{"id":37697,"date":"2013-08-05T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37697"},"modified":"2016-03-10T10:26:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T16:26:04","slug":"chalk-up-two-for-the-good-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37697","title":{"rendered":"Chalk Up Two For The Good Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guns save the lives of real Americans.<\/p>\n

Story first<\/a>.\u00a0 Then a quiz:<\/p>\n

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.
\nAccording to KHOU, the couple was at home, when two armed men, who knew the wife was a bank teller, forced their way in and held the couple at gunpoint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The suspects forced the couple into their own car, made them drive to the bank, and had the wife remove money from the safe.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, the robbers told the husband to drive away – in a completely different direction.\u00a0 To the dreaded “Secondary Crime Scene”, where anyone with a brain knows your odds of survival are in the single digits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At some point during that drive, the husband was able to gain access to his personal firearm, which was in the vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He opened fire on the suspects, hitting both of them. One of the suspects died of his injuries and the other is in serious condition.<\/p>\n

The suspects are described as brothers, aged 20 and 21, who live in the community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By the way, one of the self-defense questions I get most often is “is there a site that chronicles self-defense cases?”\u00a0 Clayton Cramer retired his excellent “Armed Self-Defense” site a few years ago – but the site posting this piece, Guns Save Lives<\/a>, is stepping in to fill the void.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, the quiz.\u00a0 It’s aimed at all you leftybloggers out there who, in the absence of any knowledge or intellectual curiosity on the subject, labeled the “stand your ground” as “Shoot First” laws.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The gentleman in this storyshot first.<\/p>\n

What do you think would have happend if he’d shot second?<\/p>\n

Answers please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guns save the lives of real Americans. Story first.\u00a0 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[346,265],"class_list":["post-37697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament","tag-a-good-guy-with-a-gun","tag-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47551,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37697\/revisions\/47551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}