Man takes cash register from Walmart, tries to carjack 2 people at knifepoint
Tries to hijack two vehicles. Both drivers were armed.
Christopher Raymond Hill: “Is there anybody in this town who does not have a gun?!?”
The carjacker apparently.
Positive news indeed.
Man shoots alleged robbers outside DeKalb shopping center, police say
A developing story, as they say, but as of this hour one that would go on the positive side of the ledger:
Geez, you get mugged coming out of a grocery store. WTH?
Glad the victim was able to defend himself and his wife.
It came out positive for the crime victims but with four armed people “exchanging gunfire” in a grocery store parking lot, there are a lot of negative ways this could have turned out. In this case the crime victims were lucky but this anecdote is not an argument that you should always shoot your way out of a robbery.
There are negative ways for it to come out if the victims hadn’t defended themselves, too.
From other stories on the link, Atlanta seems to be quite crime ridden.
Armed bystanders shoot carjacker.
Regards,
Shodan
The police were already there and some vigilante yahoos jumped on the opportunity? How is that positive, pray tell?
From the linked article:
It wasn’t some “vigilante yahoo”, it was the owner of the car being carjacked. You don’t think the criminals would have continued to try to elude the police, likely driving in a way that would have been a danger to all around? Do you know that the owner of the car knew the police were on the carjacker’s tail?
From the Washington Post: A 25-year-old New Zealand man had been communicating over the Internet with a 14-year-old girl from Virginia, although the girl was reportedly trying to break off communications with him. The man, Troy George Skinner, flew to the United States and showed up at the girl’s house; he had bought a pocket knife, and also had pepper spray and duct tape. When Skinner tried to break down down a door, the mother warned him she had a gun; when he succeeded in breaking a glass door, the mother shot him twice.
Skinner is expected to survive and is facing charges of “breaking and entering with a deadly weapon, with intent to commit a serious felony”.
From Time magazine: A woman reportedly shot and seriously wounded a man after he tried to steal her SUV, with her two children inside it.
Don’t mess with a mama bear with cubs!
The age of the downloadable gun formally begins: Defense Distributed
Really more of a first amendment victory, but since there isn’t a first amendment thread and this is about guns I’ll put this here.
Which part of that are you calling positive?
I thought this was the more significant and potentially better news of the settlement: