Sunday morning feel good stories
AW1Ed sends us our feel good stories this morning. The first is from Tennessee;
[Alan] Miller was working at the dealership on Thursday afternoon when the would-be robber, who still has not been identified by police, entered wearing a mask and brandishing a gun. Two other people were inside the building at the time.
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Miller shot a man twice in the chest as he attempted to rob Miller Auto Sales, located at 4314 Rossville Blvd. Police say the shots Miller fired were in self-defense, and charges will not be filed against him.
“If you, yourself or another’s life is in danger, you have the right to protect yourself,” said Chattanooga police Sgt. Scott Bales.
Next up is Oklahoma;
Eddie and Cindy Gilmore said they were sitting in their living room watching television, when all of the sudden they heard a loud noise behind them, and barely had time to turn around to see dark figures approaching, demanding they get down.
“Three people ran in and grabbed my wife,” Eddie Gilmore said. “She stood up.”
Eddie Gilmore says as his screaming wife was taken to a back room by a masked intruder who was holding a gun to her head, another intruder told him to get on the floor in the living room. “And I got over between the couch and the coffee table and when I did I went down and put my arm on the coffee table to kind of hide myself and I pulled the drawer open because I had a gun in there,” Gilmore said.
That’s when, Gilmore says, he started shooting in every direction he could, hitting two of the subjects. The suspects fired back, but neither Eddie or Cindy were hurt.
“They had a gun to her head,” Eddie Gilmore said, “They could’ve killed her and come right in here and killed me if I hadn’t had a gun.”
Marshall County Undersheriff Danny Cryer said he thought Eddie Gilmore did what he had to do to protect himself and his wife.
The reader who goes by “ohio” sends us a link from Philadelphia, where a good guy with a gun defends himself;
Police say two men in their twenties got off the trolley at 56th and Lansdowne Avenue and headed toward Media and Conestoga when two other men approached and announced a robbery.
One of the victims then reportedly pulled out a gun and shot those two robbers.
“Unbeknownst to the robbers, the 27-year-old victim has a permit to carry…has his handgun with him,” Police Lieutenant John Walker says. “He’s able to draw his handgun, firing multiple times, striking both robbery suspects.”
The bad guys, unfortunately, got off a shot and one of the victims was killed as a result.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Tennessee is the wrong place to play those games.
Where I used to live, in the “offset” far east corner called the tri-state area, NC-TN-VA, people that were caught in criminal activity tended to just disappear.
Lot of old mountain moonshiner roads running through Cherokee National Forest.
Sorry to be off topic. This is MY Sunday morning feel good story. A few days old but I just saw it so here ya go.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153711487717519&fref=nf
A thousand thanks for that.
Although we can’t see his chest, otherwise, he appears to be wearing his uniform properly, which unfortunately, is a rare thing for most veterans attending veterans events.
Of course, a lot of veterans, myself included, don’t have money to purchase a uniform and/or cannot any longer fit into their original uniform issued by the service.
But, even when attired in civilian clothing, we can still adhere to the guidelines offered in AR-670-1:30-6, i.e. a nice suit and tie, with decorations and awards arranged as they would be if worn on a regular United States Army uniform.
The other thing I noticed about Captain Yellin is his unusually clear thinking at the age of ninety-one (91).
Congratulations, Sir!