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Not defenseless after all.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Margaret Johnson)(Brief article)
One normally thinks of a wheelchair-bound person as relatively defenseless because of limited mobility, but a Harlem, New York, grandmother proved that stereotype wrong.
Margaret Johnson, 57, was going to a firing range on September 8 to shoot her .357 pistol--something she has done for 25 years to relieve stress--when Deron Johnson (no relation) grabbed her around the neck, likely trying to get her necklace. Margaret described to the New York Daily News what happened next: "I was afraid. I didn't know what he was going to do. I shot him and then I called 911." Her shot hit Deron in the elbow, and he ...
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