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Remember this name: Thomas Glenn Terry
(patriot) Oct 20, 08:13
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Remember this name: Thomas Glenn Terry. It won't be bandied quite as much as
"Mark O. Barton" over the next few weeks, but it should be. A few years ago
two armed men burst into a Shoney's restaurant in Anniston, Alabama and
herded the patrons and employees into a walk-in refrigerator, at gun point.
The robbers kept the manager behind for his assistance as they looted the
restaurant. One patron, however, also remained behind. Thomas Glenn Terry
had opted against being locked in a refrigerator, and hid from the attackers
under a table. As one of the armed robbers ransacked the cash register,
another patroled the restaurant. When he came across Mr. Terry, he pulled
his gun.
But unlike the recent victims in Atlanta, this victim was armed. Using his
own legally concealed handgun, Terry shot and killed the robber. The other
armed robber, who had had his gun trained on the manager, then opened fire
on Terry. Terry shot back, mortally wounding the second robber. The two
dozen hostages were released unharmed. Only the criminals -- who had been
armed with stolen guns by the way -- didn't make it out alive.
You probably hadn't heard of the Shoney's restaurant incident. In the
media's boundless capacity to stultify the public with sensational news
stories, they have made places like Littleton, Colorado household names. But
"Anniston, Alabama" doesn't ring a bell.
A massacre is a story. Thwarting a massacre isn't. But once you know about
Anniston, and similar averted tragedies, something will start to leap out at
you as you read news accounts of gunmen shooting scores of innocents.
Massacre stories always include a terrifying account of how the killers
proceeded from victim to victim, pausing to reload, and shooting again. Mass
murder requires that the victims be unarmed.
Thomas Glenn Terry, though heroic, is not altogether unique. Two years ago
in Pearl, Mississippi a deranged student shot and killed two of his
classmates. Fortunately, Joel Myrick, the assistant principal had a gun in
his car. He prevented the shooting from becoming a Littleton level massacre
by holding the student at gunpoint until the police arrived.
A year later, in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, a 14-year-old boy opened fire at an
eighth-grade graduation dance, killing a teacher and wounding three others.
A single murder did not become a mass murder only because a near-by
restaurant owner, James Strand, happened to be armed. As the shooter stopped
to reload, Strand immobilized the shooter, holding him for over ten minutes,
until the police appeared. A lot of killing can be accomplished in ten
minutes when none of your victims is armed.
How long did it take the police to arrive in Atlanta? Barton walked into one
office building in Atlanta shot four people dead, then left the building,
ambled across the street, entered another building, and killed at least five
more people. As in Littleton there are film clips of policemen scaling the
building's walls to rescue terrified and completely defenseless people
inside.
Most striking in the news reports of Barton's shooting spree was this: Fully
three hours after the shooting, some people were still hiding in the
building. Hiding. Waiting like pigs before the slaughter. Because none of
them was armed. None but the madman.
But for some reason, the government's response is always to disarm more
citizens. Not to disarm itself, by the way, but to disarm people other than
the police who show up 15 minutes after the shooting has begun. This isn't a
complaint about the police, they simply can't be everywhere at once. It's a
plea for more citizen guards. There may be bad citizens, but, let me remind
you, there are also bad police. Why are they the only ones don't have to
hide in their offices when madmen with guns show up? More guns will not
create more Mark Bartons. Guns can do a lot of things, like protect you from
lunatics, but they don't make you criminally insane.
Consider Mr. Barton. The initial reports have been that he killed his
children because his stock porfolio had declined. Well, that's a rational
response. Whether it was his stocks or his wife or the weather -- he killed
his children. This is a madman. In the absence of a gun, he could have used
an axe, a bomb, or a machette.
One of the most efficient murder sprees this century was accomplished NOT
with guns, but with machettes.
Madmen in Rwanda murdered almost one million people in under four months.
If only Thomas Glenn Terry had been there.
(c) 1999 Ann Coulter
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John/az
"The middle of the road between the extremes of good and evil, is evil. When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden, it's yellow..." RKBA!
[This message has been edited by John/az2 (edited October 20, 1999).]
Remember this name: Thomas Glenn Terry
(patriot) Oct 20, 08:13
Please share this as seems necessary.
------------------------------------
Remember this name: Thomas Glenn Terry. It won't be bandied quite as much as
"Mark O. Barton" over the next few weeks, but it should be. A few years ago
two armed men burst into a Shoney's restaurant in Anniston, Alabama and
herded the patrons and employees into a walk-in refrigerator, at gun point.
The robbers kept the manager behind for his assistance as they looted the
restaurant. One patron, however, also remained behind. Thomas Glenn Terry
had opted against being locked in a refrigerator, and hid from the attackers
under a table. As one of the armed robbers ransacked the cash register,
another patroled the restaurant. When he came across Mr. Terry, he pulled
his gun.
But unlike the recent victims in Atlanta, this victim was armed. Using his
own legally concealed handgun, Terry shot and killed the robber. The other
armed robber, who had had his gun trained on the manager, then opened fire
on Terry. Terry shot back, mortally wounding the second robber. The two
dozen hostages were released unharmed. Only the criminals -- who had been
armed with stolen guns by the way -- didn't make it out alive.
You probably hadn't heard of the Shoney's restaurant incident. In the
media's boundless capacity to stultify the public with sensational news
stories, they have made places like Littleton, Colorado household names. But
"Anniston, Alabama" doesn't ring a bell.
A massacre is a story. Thwarting a massacre isn't. But once you know about
Anniston, and similar averted tragedies, something will start to leap out at
you as you read news accounts of gunmen shooting scores of innocents.
Massacre stories always include a terrifying account of how the killers
proceeded from victim to victim, pausing to reload, and shooting again. Mass
murder requires that the victims be unarmed.
Thomas Glenn Terry, though heroic, is not altogether unique. Two years ago
in Pearl, Mississippi a deranged student shot and killed two of his
classmates. Fortunately, Joel Myrick, the assistant principal had a gun in
his car. He prevented the shooting from becoming a Littleton level massacre
by holding the student at gunpoint until the police arrived.
A year later, in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, a 14-year-old boy opened fire at an
eighth-grade graduation dance, killing a teacher and wounding three others.
A single murder did not become a mass murder only because a near-by
restaurant owner, James Strand, happened to be armed. As the shooter stopped
to reload, Strand immobilized the shooter, holding him for over ten minutes,
until the police appeared. A lot of killing can be accomplished in ten
minutes when none of your victims is armed.
How long did it take the police to arrive in Atlanta? Barton walked into one
office building in Atlanta shot four people dead, then left the building,
ambled across the street, entered another building, and killed at least five
more people. As in Littleton there are film clips of policemen scaling the
building's walls to rescue terrified and completely defenseless people
inside.
Most striking in the news reports of Barton's shooting spree was this: Fully
three hours after the shooting, some people were still hiding in the
building. Hiding. Waiting like pigs before the slaughter. Because none of
them was armed. None but the madman.
But for some reason, the government's response is always to disarm more
citizens. Not to disarm itself, by the way, but to disarm people other than
the police who show up 15 minutes after the shooting has begun. This isn't a
complaint about the police, they simply can't be everywhere at once. It's a
plea for more citizen guards. There may be bad citizens, but, let me remind
you, there are also bad police. Why are they the only ones don't have to
hide in their offices when madmen with guns show up? More guns will not
create more Mark Bartons. Guns can do a lot of things, like protect you from
lunatics, but they don't make you criminally insane.
Consider Mr. Barton. The initial reports have been that he killed his
children because his stock porfolio had declined. Well, that's a rational
response. Whether it was his stocks or his wife or the weather -- he killed
his children. This is a madman. In the absence of a gun, he could have used
an axe, a bomb, or a machette.
One of the most efficient murder sprees this century was accomplished NOT
with guns, but with machettes.
Madmen in Rwanda murdered almost one million people in under four months.
If only Thomas Glenn Terry had been there.
(c) 1999 Ann Coulter
------------------
John/az
"The middle of the road between the extremes of good and evil, is evil. When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden, it's yellow..." RKBA!
[This message has been edited by John/az2 (edited October 20, 1999).]