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Texas Governor Shoots, Kills Coyote Who Threatened Dog
Associated Press April 28, 2010
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a message for wily coyotes out there: Don’t mess with my dog.
Perry says he needed just one shot from his laser-sighted pistol to take down a coyote that was menacing his dog during an early morning jog in an undeveloped area near Austin.
Perry told The Associated Press he sometimes carries his pistol, loaded with hollow-pointed bullets, when he jogs on trails because he’s scared of snakes — and that he’d seen coyotes in that area.
When the coyote came out of the brush toward his daughter’s labrador retriever puppy on a February jog, he charged it and shot it with his .380 Ruger pistol.
“Don’t attack my dog or you might get shot … if you’re a coyote,” Perry said.
Texas governor Rick Perry says he needed just one shot from his laser-sighted pistol to take out a coyote that was menacing his dog during an early morning jog near Austin.
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Advocates carry handguns, rifles at Va. rally
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Louisiana: Carjack victim shoots suspect to death in 9th Ward
Posted by David Mar 26
New Orleans, Louisiana
From the Times Picayune of March 25, 2010
Carjack victim shoots suspect to death in 9th WardA man was shot dead by a motorist he tried to carjack in the Lower 9th Ward late Wednesday, police said.
Joshua McElveen, 24, approached a man in a pickup truck in the 1800 block of Lamanche Street about 9:30 p.m., according to authorities. He pointed a handgun at the man and told him to open the door, NOPD spokeswoman Hilal Williams said.
The unidentified truck driver refused. Williams said the truck driver pulled out his own handgun and fired several bullets at McElveen.
McElveen, wounded, dropped his gun and fell to the ground. The would-be victim called 911, but McElveen died before paramedics could arrive to treat him, coroner’s chief investigator John Gagliano said.
According to Williams, investigators did not book the driver with a crime. Detectives plan to consult the district attorney’s office to decide whether to take any further action.
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Record numbers now licensed to pack heat
Firearms deaths fall as millions obtain permits to carry concealed guns
Brett Flashnick / for msnbc.com
Attorney Jim Corley displays some of his handguns in his Columbia, S.C., office, including the .32-caliber semiautomatic that he used to stop a holdup and kill a would-be robber.
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March 23: Marty Hayes, owner of the Firearms Academy of Seattle, talks about the training and responsibility necessary to carry a gun. msnbc.com |
Waving a chromed semiautomatic pistol, the robber pushed into the building in the bustling Five Points neighborhood of Columbia, S.C., just before 11 p.m. on April 11, 2009. “Gimme what you got!” he yelled, his gun hand trembling.
Attorney Jim Corley was one of four people in the room, the lounge area of a 12-step recovery group’s meeting hall. “He said, ‘Give me your wallet,’” Corley recalled. “So I reached around to my back pocket and gave him what was there.”
Unfortunately for the gunman, later identified as Kayson Helms, 18, of Edison, N.J., that was Corley’s tiny Kel-Tec .32, hidden in a wallet holster and loaded with a half-dozen hollow points. Corley fired once into the robber’s abdomen. The young man turned. Corley fired twice more, hitting him in the neck and again in the torso. Helms ran into the night and collapsed to die on a railroad embankment 100 feet away.
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