WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CAN'T DEFEND YOURSELF?

Remember the story of the woman who stopped a knife-wielding attacker at a
Wal-Mart in Spring Hill, Florida?  Last May, Sandra Suter pulled her licensed .40-caliber handgun to quickly stop a shoplifter's assault against store employees.

Now Robert A. Waters (author of "The Best Defense") brings us a recent story that shows us what happens when no one has a gun for self-defense.

At midnight on May 6, at a Wal-Mart in Lexington, Kentucky, Jorge Soto Luke walked out of the store.  The buzzer went off, indicating that he had been shoplifting.  A cashier, Aswana Waddy, yelled for Luke to stop.  He didn't.  No employees followed him out of the store.

Luke returned 15 minutes later with a knife.  He rushed Waddy and punched her, knocking her to the floor.  He began stabbing her. Two customers who tried to stop the attack were also stabbed.  Two store employees then tried to help, but Luke stabbed them too.  Another employee tried to pull Waddy away from Luke.  He stabbed her in the shoulder and slashed her face.

After nearly ten minutes, several male employees rushed Luke and subdued him.

Police say as many as eight store employees and customers had been knifed.  All of the victims except Waddy were released within 24 hours.  Waddy's injuries were severe enough to require surgery and a long hospital stay.

Later, the police investigation revealed that Luke was a crack addict with a history of mental illness.

No one in that Lexington Wal-Mart was armed.  There was no Sandra Suter there to stop this crackhead from injuring eight people.  Every single employee or customer who tried to stop Jorge Soto Luke was stabbed...and the attack seemed to go on forever.  It's unlikely that the attack would have gone on for so long if even one customer or employee had been carrying a gun.

All you anti-gunners out there...since you believe Sandra Suter shouldn't have been carrying that mean, nasty gun in that Wal-Mart in Florida, tell me how this situation in Kentucky--where the armed assailant was allowed to continue his rampage for ten minutes--was any better since no one had a gun.

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=2070

ANOTHER EVIL GUN SAVES THE DAY!

Eugene, Oregon.  Last Wednesday afternoon, a man began telephoning and threatening employees at the Oregon Podiatry Clinic.  His ex-wife used to work at the office.  He was upset with employees.  The employees locked their doors, called police, and waited for them to arrive.

The cops didn't get there in time.  The irate man got there first and pounded on the doors, trying to force his way inside.  He succeeded in breaking a glass door at the back of the office.

That's when an employee pulled his .45-caliber pistol, aimed it at the intruder, and warned him that police were on the way.

The suspect didn't heed the armed employee's warning and advanced.  The employee fired at him and missed.  The man ran away, then came back and was arrested.  Police say the employee won't be charged in the shooting because he was protecting lives and property with his legally owned handgun.

Just think...what would have gone down if that employee didn't have his trusty .45?  Where would this intruder have stopped?  How many employees would have been hurt?  Fortunately, we'll never know--because one employee was armed and ended the confrontation with just one shot.

Now, if only he'd work on his marksmanship...

http://www.registerguard.com/news/20010517/3d.cr.burglary.0517.html