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Article: CITIZENS TURN TO THE GUN SURVEY: MANY FAVOR JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE OVER VICTIMIZATION.(FRONT)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- January 6, 2001
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Byline: JOHN HOPKINS, THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
PORTSMOUTH -- An armed 15-year-old boy, who broke into a Portsmouth home in June, is shot in the chest by the homeowner and chased off.
In Norfolk, a 60-year-old man who has been mugged twice, comes home last summer and fatally shoots an intruder in his bathroom.
Throughout the country, hundreds of law-abiding citizens are taking up arms, refusing to be victims. The number of Virginia residents with permits to carry concealed weapons is approaching 100,000. But is an armed community necessarily a safe one?
``Yes,'' said Maria Heil, a spokeswoman for Second Amendment Sisters Inc., a grass-roots, ...