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By Julia Prodis Sulek and Josh Richman
Staff writers
Heawoketoanoiseinthemiddleofthenight.
Was it coming from inside his San Jose home?
The back patio? Bijan Moeinzadeh couldn’t
tell. But his instincts immediately kicked in: He
grabbed the .357 revolver from a lockbox in his
bedroom and slipped it in his pocket.
Inching toward the noise, he discovered
a stranger riffling through belongings on his
porch. The patio light and a shout scared off
the intruder. The gun never left Moeinzadeh’s
pocket, but the Navy medic who recently re-
turned from Afghanistan — and who learned
to shoot as a Boy Scout and often practices at
a San Jose firing range — said he felt safer for
having it.
“If I felt I was under threat,” Moeinzadeh,
25, said of that encounter a few years ago, “I
could have gone for it.”
With the country embroiled in a polarizing
debate over gun control after a series of mass
shootings, many gun supporters passionately
AN ISSUE OF SAFETY
Experts:
Guns and
good guys
don’t mix
Bay Area cases show weapons
drawn in self-defense have made
tense situations more dangerous
LIFESTYLE
Gym clothes: If you
look good, you feel
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49ERSPLAYOFFS2013
WHATARUSH!
49ERS IN ROUTKAEPERNICK RACKS UP QB RECORD 181 YARDS ON THE GROUND
IN A PERFORMANCE THAT REIGNITES FANS’ SUPER BOWL DREAMS
SAN FRANCISCO 45, GREEN BAY 31
MORE 49ERS PLAYOFFCOVERAGE
Monte Poole: Kaepernick’s playoff
debut was one for the ages. PAGE C1
Tim Kawakami: Harbaugh proves
his acuity as he makes the right call
in the playoffs — again. PAGE C1
Online extra: Scan this
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MARK PURDY
COLUMNIST
JOSE CARLOS FAJARDO/STAFF
Colin Kaepernick’s play Saturday justified coach Jim Harbaugh’s decision to start him over Alex Smith.
By Matthias Gafni
mgafni@bayareanewsgroup.com
Dennis Stanworth is a member of the notori-
ous class of ’72.
More than 100 death row inmates were
spared the gas chamber in 1972 after the Cali-
fornia Supreme Court ruled capital punish-
ment unconstitutional.
His classmates all got life sentences, includ-
ing the likes of serial killer Charles Manson
and Sirhan Sirhan, Robert F. Kennedy’s assas-
sin. But not all served their full sentences, and
some who were released went on to commit
new crimes.
Last week, Stanworth — who killed two Pi-
STANWORTH CASE
After slaying,
victims groups
question parole
Some spared gas chamber by ’72
ruling killed again after release
KARL MONDON/STAFF
A firsthand account: Bijan Moeinzadeh, a Navy
medic, found an intruder on his porch a few years
ago.“If I felt I was under threat, I could have gone
for it.”Above, he takes target practice at the Field
Sports Park shooting range in San Jose.
Inside: Oakland reacts to a violent Friday that left
four people dead and has resulted in one city of-
ficial calling for a state of emergency. PAGE B7
See STANWORTH, Page 15
See GUNS, Page 5
SAN FRANCISCO
— Colin Kaepernick was
running. He was running
fast. He was running so fast
Saturday night that on his
56-yard touchdown sprint in
the third quarter, one of his
tattoos fell off at the 5-yard
line. Seemed like it, anyway.
Colin Kaepernick was throw-
ing. He was throwing the ball with
such zip and accuracy, his receivers
merely had to stick out their hands
and — thwap! — the passes would
hit their mitts and stick as if they
were flies to flypaper.
The 49ers are advanc-
ing. They are advancing in
the playoffs. Impressively.
In fact, after their 45-31
victory over Green Bay at
Candlestick Park, even the
most skeptical pessimist/
hater/naysayer must begin
to think seriously about a Super
Bowl trip.
And yes, the facts in those last
three paragraphs are all intercon-
See PURDY, Page 15