Posted on 01/28/2005 5:41:03 AM PST by Pharmboy
Rick Dembow January 28, 2005 -- A stunning 28-year-old actress died in her fiancé's arms yesterday after a Lower East Side thug answered her challenge — "What are you going to do, shoot us?" — by firing a single bullet into her chest, cops said. Nicole DuFresne, of Brooklyn, had just left a trendy bar with her fiancé and another couple when they were confronted at about 3:15 a.m. by four muggers — two men and two women — at the corner of Clinton and Rivington streets, police said. One of the thugs, who was carrying a gun, demanded money. DuFresne's fiancé, Jeffrey Sparks, 28, not seeing the mugger had a gun and not taking the request seriously, tried to push past the man.
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Sorry but you are wrong. It works about 3 million times a year in the US according to the FBI report. You might want to read it. Also, it worked for me, I stopped a mugger with my carry piece. The carrier has the real element of surprise as the criminal has no idea you are armed and if you are being mugged, it normally will not be in a crowded area. Anytime a criminal has you under a gun you are in danger of dying at his whim. If you are carrying you wait your chance, give him the money and then draw to save your life. Store owners do it everyday and they are being covered by the robber also.
Didn't draw when you should have? Your fault and does not prove concealed carry doesn't work, it proves you don't have the guts to use a weapon when you need it.
"Whatchoo have to do that for?"
Since Appalachian Redneck is my first language, I may have misunderstood you. ;-)
OK guys, I got your correction. My mistake, it was the lower east side, not Brooklyn. However, from my days visiting starving artist buddies from college in Alphabet City, you can stray one block over there and find yourself in no-man's land.
Its essentially the same as parts of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Gentrification next to trepidation. I can take care of my own, and even I knew that straying off the avenues over there at night (if you had to be there at all), was not a good idea. This was only two years ago, so I can't imagine all that much has changed.
Yes...I do when I come across them.
My prayers for Sparks and Nicole's family.
A point which bears repeating.
Gee, I can come up with only 44.
Don't carry a gun if you're afraid to use it....the second he was hit he should have capped the bitch.
Sounds like she was drunk. In that case, what good would her carrying a gun have done?
New Yorkers don't want this (the majority anyway). They want less freedom, more gun control and deep down they want to be part of Quebec which can make them French and Canadian at the same time.
To say nothing of the thug still being at large and there are potential future victims down the road. It's a civic duty to neutralize a criminal.
Think you're right...The thug was obviously an NRA member. /sarcasm
They always find a way to turn the table.
Sad. I won't live in the city.
In NYC that would most likely be 10 years with the opportunity for parole in 5. Meanwhile the young lady will remain dead, and liberal or not all of her hopes and dreams were stripped away by this piece of human garbage.
In Texas or Ga he would end up with the needle. Florida he'd ride old sparky, but NY will coddle him and turn him back on the streets in a few years (if they even bother to find him at all, after all it wasn't a cop he killed, just an ordinary citizen - not like she's part of the precious government)
Go enough! :)
Rednecks and Hillbillies run in my family too!
Also, when I carried, I never drank to drunkeness.
Then you are truly a fortunate son!! Read "Born Fighting" by James Webb former SecNav.
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