Customer at Internet Cafe Shoots Two Robbers

(youtube) A patron at Palms internet cafe shot 2 robbers on July 13, 2012. The suspects survived and were arrested. Surveillance video shows the incident unfolding from three angles.
spoco2says...

I await the huge pro-gun anti-gun argument that'll start here, but I'll also remove internet as a channel, as this doesn't teach anything about the internet, it just happens to be at an internet cafe. Also, it doesn't fit 'fire', putting all gunshots into fire seems a pretty long stretch of the bow.

*nochannel
*Wtf
*Fear
*Law
*Fail

hpqpsays...

Indeed, it doesn't seem like he even gave them a chance to drop their (probably fake) weapons and surrender, just bang bang, oh, still moving? running away? bang bang bang. Sad.

>> ^Kofi:

Bloodlust. Why keep shooting after they have fled? Crazy gun nuts.

bareboards2says...

Chasing after and shooting people in the back shows the mentality of some of those who carry guns for "protection." It isn't about protection, it is about punishment.

Not all concealed carry permit holders are like this. My dad, at age 79, was mugged in his rural Oklahoma front yard. They hit him in the face with a metal object and he went down, but not out. He didn't have his gun on him. His assailants were unarmed, except for the metal object and the threat of violence. I asked him later if he would have shot them, and he said, "probably not." He knows the difference between force and deadly force. He also knows the power of a gun pointed at you.

This guy was probably justified in making the first shot -- he had the element of surprise and the pistols, fake or not, were pointed at innocent people. I contend that as soon as they started running, that was the time to take a protective stance in front of the other patrons and STOP SHOOTING.

Punishment, not protection.

bobknight33says...

I'm glad the old man kept shooting at the thugs. Some lessons in life are hard.


Contrast this with what happened last night in Colorado at the movie theater. 12 dead. What if some one had a gun there? less people might have died. Guns are good to have with you for when bad things occur.

Guns are not dangerous. Dangerous people with guns are dangerous.

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