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In Queens, New York, Timothy Pastuck was called a hero for shooting and wounding a man who was beating another with a baseball bat. Without Pastuck’s action, the victim would probably have been killed.

In Norcross, Georgia, a former boyfriend burst into the deli where Sharonda McMurray was working and began stabbing her. Dennis Benton was also cut when he jumped the boyfriend. Then Myron Petro got his gun from his car as the assailant left, then returned to renew his attack. Petro shot and killed the attacker when he was, himself attacked.

In Oakland, California, an 81-year-old man was attacked in his apartment by a man who followed him in the door. While being savagely beaten, he managed to get his gun and wound his attacker, saving himself from being beaten to death.

Floridian John T. Pride was using a pay phone when a 16-year-old bandit tried to rob him at gunpoint. Pride, who is legally armed, shot and killed his assailant, marking the eighth time in 18 months that a criminal had been killed by his intended victim in Central Florida, which proves that Florida’s decision to allow its citizens to be armed was a good one.

By Ray Thomas