{"id":48099,"date":"2014-10-15T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48099"},"modified":"2014-10-15T13:35:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T18:35:19","slug":"what-not-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48099","title":{"rendered":"What Not To Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can almost hear every carry permit instructor in the Twin Cities writing down the details of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxtwincities.com\/story\/26784546\/man-shoots-at-car-at-lake-como-to-avenge-purse-thief\">this case <\/a>as their prime example of what never, never, ever to do with your firearm and permit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The complaint said [Matrix Richard] Lee got up and ran at the woman to retrieve the purse, but she drove at Lee and lifted her arm making some sort of gesture that, in fear of being shot, prompted Lee to grab his handgun, insert a full magazine and fire around the fleeing vehicle. The driver apparently gave him the finger, and angrily, he fired an additional shot at the car in effort to pop the tires, Lee told police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pro tip: if they are fleeing, and so far away that you have to steady your arm for a long range shot at a moving target, you are probably not &#8220;in immediate fear of death or great bodily harm&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If the facts of the case are exactly as presented (always the caveat when the mainstream media is reporting on self-defense cases) then Mr. Lee would seem to deserve to be prosecuted for a whole dogs breakfast of charges, not the least of them reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>And not only will Mr. Lee truly deserve it, but I think we need to take a close look at whoever his carry permit training instructor was, just in case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can almost hear every carry permit instructor in the Twin Cities writing down the details of this case as their prime example of what never, never, ever to do with your firearm and permit: The complaint said [Matrix Richard] Lee got up and ran at the woman to retrieve the purse, but she drove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48099","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=48099"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48125,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48099\/revisions\/48125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}