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Here is a taste of what SanFranciscans can expect after their little ban is put in to effect.

NY home invaders sought
Cops hunt for 3 in home invasion shooting35-year-old shot in the head; three suspects on the loose
(New York -WABC, January 19, 2006) - Police on Staten Island are searching for three armed robbers who forced their way into a home and shot the owner.
It happened about 2:30 Thursday afternoon at a home on Lake Avenue in Mariners Harbor.
Police say a 16-year-old girl was home when the robbers forced their way inside.
While they were ransacking the place, the owner came home and was shot in the head.
As the suspects were running away, they dropped a safe they had stolen.
The victim is in critical but stable condition.
The teenager was not injured.

FYI, NY is in the top 5 states when it comes to the restriction on guns. They had ONLY 540 murders in NYC for 2005. Thats 1.5 a day approximately. How many of these could have been prevented had the victim been armed?

Here is another story that shows criminals are afraid of people that carry.
Homeowner shoots one, the rest scattered
Police in Collierville say a homeowner shot and killed one of several people who broke into his house over the weekend.

Police Lieutenant Greg Flint says homeowner Brian Harper was awakened by his burglar alarm early Saturday and fired at the intruders with a .45-caliber handgun, striking one of them. Flint says the others scattered and Harper doesn't know if the several other shots he fired hit anyone else.

Police say none of the home invaders fired a weapon, but investigators don't know if any of them had one.

The dead invaders police record shows arrests since 1998 for violations including criminal trespass, especially aggravated robbery and cocaine possession.

And yet another story of using a gun for defense.
I have a gun, if you come in, I will shoot you
In class, New lectured that you have no control of the time or place when you might face a surprise showdown. In Needham's case, it came on a business trip to Florida, where she had checked into a hotel room, chained the door and set her pistol on the bedside.
"I was relaxing for a moment when somebody suddenly opened the door," Needham said. "They were coming into the room. The chain stopped them. I grabbed my pistol and racked a round so they could hear the action and know I had a gun."
Needham remembers shouting: "Stop! Do not come in! Who are you?"
The guy yelled back, deep and menacing, 'I'm coming in,' Needham recalled.
"Do not come in!" she shouted back. "I have a gun! Leave!"
The intruder wedged his arm past the door and wrestled to try to unhook the safety chain. The arm was "huge and hairy and it scared me," Needham said.
Her training kicked in. She positioned herself around a corner, pointing her .45 Colt semi-automatic pistol at point-blank range and again shouted a warning: "Do not come in. I have a gun. If you come in, I will shoot you."
For the intruder, logic apparently set in -- and the man ran off down the hall. Needham said hotel security did not find him. "Nobody knew anything."

Idiots in this next story confirm, we NEED to arm ourselves for defense.
One dead, one charged in shooting.
The Jackson County Sheriff's Department is investigating a shooting Sunday that left Brian Howell dead and his friend, Richard Hinton, in jail.
Sheriff Mike Byrd said Howell and Hinton went to get Hinton's ex-wife, who was with her boyfriend, Donald Sexton Sr., at Sexton's house on Yellow Bluff Road. Howell and Hinton, the sheriff said, had baseball bats and guns with them.
Hinton allegedly fired into the trailer, but did not hit anyone. Byrd said it appears Sexton returned fire in self-defense and struck Howell in the head. Howell was taken to a hospital in Alabama, where he later died.
Hinton was charged with shooting into an occupied dwelling. Byrd said the case against Sexton will be presented to a grand jury, which will decide whether charges against him will be filed.

This story shows how guns COULD save lives.
Woman mauled to death by dogs.
A 76-year-old woman died after Pit Bull Rottweilers attacked her this weekend. She was mauled to death while riding a lawnmower in her front yard in Thorndale, east of Round Rock.
Lillian Stiles died a horrific death, attacked by six Pit Bull Rottweilers. Lillian had been riding the lawnmower in her front yard when she was attacked. A passer-by saw it, tried to help, but was bitten instead, so he ran into the house looking for Stiles' husband, Jack.
"He asked me, he said, 'Do you have a gun?' And I said, 'Yes.' I came in the house and got my 22 rifle, and as I went outside, one of the dogs was charging toward me, face-to-face, and that's when I shot that dog," Jack said.
Jack scared off the other five dogs, but it was too late. The dogs had already killed his wife of 55 years.


Because people see alot of stories about the unlawful uses of guns doesn't mean that there aren't good and lawful uses for them. Stopping law abiding people from having guns is not going to save lives.

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"no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything. You cannot conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."