Wednesday feel good stories
Two stories of youths turning their lives around this morning, both of them from North Carolina. UpNorth sends the first about a business owner who responded to to an alarm at his business where he discovered two youngsters trying to turn their lives around with a reel of copper wire worth about $4,940;
Page says the business owner and suspects “got into a scuffle,” during which the owner shot one of the suspects.
“Apparently one suspect apparently charged (the owner) and to defend himself he fired a shot, subsequently hitting one of the suspects who then ran around the front of the house and fell and died at the scene,” Page said.
The suspect who was shot died, while the second suspect ran away from the scene, Page said.
Page later identified the suspect who was killed as 28-year-old Jesse Ray Walker of Reidsville.
The lighter-footed youth was later apprehended.
The second story comes from Chief Tango and takes place in Durham, NC;
Investigators responding to a shooting call about 1 a.m. found the man with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the upper left arm. A woman living inside the apartment shot him as he tried to break in.
The man’s name was not released, and police said he was taken to an area hospital for treatment.
So enjoy your morning coffee comforted by the thought that armed Americans are on guard across the country. I guess these stories are all getting old, but the real story is that they happen at all, almost daily, and go totally ignored by the general media.
Category: Feel Good Stories, Guns
Nope, they don’t get old. You’re providing a great service by reporting the good news. The anti-MSM, in a way.
Well done to both the intended victims. I would recommend the lady get more range time, though…
Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the mooooorning…
@2. Exactly what I was thinking, LOL.
I wish the police would show up before the crimes were committed like 0bama said they would. You know, so they can protect us…
“… the real story is that they happen at all, almost daily, and go totally ignored by the general media.”
Probably because they’re just onesies and twosies and don’t qualify as mass shootings. The aggregate does tend to thin out the herd of malefactors, though.
No, they don’t get old at all, Jonn. You’re doing the job the MSM refuses to do, and that’s publish the stories that show that average Americans are willing and able to fight back against dangerous criminals.
As strange as it may sound, it means that the criminals get to read about it, too. It might make them hesitate and think about the fact that they’re mortal, if nothing else.
According to research by Dr. Gary Kleck, there are approximately 600,000 cases of legitimate defensive gun use annually – in most cases, simply brandishing or threatening to shoot served a a seufficient deterrent. What is that, almosr 200 instances daily? 20X higher than the number of shootings. Even if his data was somewhat flawed, it’s doubtful it could be off by a factor of 20X!