Saturday FGS
Washington man fatally shoots suspected home burglar: ‘I have the right to protect myself’
Residents in the area said the neighborhood has seen an increase in crime
By Louis Casiano
A Washington state man shot and killed a suspected burglar and opened fire on another inside his home early Thursday, saying “I have a right to defend myself.”Jerahme Smith, 31, told Fox affiliate KCPQ-TV in Seattle that he was in his Spanaway home with his sister when two men kicked in a back door. One of them had a weapon, prompting Smith to open fire in self-defense, he said.
“When everything first started, the first thing I had to do was take a few breaths and calm myself down because I knew it could have gone one of two ways,” he told the news outlet. “I didn’t know who they were, I didn’t know what they had, but the first thing I did–and it’s the honest to God truth–is I took a few breaths to myself. That way I knew I was calm enough to make a proper judgment decision.”
The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said they received a call about a home invasion just before 4:30 a.m. from a homeowner who said he shot at intruders. When deputies arrived, they found an unresponsive suspect, identified as a 24-year-old man.
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Fox News
“Nothing in here is worth your life.” Signage at my local firearm emporium.
Deputies pursue man accused of firing 72 times along Brandon Boulevard
Josh Fiallo
A man who opened fire on Brandon Boulevard Thursday discharged two weapons 72 times before he surrendered to deputies, Hillsborough Sheriff Chad Chronister said Friday.That’s nearly five times more than the 15 shots Chronister estimated a day earlier after the arrest of Daniel Lighty, 35, of Brandon.
The incident started about 12:45 p.m. Thursday when Lighty pulled into the Washed Up Brandon Carwash, 834 E Brandon Blvd., and began recording a Facebook Live video, Chronister said Thursday. When asked to leave by an employee, Lighty refused, and deputies were called to the scene.
Lighty fired at the first of three deputies to arrive on the scene, Chronister said, barely missing her. Lighty kept shooting, six dozen times, and using at least two guns, the sheriff said. One deputy returned fire but did not strike Lighty.
“He fired his firearms 72 times,” Chronister said. “That’s 72 opportunities to kill or seriously injure someone in our community or the responding deputies.”
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MSN
Have fun with this one. Thanks, Gun Bunny.
To have no proud monarch driving over me with his gilt coaches; nor his host of excise-men and tax-gatherers insulting and robbing me; but to be my own master, my own prince and sovereign, gloriously preserving my national dignity, and pursuing my true happiness; planting my vineyards, and eating their luscious fruits; and sowing my fields, and reaping the golden grain: and seeing millions of brothers all around me, equally free and happy as myself. This, sir, is what I long for. — General Francis Marion, American War of Independence, Georgetown, SC
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Instead of open arms, welcomed the “guests” with “Open Fire!” BZ Citizen, one less oxygen thief in town.
Was right near that “Let’s Go Brandon” Blvd location during Thanksgiving. This nut job is one of the many reasons I gots to get my Baby Girl and The Grands the hell out of there.
A .22 is for squirrels and sech, or handy to help keep the bad guys’ heads down til you can get to something that will “punch” a round the size of a dime going in and “punch” a hole the size of a silver dollar coming out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know…a .22 will kill you just as dead as a .45, buuuutt, as we all know…Bigger IS better.
Too bad that old goat won’t be able to ram it’s way into an end zone that dramatically. Chicken wing?
GABN