in 1984 on christmas day, two men from pensacola, florida, fire bombed an abortion clinic in that city. they were convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison. in 1993, another pensacola resident named michael griffin assassinated a doctor who worked at a different pensacola clinic that provided abortions. the man who was killed was dr. david gunn. a little more than a year after that in 1994, the site of the other fire bombed clinic in pensacola was visited by an antiabortion activist named paul hill. paul hill shot and killed another doctor who provided abortions in pensacola. dr. john britaton. yesterday on the first day of 2012, that same clinic in pensacola was gutted by fire. nobody was injured. the fire apparently happened after midnight on new year s eve. the building was reportedly burned as if from the inside out in a fire being investigated by the state fire marshal.