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In Harm’s Way
What would be your worst nightmare? The one that made you flick on all the lights and double check the doors? It’s probably the thought of someone in your house, someone stealthily creeping through the dark, someone with nothing but bad intentions.
For most of us this scenario will thankfully always remain just a nightmare, one in which you ask yourself “Would I be able to stand up for myself in that situation?” but never have to answer. But for some, the nightmare became a reality and they found reserves of strength and determination that kept them and their loved ones alive.
In his new book “Thank God I Had A Gun” renowned author Chris Bird has assembled fourteen everyday people who found themselves face-to-face with some of the most crazed criminals, and who found within themselves that special something that turns zeros to heroes.
There is the grandmother who was forced to defend her granddaughter in the middle of the night from a drug-crazed intruder, the mild-mannered man who was twice caught in the middle of an armed robbery in two different stores, and then a carjacking, the real estate company man who witnessed the slaying of a young policeman before the murderer pointed the gun at him and pulled the trigger, and the average Joe forced to protect his teenage daughter from two armed villains in their motel room during a road trip.
“The police cannot protect you,” says Bird, “Ordinary citizens are forced to protect themselves from criminal threat or attack more than two million times a year.” It is a sobering statistic which gives pause for thought, but in the pages of Bird’s book are a collection of people who were never given the luxury of thinking their way out – each had to act, and act fast.
Each of these individuals was forced to confront the nightmare, and each of them did so with aplomb. Their stories should be heard.
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