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BILL CADY Word Count: 149,227 - At My Friend's Place

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Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 292<br />

The “except” part was the fact I always carried a weapon. Not just because of<br />

what I was doing, but from force of habit. I always had a switchblade in my early teen<br />

years, then a straight razor by age seventeen. For a while, most of the half year I was still<br />

in school as a junior and after, I also carried a gun.<br />

<strong>My</strong> “weapon of choice” was a .32 semiautomatic, a Davis P-32. Actually, it<br />

wasn‟t “my choice”, but “what I could get”. It was, I have to admit, better than no gun.<br />

Even better than a .22 caliber or .25 caliber, but those two aren‟t much better than fists.<br />

Neither will stop a man unless you unload the whole damned magazine or cylinder into<br />

him, and even that‟s kind of iffy.<br />

A .32 is a teeny-weeny bit better, but it most likely wouldn‟t stop some guy<br />

stoned on PCP or any other tough drug. It probably wouldn‟t even stop someone who‟s<br />

really drunk unless you scored a head shot.<br />

<strong>My</strong> piece had a total of six rounds, little tiny things, but I later recalled the way I<br />

was convinced to give it up after being shot three times with a .22, so maybe it wasn‟t<br />

completely crazy to carry it. Thankfully, I never shot anyone at least, not with that<br />

gun, I didn‟t.<br />

Still, since I even had that with me once in a while when I broke in to commit<br />

burglary, it would‟ve been an ugly felony if I‟d been caught. Robbery, as I was told,<br />

meant taking money off a person. Burglary meant taking things from a dwelling.<br />

Whether the dwelling was occupied at the time of the crime makes a monumental<br />

difference in the charges against the criminal.<br />

It‟s always better if there‟s no one present.<br />

There are degrees of burglary, and it seems mine was the worst. I was armed and<br />

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