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He awoke to a noise in the middle of the night. Was it coming from inside his San Jose home? The back patio? Bijan Moeinzadeh couldn’ttell. 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 riffl ing 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 andgood guysdon’t mixBay Area cases show weapons drawn in self-defense have made tense situations more dangerous

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49ERS PLAYOFFS 2013

WHATARUSH!49ERS IN ROUT

KAEPERNICK RACKS UP QB RECORD 181 YARDS ON THE GROUNDIN A PERFORMANCE THAT REIGNITES FANS’ SUPER BOWL DREAMS

SAN FRANCISCO 45, GREEN BAY 31

MORE 49ERS PLAYOFF COVERAGEMonte Poole: Kaepernick’s playoffdebut was one for the ages. PAGE C1

Tim Kawakami: Harbaugh proveshis acuity as he makes the right callin the playoffs — again. PAGE C1

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Colin Kaepernick’s play Saturday justified coach Jim Harbaugh’s decision to start him over Alex Smith.

By Matthias Gafnimgafni@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 commitnew crimes.

Last week , Stanworth — who killed two Pi-

STANWORTH CASE

After slaying,victims groups question paroleSome spared gas chamber by ’72ruling killed again after release

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A firsthand account: Bijan Moeinzadeh, a Navymedic, found an intruder on his porch a few yearsago. “If I felt I was under threat, I could have gone for it.”Above, he takes target practice at the FieldSports Park shooting range in San Jose. Inside: Oakland reacts to a violent Friday that leftfour people dead and has resulted in one city of-ficial calling for a state of emergency. PAGE B7

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See GUNS, Page 5

SAN FRANCISCO— Colin Kaepernick wasrunning. He was runningfast. He was running so fastSaturday night that on his56-yard touchdown sprint inthe third quarter, one of histattoos fell off at the 5-yardline. Seemed like it, anyway.

Colin Kaepernick was throw-ing. He was throwing the ball withsuch zip and accuracy, his receivers merely had to stick out their handsand — 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 45-31victory over Green Bay atCandlestick Park, even the most skeptical pessimist/hater/naysayer must begin

to think seriously about a SuperBowl trip.

And yes, the facts in those lastthree paragraphs are all intercon-

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