Ohio: Buckeyes for Concealed Carry President Uses Handgun to Defend Family

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103. They are at the link in the OP. I include them as they answer questions raised on this thread:

Some people have questioned why Joe and his wife would be at Westland Mall.

They are indeed Ohio State students. Those questioning their decision to go to Westland Mall are correct in stating there are many other malls in the greater Columbus area and there are many other shopping options closer to campus. Joe and Amanda had actually been at Tuttle Mall looking for a Pittsburgh Steelers shirt. They left when they didn’t find what they were looking for. They stopped at Westland Mall on their way to their home in Grove City in one last ditch effort to find a shirt....


Some people are questioning why the aggressor wasn’t followed or held for police to apprehend when they arrived.

A handgun is a self-defense tool only. An Ohio Concealed Handgun License allows one to carry that self-defense tool on his or her person concealed. It is not permission to behave like a police officer. Once the threat is stopped, the licenses is correct in going back to a holstered heightened state of awareness.

Had Joe pursued the aggressor and subsequently used lethal force, he would no longer be justified in a self-defense claim. Page 19 & 20 of the Ohio Attorney General’s Concealed Carry Handbook outlines the three requirements to justify lethal force in self-defense. Chasing the aggressor is escalating and would remove one of those conditions....

(Added on edit: That concealed carry handbook is available at the link below)

http://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/concealedcarrybook


Finally, some people are questioning the truthfulness of Joe’s story in absence of a police report and other credible news sources. They are calling us liars. They are saying we as gun rights advocates are fabricating or at least embellishing a story to support our agenda


...Amanda did indeed call 911. We’ve included a scan of the business card Deputy Cooper left with Joe. The incident is recorded as response #12-155061 in the radio room log.

No police report was filed. We do not fully understand why a report wasn’t filed. Since shots were not fired, no one was injured, no property was damaged or stolen, and the assailant had fled, we imagine the incident didn’t meet the criteria for a police report.

We also do not understand why a Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy would respond to the call instead of a Columbus Police Officer. The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office and Columbus Police Department operate in concert under agreements similar to the Ohio State University Police and Columbus Police department’s mutual aid agreement. While the agreements are probably subject to public records requests, we have not obtained them. Regardless of how much combined patrolling or mutual aid they provide to each other, a victim can expect a five to ten minute response time...

And that last sentence explains the old saw: "When seconds count, police are minutes away."...