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In reply to the discussion: Customer shoots two armed robbers at Internet cafe. [View all]shadowrider
(4,941 posts)28. Can you prove, with links, you have two relatives who are cops?
Otherwise some will assume they're NRA backing Weaver lovers who have a dash of Zimmerman thrown in.
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two dumbass nineteen y/o did a very stupid, stupid thing. a fucking ball bat!
Tuesday Afternoon
Jul 2012
#2
I wonder if they were high on drugs or trying to get money for drugs. where are their parents?
Tuesday Afternoon
Jul 2012
#4
Why would I carry a can of pork and beans and a bicycle wheel into an Internet Cafe?
rl6214
Jul 2012
#56
No, actually hoyt mentioned it first in a thread weeks ago, I'm just replaying it
rl6214
Jul 2012
#58
Well maybe he should have only shot the baseball-bat-carrying robber once.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2012
#48
It is ridiculous that in 2012 in a supposedly modern nation these sorts of things still happen
4th law of robotics
Jul 2012
#6
Oh I read article -- guy had inoperable gun, another a bat -- cowboy out to save his ass opened fire
Hoyt
Jul 2012
#14
Shiite, even Weaver -- with "I gotta go to the bathroom, bad" -- does better than that.
Hoyt
Jul 2012
#78
One shooter, if you had been there, would you have opened up with that many misses endangering
Hoyt
Jul 2012
#77
So now you do remote sensing, too? I've read about people like you:
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2012
#87
Good, go blasting away in the same situation. Responsible gunners would question your shooting,
Hoyt
Jul 2012
#96
You weren't there either. All you know is gun involved, so you are happy whatever gun toter did.
Hoyt
Jul 2012
#100
"He perceived a deadly threat." Well, Permatex, maybe he was wrong -- gun lovers are many times.
Hoyt
Jul 2012
#103
And *that's* the nub of the gist, claimed powers of remote sensing aside...
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2012
#116
Hoyt, are you perchance Jim Channon? If so, it would explain a lot...
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2012
#119
"...would you have opened up with that many misses endangering innocent bystanders?"
PavePusher
Jul 2012
#109
You'll never know, but I'm sure I and others could have found a way to handle these clowns
Hoyt
Jul 2012
#146
Well Hoyt, your always complaining about people stuffing a gun or two down their pants
permatex
Jul 2012
#168
She could probably keep me off this group for awhile. We just wouldn't do gun talk.
Hoyt
Jul 2012
#169
I gotta admit, if you can't walk out of your house without a gun, that is way it should be carried.
Hoyt
Jul 2012
#171
Yeah, let us know if you ever face down some punk with a .45 in his hand.
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2012
#153
what do you call bat boy? indian? your attitude toward human life shows little respect for anyone -
Tuesday Afternoon
Jul 2012
#129
and what about ballbats??? and if these RUDE boys had not showed their ass we would never known
Tuesday Afternoon
Jul 2012
#139
So you're inside his head now? You know he wasn't trying to save all the other people in the room?
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2012
#155
As a former armed robber you know about illegal gun toters, legal ones you don't know about. N/ZT
GreenStormCloud
Jul 2012
#141
He musta had one of those 100,000 round extended magazines I've been hearing about n/t
shadowrider
Jul 2012
#41
Of course. How else could it be expected to only hit women and children?
4th law of robotics
Jul 2012
#47
Don't you know some DU'ers are brave enough to approach legal carriers, disarm them,
shadowrider
Jul 2012
#34
Do your CCW permit classes teach you to shoot first or to demand a suspect drop their weapon?
SecularMotion
Jul 2012
#81
If the weapon had been operable, the shooter would have been going up against a
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2012
#159
This is also why it's important to stay on the phone with the dispatcher....
PavePusher
Jul 2012
#111
Agreed. And that, in turn, is a selling point for handguns over shotguns for home defense.
Lizzie Poppet
Jul 2012
#145
Sure, attempt to disarm a bad guy with a gun in the middle of a heinous crime
shadowrider
Jul 2012
#22
You forgot the sarcasm thingy... Some folks might think you actually believe that if you attempt
TPaine7
Jul 2012
#25
Plus, don't overlook an opportunity to ask: "Why was no attempt made to fire a warning shot?"
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2012
#36
disarm a fucking ball bat?? tell me how. I am all ears. that is the rudest goddamn thing I can
Tuesday Afternoon
Jul 2012
#131
Private civilians are never held to the same standard as a police officer.
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2012
#156
No one who makes infantile posts like your "type with one hand" twaddle...
Lizzie Poppet
Jul 2012
#68
that deserves it own OP - shall we talk about the underlying cause and stressors in this man's life?
Tuesday Afternoon
Jul 2012
#135
Well, the upshot (so to speak) was a net positive, but there's a big chance the criminals will get
Higgs boson
Jul 2012
#176