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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:59:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jim Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Remember this name: Thomas Glenn Terry
By Ann Coulter
08/13/1999
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.
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