{"id":47395,"date":"2014-09-25T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47395"},"modified":"2014-09-24T13:03:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T18:03:44","slug":"self-defense-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47395","title":{"rendered":"Self-Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rumors started flying over the weekend – and Tuesday, we got confirmation:\u00a0 one of the rash of shootings in Minneapolis over the weekend involved a carry permittee<\/a>, a 21 year old Minneapolis man:<\/p>\n

Authorities believe he was acting in self-defense when he fatally shot 18-year-old Earl Malone Saturday night at the intersection of Knox Avenue North and 26th Street.<\/p>\n

Police took the 21-year-old man into custody at the scene. Sources tell WCCO the man has a conceal-and-carry [sic] permit, and told police he shot Malone because he had tried to rob him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to a Facebook post from the Twin Cities Gun Owners and Carry Forum and the irreplaceable Shelley Leeson – a reliable source on these sorts of stories – the permit holder apparently said Malone was armed, and tried to car-jack him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to police files, the 21-year-old permittee fired three shots; Malone fled, and the permittee called 911, exactly as one is supposed to do<\/em>.\u00a0 Squads responding found Malone dead – his gun still in his hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since the permittee has been released without charges, you may be certain of three things:<\/p>\n

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  1. He didn’t pick a fight with Mr. Malone.\u00a0 Indeed, he did everything feasible to get away from the fight (with “feasible” being the operative word).<\/li>\n
  2. The permittee legitimately feared being killed or maimed – enough so that the notoriously anti-gun Henco attorney Mike Freeman was convinced the case didn’t need to go to trial.<\/li>\n
  3. The use of lethal force was appropriate under the circumstances; if it weren’t, Mike Freeman would pounce like a vulture.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And while the identity of the shooter has not been released, and likely won’t be (for the shooter’s protection, no doubt), I’m going to hazard a guess – and it is only a guess – that the permittee is African-American.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    If it weren’t true, the local media and the cluster of anti-gun pressure groups, who would love <\/em>to have a Trayvon Martin of their very own to wave like a bloody shirt, would be howling about it right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The rumors started flying over the weekend – and Tuesday, we got confirmation:\u00a0 one of the rash of shootings in Minneapolis over the weekend involved a carry permittee, a 21 year old Minneapolis man: Authorities believe he was acting in self-defense when he fatally shot 18-year-old Earl Malone Saturday night at the intersection of Knox […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47395","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=47395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47398,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47395\/revisions\/47398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}