My two favorite stories includes an eighty year old widow who drove
off a garage burglar with an ancient single-action Colt. She needed
two hands to even hold the gun up, but the burglar thought better of
testing her resolve and skee-daddled. When the news asked this crusty
old granny what she would have done if the burglar hadn't run off, she
replied, "Ida shot the sonofabitch!"

The other involves two armed men robbing a family owned liquor store
in a small mid-western town. The perps had the husband and son at
gunpoint in the front of the store. The wife, who'd recently finished
a gun handling course, came out of the back room with pistols
a-blazing, a semi-auto in one hand and a .357 in the other. She shot
both dirtbags dead. The local sheriff had nothing but praise for her
actions.

Protection is not always against threatening humans. My recent pistol
purchase was for protection against bears. We've had bears on our
deck every year for the last 3 yrs, one bear returning twice within 12
hrs. The CO DOW trapped one rogue bear in my drive-way and another
attacked a young boy less than 5 miles from here, only last week.

nb