{"id":37860,"date":"2013-08-15T11:45:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T16:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37860"},"modified":"2016-03-10T10:26:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T16:26:04","slug":"score-another-for-the-good-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37860","title":{"rendered":"Score Another For The Good Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman with a carry permit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/woman-opens-fire-on-group-of-robbers-at-dennys\/-\/1735978\/21394538\/-\/3f3c2c\/-\/index.html\">breaks up a robbery at a Denny&#8217;s in Houston<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8217;s off the Gulf Freeway in southeast Houston.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if it was random or someone set him up. Because he got his own label,&#8221; said the victim&#8217;s brother.<\/p>\n<p>His brother&#8217;s wife was in the restroom at the time, but when she exited the restroom she saw the group of suspected robbers. Police said that&#8217;s when she pulled out her gun and shot at them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She said she came out of the restroom and saw my brother on the floor. That&#8217;s when she started doing what she gotta do. She got a license and she&#8217;ll do anything to protect her kids and my brother,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said there was a shootout, but it is not known how many shots were fired at the time. However, police said the gunshots did hit cars in the parking lot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No word of any charges filed against the woman; if there were, I suspect we&#8217;d have heard of it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Texas has a &#8220;Stand your Ground&#8221; law.\u00a0 Law-abiding citizens <em>involved in otherwise legitimate self-defense shootings <\/em>(i.e. in which they are not willing participants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37792\">&#8220;elites&#8221; don&#8217;t get it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Us proles?\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/request-gun-permits-double-newtown-connecticut-article-1.1426754\">We&#8217;re smarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman with a carry permit breaks up a robbery at a Denny&#8217;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&#8217;s off the Gulf Freeway in southeast Houston. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[346,265,195],"class_list":["post-37860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-a-good-guy-with-a-gun","tag-self-defense","tag-stand-your-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37860","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=37860"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47550,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37860\/revisions\/47550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}