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"Quicke" thinking.(Exercising The Right)
According to the December 25 St. Petersburg Times, a home intruder put a gun to the head of John Quicke of Spring Hill, Florida, ransacked his house, and stole his possessions. But Quicke got hold of his pistol and gave the fleeing intruder a going-away present--a couple of chunks of lead.
Before sunrise at 5 a.m. on Thursday, December 23, Quicke was drinking coffee in his bedroom when a masked robber brandishing a chrome-plated handgun entered the house through the open back door. The door had been left open because it was muggy.
The robber made Quicke lie on the bed while he tore apart the room looking for valuables. The robber soon found a safe in the closet and told Quicke to open it. He pointed the gun at Quicke's temple, telling him that he had 10 seconds to open the safe, implying that he would be killed if he didn't.
Because of the stress of the moment and the fact that Quicke rarely used the safe, which only contained papers, he was unable to open the safe. Quicke told the St. Petersburg Times, "I was so scared, I couldn't open that thing to save my life. I couldn't even think of the combination."
While Quicke worked at opening the safe, he tried to figure out a way to get hold of his pistol, which was in another room. When Quicke couldn't open the safe, the intruder ...
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