Once the package arrived at the house, a SWAT team raided and held the mayor and his mother-in-law at gunpoint, and shot and killed his two dogs, one while it attempted to run away.
But many middle-class Brazilians, often robbed at gunpoint but rarely shot, wonder why the government proposes to disarm "honest men" while leaving criminals with their guns".By disarming the citizen you're disarming the criminal," retorts Denis Mizne of Sou da Paz ("I am for peace"), an anti-violence group in São Paulo.
I have visited South Africa and northern Uganda and met children who have been raped at gunpoint, seen their parents shot or been forced to become child soldiers.
He was stopped at gunpoint, and later shot twice.
The 911 caller who lied about being robbed at gunpoint the night Pasadena police shot and killed unarmed teenage robbery suspect Kendrec McDade agreed Monday to plead guilty to false reporting charges.
They forced a man to lie on his belly at gunpoint and then fired 10 shots into the pub, killing one and injuring two, before shooting the man on the street in his kneecaps.
According to Sergeant O'Neill, Nicolas DiBrizzi went out to the garage shortly after 9 30 a.m. on Monday and apparently encountered the gunman, who forced him at gunpoint back into the house, where shots were fired.
Despite the obvious terror such events inflict on the innocent – in this case, a Graff employee was taken out of the shop at gunpoint and passersby were panicked by shots fired into the ground – the fact is armed robbery still has the power to inspire admiration, however misplaced.
The pair were among dozens of young men in the city shot, beaten or exiled at gunpoint from the city over the last two years by the armed vigilante group.
A former USC community safety officer who was robbed at gunpoint years earlier by a man who authorities say shot and killed a Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant this week said in an interview that he feels lucky to be alive.
