CCW Permit Holder foils robbery

[Guest rxdoc]

good story about why some people carry and about one SC sheriffs take on concealed weapon permit holders.

http://www.goupstate.com/article/20120121/ARTICLES/120129934/1083/ARTICLES

Edited January 23, 2012 by LagerHead
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[QuietDan]

The list of comments after the article are priceless!

[JAB]

From the article:

No customers or employees were injured. A dozen people were in the restaurant at the time.

So much for the, "There will only be more deaths because bystanders will get caught in the crossfire," line of BS, roll over and play dead, offer your neck to the wolves in the hopes they won't hurt you line of thinking.

"But ooohhhh, Dante was a good guy and that bad old permit holder didn't have to go and kill him." Puh-leese. I'd just like to see Waffle House reimburse the permit holder for the price of the rounds he had to fire and give him free Burt's chili and hash browns for life.

[E4 No More]

I saw this on Texas Gun Talk earlier this week. I'll say here what I said there: Good for him! Happy birthday to the dumba$$!

[daddyo]

From the article:

So much for the, "There will only be more deaths because bystanders will get caught in the crossfire," line of BS, roll over and play dead, offer your neck to the wolves in the hopes they won't hurt you line of thinking.

"But ooohhhh, Dante was a good guy and that bad old permit holder didn't have to go and kill him." Puh-leese. I'd just like to see Waffle House reimburse the permit holder for the price of the rounds he had to fire and give him free Burt's chili and hash browns for life.

And so much for the conventional wisdom that "you don't stand a chance if the bad guy has a gun on you". Beee Esssss.....

[BigK]

Excellent article, comments were hilarious. Some kept calling the 19 yr old robber a kid and saying the customer could have shot to wound or at least not shot him twice. I couldn't believe it.

[G27ATT]

Thanks for posting. Just spent half an hour with a smile on my face reading the comments. :-D

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[MattCary]

Good shoot. And the comments were priceless.

Not meaning to hijack, but, it is on topic... would you have waited to shoot until he pointed the gun at you?

What I'm getting from the story is he probably got shot while moving the gun towards the Customer. Which is probably what I would have done.

I keep reading in stories where people draw their weapons to hold people until the police arrive, without there being negative consequences to the permit holder. Thoughts on doing this in Tennessee?

[Guest Constructionist]

And so much for the conventional wisdom that "you don't stand a chance if the bad guy has a gun on you". Beee Esssss.....

Precisely. I'd hazard a guess that the permit holder had practiced extensively wit his EDC pistol, and that practice translated to fast and accurate rounds on target. Billy Bad A** wannabe learned the hard way that possession of a firearm doesn't make one a marksman.

[TMF]

Not meaning to hijack, but, it is on topic... would you have waited to shoot until he pointed the gun at you?

I guess the situation dictates. I'd like to say I wouldn't intervene if it appeared they weren't going to take it to the next level. I'd like to think that I'd keep my cool and let them take the money and go since it's not my job to protect private business' profits. However, I don't know how pissed I'd be about someone coming in and taking something that isn't his and terrorizing innocents.

[Kenstaroni]

The list of comments after the article are priceless!

+1 The ignorance of some people, interestingly enough the one's from this guy's hood or whatever, say everything...it's never the guys fault who was threatening people's lives because in the hood he was a good person and since he got what he deserved before he got a chance to shoot anyone we should all feel sorry for him...please. I feel sorry for the customer...we all hope we never end up in that situation but I would have done the same thing. Take the places money and run out the door...we'll whatever.. You stick a gun in my face or my wife's and consider that the last thing you do.

Glad this was reported on in a fair and responsible way.