A CASE OF SELF DEFENSE - Tuesday 06-17-08

Hello again…

 

Busy week ahead? We have one. It’s my wife Barbara’s 60^th HS graduation class reunion. Yes… the New York Times may not take note of it… but we hope the Easton Express covering all the news that’s fit to print in Easton PA… along with that in Wilson Borough, Palmer Township and all the little dells in the Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton area. I’m hoping we can make it through the crush of wheel chairs and walkers – just kidding. Barbara had a class in 1948 of about 150. My high school graduating class a year later was 20 in south central Virginia – before they started consolidating rural high schools.  We didn’t have enough guys to make up a football team – much less one that could actually win. But enough of that.

 

This seems to be the season when we were often on the road as a young family. School is out… we liked to go camping and in the early years had to make do with the camping equipment that was much more like home-made… and not the lightweight things you can easily carry from your local Wal-Mart. It was a lovely time with lots of memories – mostly good!  The kids got to spend time with Grandma and Grandpa… which they loved… I’m not so sure about Grandma and Grandpa.

 

In any case I’m running some back numbers of JUST A MINUTE this week to make it a bit easier to get away. I hope you’ll like what you hear. Perhaps it’ll be a welcome break from most of the bleaks or battered news.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

PS – Oh yes… I’d forgotten. I can’t seem to get rid of the gremlins that mess up my audio links – so we’re going back to the old way of posting them here… but we’ll hold on to posting the script also.

 

http://www.jebcovoice.net/audio/jama06-17-08.mp3

 

http://www.jebcovoice.net/scripts/jamt06-17-08.doc

 

 

 

“JUST A MINUTE”

A CASE OF SELF DEFENSE

Just A Minute – Here’s a story we ran almost two years ago.

George Dickert - 44 - was at home in Greenville, South Carolina on a July Sunday evening about eleven -- his wife was rocking their three year old. Suddenly thugs waving a gun using vile language, broke into his home bent on robbery. George resisted. His 13 year old son – went to a bedroom, retrieved a gun, and returned with the hammer cocked. His Dad was swinging at four assailants.

“I’ll shoot!” said the son. They fled.  The senior Dickert sent four shots after them to make sure they got the message.

Shortly, Greenville police found young men between 16 and 20 breathing heavily.

George said he’d been instructing his son about guns since he was six, “To take away his curiosity,” Dickert added.

Some national media have reported communities where laws have been strengthened and homeowners prepare to defend themselves, there’s a significant decrease in crime.

Maybe it’s not for everyone – but the robbers don’t know who’s prepared and who isn’t. Besides making sense, it seems to level the playing field.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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