{"id":66996,"date":"2018-06-01T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66996"},"modified":"2018-05-31T22:11:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T03:11:28","slug":"another-good-guy-with-a-gun-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66996","title":{"rendered":"Another Good Guy With A Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"

A motorist who shot a man acting erratically and aggressively – with a knife – after a traffic accident in Fridley last fall won’t be charged.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

According to the attorney’s office, Schiffler got out of his vehicle, grabbed a woman and began forcefully groping and kissing her. He also, the attorney’s office said, stabbed at the window of a nearby car with a 4-inch knife.<\/p>\n

Another motorist unholstered his gun and told Schiffler to stop. According to the attorney’s office, Schiffler\u00a0then raised his knife and charged at the man with the gun. The man shot him three times, and Schiffler died from his injuries.<\/p>\n

“The evidence demonstrates the shooter had no reasonable ability to further retreat, given the physical surroundings, proximity of other people and the actions of Schiffler,” the attorney’s office said in a press release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gun-grabbers might say that’s not the same as “justifiable” homicide.\u00a0 They’re right.\u00a0 It’s better.\u00a0 The cops and the county attorney believe there was no point in taking the case to court; nobody\u00a0needs\u00a0<\/em>to prove it was justified.<\/p>\n

I’d say “I love a happy ending” – but of course it’s not a happy ending; even insane and impaired people are human beings, usually with some sort of parents or sibling out there.<\/p>\n

But then, so were the people that Mr. Schiffer threatended\u00a0with a knife<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A motorist who shot a man acting erratically and aggressively – with a knife – after a traffic accident in Fridley last fall won’t be charged.\u00a0\u00a0 According to the attorney’s office, Schiffler got out of his vehicle, grabbed a woman and began forcefully groping and kissing her. He also, the attorney’s office said, stabbed at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[346,265],"class_list":["post-66996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","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\/66996","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=66996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66997,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66996\/revisions\/66997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}