Opie
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I've been been browsing the forum for a few weeks and enjoy the discussions very much. The stories about people successfully defending themselves are inspiring, and I would like to contribute stories that I come across, but I was wondering where I should post the story that was on Fox News this morning:
Naval Officer Killed by Carjacker While Home on Leave
Monday, June 12, 2006
DALLAS—A Naval chief petty officer home on leave from the Middle East was shot and killed by a carjacker just three days before he was to report back for duty.
Kameron Pratt, scheduled to return after minor shoulder surgery, was shot by an unidentified carjacker who dragged him from his pickup truck at his parents' home in Dallas on Friday night.
Here is the link for the full story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199033,00.html
I don't want to add to the hurt of a victim's loss by discussing it at length. However, I am more inspired to carry personal protection by realizing that there are bad people doing bad things to good people than I am by reading stories of people killing other people justifiably in self defense.
It's hard to convey the correct tone of my argument in text. I was just thinking that if we could highlight cases where people could have defended themselves if they had been carrying it might add an interesting angle to this topic. It is hard to predict what would have happened, but I assume that this gentleman, being a Naval officer, would have been able to defend himself had he been carrying a sidearm.
Another example would be the family that was attacked by the black bear this spring near Benton, TN. The mother tried unsuccessfully to defend her family, but having only sticks and rocks she was dragged off into the woods by the bear. Here is a link to a newspaper account: http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060415/NEWS01/60414068
I've been been browsing the forum for a few weeks and enjoy the discussions very much. The stories about people successfully defending themselves are inspiring, and I would like to contribute stories that I come across, but I was wondering where I should post the story that was on Fox News this morning:
Naval Officer Killed by Carjacker While Home on Leave
Monday, June 12, 2006
DALLAS—A Naval chief petty officer home on leave from the Middle East was shot and killed by a carjacker just three days before he was to report back for duty.
Kameron Pratt, scheduled to return after minor shoulder surgery, was shot by an unidentified carjacker who dragged him from his pickup truck at his parents' home in Dallas on Friday night.
Here is the link for the full story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199033,00.html
I don't want to add to the hurt of a victim's loss by discussing it at length. However, I am more inspired to carry personal protection by realizing that there are bad people doing bad things to good people than I am by reading stories of people killing other people justifiably in self defense.
It's hard to convey the correct tone of my argument in text. I was just thinking that if we could highlight cases where people could have defended themselves if they had been carrying it might add an interesting angle to this topic. It is hard to predict what would have happened, but I assume that this gentleman, being a Naval officer, would have been able to defend himself had he been carrying a sidearm.
Another example would be the family that was attacked by the black bear this spring near Benton, TN. The mother tried unsuccessfully to defend her family, but having only sticks and rocks she was dragged off into the woods by the bear. Here is a link to a newspaper account: http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060415/NEWS01/60414068