Posted by
netfotoj on Friday, May 09, 2008 9:24:20 PM
This true story by Massad Ayoob in the July-August 2004 issue of American Handgunner magazine is an article every young woman you know should read – and follow.
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Situation: The serial rapist has made his first and last mistake: he has chosen an armed victim tonight.
Lesson: Surprise favors the victim who knows how to fight back, and if he's close enough to take your gun, you're close enough to take his.
New Year's Eve, 1973, an hour and a half after midnight. Much of Chicago is still in revelry as Ann Leybourne, 25, returns from a party at a friend's place in nearby Northbrook. As she parks her car in front of her home at 2241 North Bissell Street, she doesn't realize she's in the focused stare of a deadly stalker.
The city's thousands of cops are looking for him, but not by name. They know him only by the sobriquet they've given the offender they seek: "The Friday Night Rapist."