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In reply to the discussion: Customer shoots two armed robbers at Internet cafe. [View all]4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)45. See that's the problem, they (cops) are law abiding citizens
if they were criminals they could just casually take the gun away from the person and use it on them (it is a 100% certainty that if you try to use a firearm in self-defense the criminal will simply take it away and shoot you).
So really we need criminals and their insane ninja like weapon taking skills patrolling the streets.
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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