How is getting shot up, killing another person, and possibly killing or injuring everyone else in the store, over maybe a few hundred dollars if he is lucky, a good idea or brave? This makes ZERO sense. Should the guy have robbed the Burger King? No. Did he deserve to die? No. Was putting everyone else in danger worth it? No.
Well let me google for you. Cars are more necessary than guns. Nevertheless, many individuals and organizations, particularly the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American public health establishment are concerned about the number of gun deaths in the U.S. --- 30,000 average deaths annually in the past decade, calling it a public health epidemic. http://www.haciendapub.com/edcor12.html Damn facts.
Just because you have a CHL doesn't make you a vigilante superhero. Both he and the robber were at fault. That CHL guy was stupid for endangering bystanders and was himself seriously wounded. The best thing to do was to let the robber take his money and leave. The only time the CHL guy should have drawn was if the robber cornered him or drew on him. From what the article states, it seems like the CHL guy was eyeballing the robber the wholetime in the hopes of getting into something.
You miss the point entirely. Just because you have a concealed handgun license doesn't make you a superhero or someone qualified to bring someone to justice. Unless you are directly threatened, leave the law enforcement to the cops. The article states that the bystander and robber got into a heated argument. That's not avoiding confrontation. In this case, it would have been better to let the robber leave with some cash verus killing him and getting shot up yourself. For the record, I am pro-RKBA and am in favor of concealed carry.
I'd just like the say that while I'm not supporting what the man did, this argument doesn't hold water. If you wait until someone draws their gun on you, chances are you are not going to be able to get your gun out to defend yourself. If he waits until the robber kills someone, or takes a hostage, or puts a gun to someone's head, or corners him with his weapon, the opportunity to use his own gun to end the situation has likely passed.
The facts are what you said is total BS. This is what you said However the numbers you quoted are for all firearm deaths. Not violent handgun crime. Suicide is not violence. Neither is accidental death. Handgun homocides are only a percentage of the number of firearm homocides. So YOU SUCK AGAIN!
Seriously. Why in the holy hell would you risk your life to save burger king a handful of dollars. This guy deserves free whoppers for life. Which would end up killing him anyway.
This is why I don't support what he did. From what I'm reading it doesn't sound like he did what he did to save someone's life or anything that heroic, but rather saw an opportunity to play hero and kill a man over some cash register money. That's ridiculous. I won't cry for anyone who dies committing a robbery, but I still don't think they need to die.
OK maybe not draw on you but the article says that the bystander was giving the robber the ol stank eye the whole time and then got into a heated argument with him. If I were in that situation, I would have just let the situation pass, seeing as how the robber was intent on getting some quick cash. I certainly would *not* have stared the guy down and then argued with him like an idiot. That is not avoiding confrontation.
Nobody deserves to die. People make mistakes- they shouldn't die because of them. That said, I don't have nearly as big of a problem here as some people do with the customer. Yes it was dangerous, but he was probably fearful for his life. If I had a gun, I'm not sure what I would do in a similar situation. The customer was very brave. We don't know the conditions that surrounded the shooting to know if the customer was negligent in his firing at the robber. I guess people could argue the customer's actions made a bad situation have an ever higher probability of someone getting hurt, though.
