PHOTO: "There was this hatchet coming right for my face...." [View All]

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Thank you, George W. Bush, for uniting us. Thank you, Falwell and Robertson and Limbaugh and Coulter. Thank you, Dobson and Santorum and Cheney and Phelps. Thank you for planting the seeds, they are coming to fruition.
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Perry, 52, was shot and hit with a hatchet in a hate crime at a gay bar. There's a nationwide manhunt for the teenage suspect. Perry was one of three people attacked Wednesday night while simply watching a game of pool. The suspect, Perry said, never uttered a word. Then, Perry felt the sharp pain of a hatchet.

"I came so close to being completely paralyzed or being dead," he said.

The attack left Perry with a hatchet scar on his face. A bullet shot through and out his back, just missing his spine. Only days after the attack at Puzzles, he's alive to tell the story.

"And when I turned around, there was this hatchet coming right for my face and it just came right into my face on the right side," said Perry. "And within -- I would say, no more than five seconds -- I heard a gunshot. I felt a sensation in my back. I smelled the gun powder, and I'm like, 'I think I've been hit.'"

The suspect was Jacob Robida, 18, who police say targeted the gay bar.