A Disabled Veteran And A .45 Handgun
BY Herschel Smith
10 years ago
Sixty-eight-year-old Joseph Sapienza suspects the men who attempted to break into his Gastonia home Thursday night thought he would be an easy target because he’s disabled and uses a walker.
But after scaring away the would-be thieves, Sapienza taped a note to his door, in which he attempted to make it clear that his trigger finger works just fine.
“(If) you try to break in my house again, I will be waiting on you,” reads the note, which was still there Friday afternoon. “Enter at your own risk.”
Sapienza, a Marine Corps veteran who served four years in Vietnam, was watching television in his bed at 7:42 p.m. at his home on Davis Avenue. He heard someone prying off the lock and pulling the nails to the latch out of his front door.
He grabbed his .45-caliber handgun, put it in a holster on his walker and began shuffling toward the sound. He flipped a hallway light on, yelled out to announce he was armed, and yanked open the door to see two men wearing ski masks.
They jumped off his porch and practically tripped over one another trying to flee, Sapienza said.
“It was like a keystone cops scene,” he said. “When they saw the .45, one ran one way up the street, and the other went the other way.”
This is truly a heart-warming story, like sitting on a late evening in front of the fire with a glass of fine liquor beside your dog. Now let’s hear from the anti-gun nuts. “A gun in the home is no protection …”
On December 13, 2014 at 1:12 pm, Ned Weatherby said:
May not be very mobile, but has a gun and knows how to use it. The fact that he has a holster for his walker indicates that he’s thought this through.
Some apparent “victims” refuse to be. Perhaps the thugs should have chosen a Bloomberg minion.