Girl shoots rapist: "A 16-year-old girl opened fire on her alleged rapist in Tijuana on Tuesday. The shooting took place in the La Presa district. The girl told authorities she shot her cousin's husband four times when he entered her home. The teen said she didn't tell anyone after the 39-year-old man raped her two weeks ago. She told authorities that she was alone when he tried to go into her house Tuesday. The girl reportedly used her father's gun to shoot the man, who remains in the hospital Wednesday. There is no word on his condition."




Oppression by nonsense: "'It is not about putting a barrier between persons and their statutory rights,' Falls Church [VA] City Manager Dan McKeever explained to the City Council Monday about his new policy toward individuals bearing guns in public places. ... McKeever devised the policy in reaction to a new state law prohibiting local jurisdictions from prohibiting the right of individuals to carry guns into public buildings. He said it was designed simply to clarify the intent of an individual who carries out that statutory right. It calls on City employees to notify the police whenever a person is encountered who is carrying a firearm, and that police should interview the person to assess his or her intentions. 'It's a common sense way to ask police to evaluate the reasons for a person to be there with a firearm,' he said, noting that an individual would not be required to cooperate."




BEAR DANGER: REALISM PAYS OFF

I am sure the anti-gun nuts would say he should have called the police instead

"Muldoon resident Gary Boyd was walking his boxer puppy Wednesday afternoon along the popular "tank" trail in the Chugach foothills north of Campbell Creek when he heard something big crashing through the brush behind him. "I thought it was a moose, but then I saw it was too low for a moose," said Boyd, a former Army helicopter pilot and retired maintenance chief. "I just had time to pull my pistol and spin around."

A massive male brown bear erupted from the forest less than 20 feet away, claws tearing up hard-packed earth as it charged toward the 57-year-old . The bear, later estimated at 750 pounds, had apparently been guarding the remains of a moose taken in a Fort Richardson bow hunt in the woods about 75 feet off the gravel track used by hikers, bikers and dog walkers.

"I fired the first shot, and I aimed at its shoulders," Boyd said. "When the first shot didn't faze it, I fired the second time, and it turned into the ditch, and I shot three more times, and it went down." With one shot remaining in his .44-caliber Magnum revolver, Boyd called Anchorage police on his cell phone and walked out a trail to the end of Klutina Street to meet Alaska state trooper Kim Babcock. It was about 12:30 p.m.

Babcock and Boyd returned to the scene and found the bear still alive but unable to move. Babcock finished the animal with a shotgun slug to the heart, while Boyd shot it in the head. The Alaska Bureau of Wildlife Enforcement trooper said she believed Boyd acted appropriately in defense of his life and was glad he had been armed and had the skill to hit the animal with so little time at such close range....

Boyd said he thought the bear had been reacting at first to his dog, a 22-month-old pup named Katie, as she ran ahead on the trail. Both Babcock and Boyd said they were amazed that someone else hadn't been attacked earlier in the day. It had been a big, mature animal, measuring 81/2 feet, a boar in its prime. "We hadn't had that bear dead within three minutes when 12 cross-country runners from the high school came by," Babcock said. "I'm just amazed that he didn't get somebody before me," Boyd added. "I see so many people back here that don't carry a weapon. Someone would have gotten hurt back here or killed."

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