Tag: Self-defense
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Good Guys: 2. Bad Guys: 0.5
Gas station clerk in Canton Ohio engages three armed robbers: 19 Action News|Cleveland, OH|News, Weather, Sports19 Action News|Cleveland, OH|News, Weather, Sports Kills two, is wounded but is expected to recover.
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The Good Guys Win Another
Gang youths try to rob a group of Milwaukeeans. Law-abiding Milwaukee citizen with carry permits shoot back. Citizens win: He fatally shot one of the robbers, a 15-year-old known gang member who was already the victim of another non-fatal shooting on August 1. The teen had previously been charged with armed robbery, auto theft, theft,…
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Twenty Years Ago On The East Side
Hard to believe it’s been twenty years since Guy Harvey Baker – a Gulf War Marine veteran with, clearly, mental illness issues – killed officers Ron Ryan, Tim Jones, and a police dog named Laser. The PiPress has a fairly good retrospective of the events – with one crucial omission: Ryan, 26, was checking on a…
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One For The Good Guys
Armed robber tries to stick up a store in North Minneapolis. Minneapolis Police responded to a report of an armed robbery just before 9 a.m. at the Handy Stop on the 2600 block of West Broadway Avenue. When officers arrived, they learned an armed suspect entered the store and attempted to rob it at gunpoint.…
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Good Shooting, Tex
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Two shots, two hits. Nice shooting, especially as he was taking fire at the time. This being Chicago, I’m amazed the citizen wasn’t arrested too. The good guys won one, anyway.
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Ground Stood
Citizen in Alabama shoots, kills man who was herding customers in a dollar store into a back room at gunpoint. It seems like a no-brainer, right? Man with a gun is herding innocent third parties into a back room like a bunch of cattle. Well, in Alabama it is. Alabama has a “stand your ground”…
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Free People With “Assault Weapons”: 1. Scum, 0
Detroit mom repels three armed daytime home invasion robbers. Her weapon of choice? A “Hi-Point” carbine – a pistol-caliber semi-automatic rifle. It’s lighter, handier, and doesn’t have the overpenetration of a full rifle-caliber rifle (or intermediate-caliber “assault rifle”), but has better accuracy and, perhaps most importantly, that “I’ve got a F***ING MILITARY GRADE RIFLE, AS***LE!”…
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The Many Lies Of “Protect” MN, Part XXV: Prevention!
Heather Martens (DFL 66A), on the line from fantasy-land: “There is no history of [a citizen with a legally-carried firearm] being a meaningful deterrent or being able to stop an attack”. (Star-Tribune, November 27, 2012). Reality: Man with carry permit thwarts armed robbers who’d pistol-whipped shopkeeper in Northeast Minneapolis: Inside his neighborhood market, Mohamed…
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The Many Lies of “Protect” MN, Part XXIV: “No Precedent!”
I almost missed this one in the scrum of this past few weeks. A couple of weeks ago, when Representatives Paymar and Martens tried to jam down a ban on law-abiding citizens carrying their legally-permitted firearms in the Capitol complex, the Strib’s Abby Simons wrote the paper’s follow-up piece. It ended with a quote from…
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A Memorial To Remember
This coming Saturday, Minnesota’s self-appointed gun-grabber elite are going to try to squeedge some more juice out of waving the bloody shirt of Newtown: To Remember: A commemoration of the Sandy Hook school victims, and all victims of gun violence — 9:30 a.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1200 Marquette Ave., Minneapolis. To RSVP, click here. Space is limited.…
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The Tale Of VT
Two of the gun-grabbers’ favorite conceits: It’s guns – not criminals – that make the “inner city” dangerous (this pronounced always by unctuous white liberals like Jane Kay and Representative Heather Martens, who live in places like Linden Hills and Crocus Hill after doing their stint at Carlton or Saint Thomas) Nobody ever foils a…
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Score Another For The Good Guys
A woman with a carry permit breaks up a robbery at a Denny’s in Houston: At around 4 a.m. Thursday, a man who does not want to be identified, said his brother was robbed by six men with guns at a Denny’s off the Gulf Freeway in southeast Houston. “I don’t know if it was…
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Chalk Up Two For The Good Guys
Guns save the lives of real Americans. Story first. Then a quiz: It was an extremely scary situation when a female bank teller and her husband were kidnapped from their home and forced to drive to the bank where the wife worked to help the thieves steal money from a safe after hours. According to…
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The Good Guys Win Another
Thugs case a pregnant woman’s house…:: It all happened in broad daylight on Monday afternoon. That’s when the first man walked up to her kitchen door and began pounding and ringing the doorbell. He was clearly checking to see if anyone was home. The woman recalls, “He started ringing the doorbell, probably 50 times, fast —…
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Chalk One Up For The Good Guys
Make no mistake about it – killing a human being, even in self-defense, is a tragedy. In the case of homicide justified in self-defense, it’s the second-worst tragedy there is. The Hennepin County Attorney has h declined to prosecute Christopher Lamotte – a bouncer at Grumpy’s Bar, in Northeast Minneapolis – for the shooting of Tirso…
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Self-Defense
Amid the scrum of personal and political news of this past week or so, I almost missed this one; the apparent self-defense shooting late Saturday night at a northeast Minneapolis bar involving a bouncer with a carry permit: Tirso Cruz Gomez, 24, of Columbia Heights was found bleeding to death from a gunshot wound when police arrived…
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The Good Guys Win One
Will this story appear in the Strib? A shooting occurred uring an armed robbery attempt in Excelsior overnight. It happened at the Lakeshore Market on Highway 7 shortly after 10:30 pm. Two men wearing masks entered the store and encountered a clerk with a gun. Police chief Brian Litsey says at least one of the…
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On The One Hand, Chalk One Up For The Good Guys
Tuscon homeowner beats back four armed scumbagswho attack his home, apparently wounding one of them. On the other hand, the first guy in the video is carrying an AR15. Good to see how all those “assault weapon bans” that made it so expensive to buy the cool firearms have been so effective in disarming criminals.
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Good Guys 1, Criminals 0, Media -15
Homeowner kills intruder: Gerald Whaley told police that he was home alone when he heard what sounded like several intruders breaking in through his garage about 11 p.m. Minutes later, he shot a burglar once with the .22-caliber rifle he kept loaded by his bed. The intruder stumbled downstairs and collapsed in the home on…