re: How Many Here Carry a Handgun? - Car or Home or Refuse Owning

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Don't need one. Not a coward or a wimp. Got guns in my sleeves

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Some of you may remember "Buck" Morris and his repair shop under the Perkins Road Overpass, now Chelsea's Cafe. I was there when a lady outside Bet-R Grocery across the street yelled for help. We saw a small boy running with her purse. Buck was a mountain of a man, several inches over 6 feet, around 300lbs., neither coward nor wimp. He threw down his tools, said something like "I've had enough", jumped in his van to help the lady and pursued the boy who was now heading back over Perkins. Buck caught up with the boy on St. Rose near Reymond Ave. Buck got out to chase the kid, the boy turned, and from at least 40 feet away fired a single shot from a little .22 caliber pistol... on most days a .22 may not even kill a cat but fate had the tiny bullet hit Buck directly in his heart... he was probably dead when he hit the ground. Buck had a wife and young children. The boy, probably under 70 lbs. then, got juvenile life and was released at 18 y.o. ...after killing a man and destroying a family. Just don't make the mistake of having false sense of security believing your muscles and bravery can always protect others, or even yourself.