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June 24, 2004

Coverage

Shawn at "American Mind" has a fascinating story about the media's treatment of a "pack, not a herd" story from northern Minnesota.

Shawn gives the backstory:

A young man has killed his father. After a search of several hours, the boy was found walking along a rural road, and was not initially apprehended by police, but rather by a few guys working in an auto-body shop who saw him walking along the road. Having listened to a police scanner during the day, they knew a search was on, and after seeing the boy and asking who he was and if he had a gun, they detained him and called the sheriff's department.
The interesting part, of course, is the media coverage that Minnesota's various newspapers and TV stations gave it.

Read the whole thing.

Posted by Mitch at June 24, 2004 06:35 AM
Comments

i am surprised the Strib covered it as they did. Typically, when an armed citizen acts, there is no mention of the "armed" part. A few years ago, there was a string of home invasion robberies here in California. Eventually, the perpetrator was caught in Fresno when he had the bad fortune to bust into a house in which the citizen was armed. End of robberies. But no mention whatsoever of the homeowner being armed except on a local TV station.

Posted by: James Ph. at June 24, 2004 07:29 AM

Thanks.

What I forgot to mention, and will cover in a bit, is if these guys are concealed carry permit holders. Certainly would be interesting to know. One of the guy's brother-in-law called into GL today to say his brother _is_ a concealed carry permit holder. Something left out of the story.

Posted by: Shawn Sarazin at June 24, 2004 06:12 PM
hi