Kentucky Rifle
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This happened before carry laws were enacted.
My room-mate from school was a fine man. He was a good shot. We were on the rifle team and we spent many hours at the range. He married a wonderful woman. She quickly became a good friend also. They were invited to come to Florida to visit some of her relatives. It was their first vacation and they had been married less than a year. They decided to drive from Richmond Ky. to Key West Fla. They were excited about the trip, so instead of stopping at a motel for the night, they decided to drive straight through. Early in the morning while on the road a pickup truck started ramming them from behind. The truck forced my friends' smaller car off the side of the road. My friend got out of his car to try and talk to the truck driver but as he walked up to the truck the drunk, angry driver jumped out and slit his throat with a hunting knife. He then sped away. My friend fell on the hood of his car. His wife told me he died in about three or four minutes. This happened near the Jonesboro Ga. exit on the highway. The driver of the truck was turned in to the police the next day by his own father after he had found my friends' blood on the truck. The killer was executed after years on death row. I don't know for sure if the .38 caliber Smith&Wesson that my friend had left at home because he knew it was illegal to carry across state lines would have made any difference as to the outcome, but I think that it would have.
I posted this true story in hopes someone could use it as an example when trying to convince the anti-gun crowd of the truth of the matter. However, when I told this story to a group of anti's they said. "So what...even if your friend had his gun with him the result would have been the same, one dead person." They wouldn't be convinced of the difference between legitimate self-defense and cold-blooded murder.
Will
My room-mate from school was a fine man. He was a good shot. We were on the rifle team and we spent many hours at the range. He married a wonderful woman. She quickly became a good friend also. They were invited to come to Florida to visit some of her relatives. It was their first vacation and they had been married less than a year. They decided to drive from Richmond Ky. to Key West Fla. They were excited about the trip, so instead of stopping at a motel for the night, they decided to drive straight through. Early in the morning while on the road a pickup truck started ramming them from behind. The truck forced my friends' smaller car off the side of the road. My friend got out of his car to try and talk to the truck driver but as he walked up to the truck the drunk, angry driver jumped out and slit his throat with a hunting knife. He then sped away. My friend fell on the hood of his car. His wife told me he died in about three or four minutes. This happened near the Jonesboro Ga. exit on the highway. The driver of the truck was turned in to the police the next day by his own father after he had found my friends' blood on the truck. The killer was executed after years on death row. I don't know for sure if the .38 caliber Smith&Wesson that my friend had left at home because he knew it was illegal to carry across state lines would have made any difference as to the outcome, but I think that it would have.
I posted this true story in hopes someone could use it as an example when trying to convince the anti-gun crowd of the truth of the matter. However, when I told this story to a group of anti's they said. "So what...even if your friend had his gun with him the result would have been the same, one dead person." They wouldn't be convinced of the difference between legitimate self-defense and cold-blooded murder.
Will