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Tucson, Arizona From the April 24, 2009 Arizona Daily Star: A woman who tried to carjack a man at gunpoint outside a North Side Walgreens early Thursday was shot and wounded by the man, police said. The man called police around 12:30 a.m. to report he had just shot one of two women who tried to take his car as he waited in the pharmacy drive-through near East Grant and North Swan roads, said Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, a Tucson Police Department spokesman. Pacheco gave this account: The 26-year-old man, whose name was not released, had just left Tucson Medical Center and went to fill a prescription. When he drove back to the drugstore to check on his prescription, two women came up to his car. One was armed with a gun. The woman tried to shoot the man, but he pulled his own gun while she was trying to pull the trigger. Her gun didn't fire for an unknown reason. The man fired his gun twice. One shot grazed her head, and the other struck her in the shoulder. The woman fell to the ground, and the man took her gun away.
Tucson, Arizona From the April 24, 2009 Arizona Daily Star:
A woman who tried to carjack a man at gunpoint outside a North Side Walgreens early Thursday was shot and wounded by the man, police said.
The man called police around 12:30 a.m. to report he had just shot one of two women who tried to take his car as he waited in the pharmacy drive-through near East Grant and North Swan roads, said Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, a Tucson Police Department spokesman.
Pacheco gave this account:
The 26-year-old man, whose name was not released, had just left Tucson Medical Center and went to fill a prescription.
When he drove back to the drugstore to check on his prescription, two women came up to his car. One was armed with a gun.
The woman tried to shoot the man, but he pulled his own gun while she was trying to pull the trigger. Her gun didn't fire for an unknown reason.
The man fired his gun twice. One shot grazed her head, and the other struck her in the shoulder.
The woman fell to the ground, and the man took her gun away.
Now, someone recently was worried about how someone who is untrained would react in such a situation and was worried that their husband would somehow fail at the wrong time. If you are of the mindset that there is nothing you can do to protect yourself, maybe, but I've found that the vast majority of gun owners I know take the time to at least get out of Condition White and exist in Condition Yellow. This slight shift in the way you perceive the world allows you to get out of scrapes better than those who are always taken by surprise.
Here's a sterling example of a man whose attacker already had the advantage and yet he was still able to survive the encounter. Why did the woman's firearm fail? Who knows, but with a bit of training and practice, you can clear a jammed firearm and fire the next shot with barely any lost time at all. Most thugs do not practice and likewise are out of commission the instant their firearm is FUBAR.
This man had the wherewithal to fight back and the tools to do so effectively. Without the will though, his gun would have been worthless.