oh, a man brandished a .25 at my uncle in his liquor store in Miss. My uncle, a very soft spoken man of slight stature, reached behind the counter to give him the money and shot him with a single shot 10 gauge sawed off shotgun. the gun was filled with rock salt non fatal of course. the first police officer on the scene, a friend of the family, said my uncle was standing over the guy saying, "quit hollering you aint gonna die." the whole time the salt is bubbling in this guys flesh, and my uncle is talking in his calm soft voice. the officer said he had to step outside to stop laughing before he could make the arrest. this happened in the mid seventies, and was told to me by the arresting officer, before things got so out of hand with lawyers and lawsuits.
