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Bearing Arms: Stories from the Times-Dispatch
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Readers react to firearm series
Having gun not seen as panacea
Bill Jenkins doesn't buy the argument that if his son had carried a gun, he would be alive today. William B. Jenkins was 16 on Aug. 12, 1997, the day he died at a Bullets restaurant where he worked. He was too young to legally have a gun, so it wasn't possible for him to defend himself with one. Full Story >> http://timesdispatch.com/news/bearingarms/MGBVQT7841D.html
No remorse for killings
Jeweler recalls day of robbery
Gary Baker was face to face with a masked man holding a .45-caliber handgun, and for just a split second, he didn't know what to do. He thought that maybe he was seeing things or that someone was playing some kind of a joke. Full Story >> http://timesdispatch.com/news/bearingarms/MGBHYGCU21D.html
Display of gun repelled intruders
Boater says shooting threat saved two lives
James and Linda Jones were on the first day of their vacation on July 5, 1994, sleeping in the aft cabin of their 24-foot boat, Ickey Poo II. Full Story >> http://timesdispatch.com/news/bearingarms/MGBYP7WC11D.html
These dogs not mens' best friends
Travis Fox was standing in his own driveway, facing a huge dog that was snarling and baring its teeth and bearing down on him. The dog's owners, Fox's neighbors, had warned him that he should stay away from the dog, which they said was unpredictable and dangerous. Full Story >> http://timesdispatch.com/news/bearingarms/MGBR4A3ZZ0D.html
Market owner tried negotiating
Then he chased robber and fired
R.E. Watkinson had just spent four or five minutes looking down the barrel of a gun and trying to talk the young man out of robbing him. The man had approached the cash register after wandering around the store for about five minutes and talking on a cell phone. Full Story >> http://timesdispatch.com/news/bearingarms/MGB4A0MJY0D.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Readers react to firearm series
Having gun not seen as panacea
Bill Jenkins doesn't buy the argument that if his son had carried a gun, he would be alive today. William B. Jenkins was 16 on Aug. 12, 1997, the day he died at a Bullets restaurant where he worked. He was too young to legally have a gun, so it wasn't possible for him to defend himself with one. Full Story >> http://timesdispatch.com/news/bearingarms/MGBVQT7841D.html
No remorse for killings
Jeweler recalls day of robbery
Gary Baker was face to face with a masked man holding a .45-caliber handgun, and for just a split second, he didn't know what to do. He thought that maybe he was seeing things or that someone was playing some kind of a joke. Full Story >> http://timesdispatch.com/news/bearingarms/MGBHYGCU21D.html
Display of gun repelled intruders
Boater says shooting threat saved two lives
James and Linda Jones were on the first day of their vacation on July 5, 1994, sleeping in the aft cabin of their 24-foot boat, Ickey Poo II. Full Story >> http://timesdispatch.com/news/bearingarms/MGBYP7WC11D.html
These dogs not mens' best friends
Travis Fox was standing in his own driveway, facing a huge dog that was snarling and baring its teeth and bearing down on him. The dog's owners, Fox's neighbors, had warned him that he should stay away from the dog, which they said was unpredictable and dangerous. Full Story >> http://timesdispatch.com/news/bearingarms/MGBR4A3ZZ0D.html
Market owner tried negotiating
Then he chased robber and fired
R.E. Watkinson had just spent four or five minutes looking down the barrel of a gun and trying to talk the young man out of robbing him. The man had approached the cash register after wandering around the store for about five minutes and talking on a cell phone. Full Story >> http://timesdispatch.com/news/bearingarms/MGB4A0MJY0D.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878