Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. reporters, “He feared for his life, and if he’s in fear for his life, then he has a right to defend himself, even if it means severe bodily injury or death.” It was clear to any impartial observer the Marine had righteously acted to save not only his own life, but that of the store manager as well. The manager’s testimony supported his account of the incident, and so did the Subway’s security video cameras. No charges were filed against the Marine. To the best of my knowledge at this time, no lawsuit has been filed against him either. The general public’s reaction was overwhelmingly positive. South Floridians are tired of violent crime. It quickly came out the men the Marine had shot both had criminals pasts, and only their friends and relatives seemed to have a problem with the outcome, with some telling reporters it was “murder” and they couldn’t believe someone could legally “just shoot down” Arrindell and Gadson. The everpopular phrase, “They were just turning their lives around” was heard repeatedly from those quarters. one police spokesperson described the marine’s response as “textbook.” The Marine did not want publicity. He had done what he’d had to do. He turned down countless print and electronic media requests for interviews. The article you are reading is the first one in which he has told his own story. It is widely perceived as conventional wisdom among cops and others that when the criminals herd you from the crime scene itself to a secondary scene, it’s a big red flag indicating an intent to murder the victims/witnesses. This is exactly what went through the Marine’s mind, and what prompted him to act when he was herded into the rest room, and then ordered to the floor into what is reasonably construable as an execution position. There are, said the Marine in his exclusive explanation for Handgunner readers, armed robberies occurring regularly in South Florida “where the robber shoots the victims between 10- and 20-percent of the time even if they surrender the money — as I did, without resistance.” Adds the Marine, “Whether it be the six ladies in the Lane Bryant store or thousands of other cases across the country, when the robbers have all the money from the customer 72 WWW.AMERICANHANDGUNNER.COM • JULY/AUGUST 2009 From Behind The Gun