In other news, Man shoots, kills carjacker at Texas Fried Chicken:
DGU with one death. Guy can’t even get some fried chicken in the middle of the night.
Another shooting death to celebrate!
Yay!
All you have to do is declare somebody to be a Bad Guy, and then killing him is not only justified and necessary but actually Positive Gun News.
That’s how it works, right?
The guy had his car jacked and was being beaten. Are you suggesting he should have taken further beating instead of defending himself?
Apparently, armed security being present is not enough to comfort everyone.
You don’t recall that “armed security” decided to stay outside during the Parkland school shooting while innocent kids in a “gun free zone” were slaughtered?
My objection is to a person rationalizing, even praising, the killing of another human being by declaring him to be a Bad Guy. One man in that incident committed assault and theft, but the other committed homicide. Tell us who is the Bad Guy *and why. *
Better yet, tell us how to define Positive vs. Negative Gun News in an objective, non-post-facto way.
:dubious: You were the one that bought up courthouses.
And in any case, at the meetings, there is at least one armed officer, usually more, standing there. They don’t need to enter, you don’t need to worry about them staying outside. They are standing right there.
It’s easy, the guy who is left standing gets to tell his side of the story. The dead guy doesn’t. So, obviously, the guy left standing was the good guy.
We also don’t know that this wasn’t some guy that approached the car, asking for change, and got shot for scaring the driver. We only have the driver’s story, as he remembers and tells it.
I brought up courthouses because at least they make an effort to have some amount of armed security. Unlike most schools.
But even if a courthouse or school has some security, that doesn’t necessarily mean it is enough or effective everywhere in the building on the property.
Everyone continuing this hijack go back and see previous mod instructions. I don’t have the time now but I’ll later go back and see if any warnings are needed for not following moderator instructions.
In other news, Women armed with gun, camera confront would-be burglar at residence
DGU with no injuries. Given the changing and implausible stories offered by the perpetrator, I’m going to hazard a guess that alcohol or other controlled substances were involved.
Serious question, how is this defensive gun use?
Conjecture, of course, but the intruder might not have been so cooperative in following orders to come out of the house, nor running away, if the women didn’t have a gun.
When was the 911 call placed?
Sure, but ordering someone to do something at gun point seems more like Offensive Gun Use.
Perhaps from the standpoint of someone who broke a window and went into someone else’s house. Is that the side you want to be on?
Well, they did at some point, because the Sheriff’s department found him. I don’t know anything about where this happened, but there are LOTS of places in the US where it will take a long time for police to respond to a call.
Not really. But the woman wasn’t in the house to defend herself against the intruder. She didn’t need defending against anything, since she wasn’t even home when the guy broke in.
The Villages is a sprawling high-income retirement community, much of which bans residents under 55, but all of which has a strongly conservative atmosphere. Any delay in getting to the scene would be caused by the cops having to maneuver around all the golf carts driven by hard-of-hearing residents. But it does look like this woman called her *sister *to come with *her *gun before she called the *sheriff *to come with his, doesn’t it?
70-Year-Old Woman Shoots Burglar During Home Invasion
When seconds count, police are minutes away.