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just a little more info on this for you ANTI SELF DEFENSE FOLKS
From anotherfirearms list...
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I finally have the documentation on the fathers statements from both the
Fresno Bee and the Modesto Bee. The link below is to the Full story in the
Modesto paper. This is causing quite a stir in our area, the premier talk
radio station in the central valley had John Lott on today and has John
Carpenter (the slain kids' Dad) scheduled to be on in a couple of days. http://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,190742,00.html
"This case is far from over," said their father, John Carpenter, from the
church pulpit.
And he implied that the two children might be alive if gun laws were
different. "From the White House to the outhouse, why are you taking away
handguns?"
He said there was a gun in the house that the older sisters knew how to
use, "but I had to put it away in a supposedly safe place. The only thing I
forgot to put a lock on was my pitchfork."
{ The above link is to the full story in the Modesto Bee. The link below is
to a similar story in the Fresno paper.}
http://www.fresnobee.com/localnews/story/0,1724,190782,00.html
[ Their father, John, spoke about the two children, his voice breaking:
"Words can't describe how I feel right now."
He talked about waking up to the sounds of his wife weeping. Carpenter also
said he had a gun at his house that he kept locked away from his children
because he feared government laws.
"I didn't put a lock on my pitchfork," he said. ]
[The two youngest of the five Carpenter children were rarely apart, family
members said. If you saw one, the other was not far behind.
It seemed fitting, then, that they were buried in a single casket. They lay
cradled in each other's arms, dressed in their cowboy clothes. Their cowboy
hats -- Ashley's white and John William's black -- sat inside the veiled,
open casket. A roll of Certs lay on the boy's chest.
"They didn't live in vain," the children's father said. "They marked our
lives for the rest of our lives."
John Carpenter pleaded with the crowd of nearly 1,000 at Apostolic
Tabernacle United Pentecostal Church to "start living like my little
daughter Ashley did."
She sacrificed her life for others, said the Rev. Tom Driscoll, a family
friend. He described the way the feisty girl wrapped her arms around her
killer's legs and then yelled to her sisters: "Go! Get away!"
"Ashley was a hero in everything she did," the Rev. Ron Hatley said during
his eulogy. "That was her nature to face a challenge. å One week ago, she
was confronted with another challenge and, once again, she was the best at
what she did."
She suffered more than 100 stab wounds -- some of them post-mortem -- as
she fended off Bruce, 27, while her three older sisters escaped. ]
Meplat KE6NKR NRA Life
Take not lightly liberty
To have it you must live it
And like love, don't you see
To keep it you must give it
just a little more info on this for you ANTI SELF DEFENSE FOLKS
From anotherfirearms list...
======
I finally have the documentation on the fathers statements from both the
Fresno Bee and the Modesto Bee. The link below is to the Full story in the
Modesto paper. This is causing quite a stir in our area, the premier talk
radio station in the central valley had John Lott on today and has John
Carpenter (the slain kids' Dad) scheduled to be on in a couple of days. http://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,190742,00.html
"This case is far from over," said their father, John Carpenter, from the
church pulpit.
And he implied that the two children might be alive if gun laws were
different. "From the White House to the outhouse, why are you taking away
handguns?"
He said there was a gun in the house that the older sisters knew how to
use, "but I had to put it away in a supposedly safe place. The only thing I
forgot to put a lock on was my pitchfork."
{ The above link is to the full story in the Modesto Bee. The link below is
to a similar story in the Fresno paper.}
http://www.fresnobee.com/localnews/story/0,1724,190782,00.html
[ Their father, John, spoke about the two children, his voice breaking:
"Words can't describe how I feel right now."
He talked about waking up to the sounds of his wife weeping. Carpenter also
said he had a gun at his house that he kept locked away from his children
because he feared government laws.
"I didn't put a lock on my pitchfork," he said. ]
[The two youngest of the five Carpenter children were rarely apart, family
members said. If you saw one, the other was not far behind.
It seemed fitting, then, that they were buried in a single casket. They lay
cradled in each other's arms, dressed in their cowboy clothes. Their cowboy
hats -- Ashley's white and John William's black -- sat inside the veiled,
open casket. A roll of Certs lay on the boy's chest.
"They didn't live in vain," the children's father said. "They marked our
lives for the rest of our lives."
John Carpenter pleaded with the crowd of nearly 1,000 at Apostolic
Tabernacle United Pentecostal Church to "start living like my little
daughter Ashley did."
She sacrificed her life for others, said the Rev. Tom Driscoll, a family
friend. He described the way the feisty girl wrapped her arms around her
killer's legs and then yelled to her sisters: "Go! Get away!"
"Ashley was a hero in everything she did," the Rev. Ron Hatley said during
his eulogy. "That was her nature to face a challenge. å One week ago, she
was confronted with another challenge and, once again, she was the best at
what she did."
She suffered more than 100 stab wounds -- some of them post-mortem -- as
she fended off Bruce, 27, while her three older sisters escaped. ]
Meplat KE6NKR NRA Life
Take not lightly liberty
To have it you must live it
And like love, don't you see
To keep it you must give it