{"id":80511,"date":"2022-01-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80511"},"modified":"2022-01-05T10:45:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T16:45:17","slug":"if-youre-a-carry-permit-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80511","title":{"rendered":"An Apparently Not Very Bright Guy With A Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are a carry permittee, you should read this story and literally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/charges-customer-trying-to-stop-shoplifter-killed-at-st-paul-liquor-store?utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=trueanthem&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR32qscuPxe4B-Rv29MokFEZLoGBRKmeeWNXKWzXSpLqrCfnxcGA3qfpoII\">do  nothing the Mr. Davis in this story did<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Workers told police that Davis (the &#8220;victim&#8221;) was protective of the [liquor store where the incident took place]. Davis accused Edwards [the shoplifter who ended up charged with shooting Davis] of concealing a bottle of vodka and took the bottle from him and demanded Edwards leave the store.<\/p><p>According to the charges, Edwards said he had a gun and started digging through his backpack. But, as it turned out, Davis was carrying a weapon himself, telling the victim that he had a &#8220;license&#8221; and &#8220;displayed&#8221; the weapon.<\/p><p>Police say surveillance video showed the two men move out to the parking lot where they started fighting. The charges state:<\/p><p><em>&#8220;Edwards and [Davis] eventually went to the sidewalk outside the store. Edwards appeared to threaten [Davis] with pepper spray, and the two men got into a heated exchange. Edwards grabbed [Davis&#8217;] shoulders. KD tried to remove his handgun from his jacket while wrestling with Edwards. [Davis&#8217;] handgun fell to the ground. When KD reached to retrieve the gun, Edwards pushed [Davis] away from the gun into the parking lot.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr.. Davis did literally everything wrong, legally <em>and <\/em>tactically.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He was a willing participant. <\/li><li>Not sure how you would claim a threat to your life and health from someone stealing vodka.  <\/li><li>He got into scuffle and allowed himself to lose his weapon. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t do any of this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GIven his behavior, I doubt Davis had a carry permit; if he did, I&#8217;ve got questions for his instructor. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a carry permittee, you should read this story and literally do nothing the Mr. Davis in this story did. Workers told police that Davis (the &#8220;victim&#8221;) was protective of the [liquor store where the incident took place]. Davis accused Edwards [the shoplifter who ended up charged with shooting Davis] of concealing a [&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":[265],"class_list":["post-80511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80511","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=80511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80515,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80511\/revisions\/80515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}