Tuesday morning feel good stories
In Chicago, Illinois an off-duty police officer was parking his car at his home when two gunmen approached him and announced a robbery. The officer began complying with the thieves’ demands when one of them told the other “Shoot him”. The officer pulled his weapon out and exchanged gunfire with the pair. The officer was struck by a bullet in his leg. The pair fled the scene, but one of the two showed up with a wound at a nearby hospital.
Also in Chicago, Illinois, another Chicago police officer who was off-duty was assaulted by a fellow with a baseball bat. The officer wounded him to escape a beating.
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, a security guard caught a fellow trying to steal a car where the guard worked. An altercation ensued, and when the thief threatened the guard, the guard shot him. The thief is in stable condition at the hospital. I know this sounds exactly like another story we did last week, but apparently, it’s a different one that happened yesterday morning if the dateline in the article is correct.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Chicago police are allowed to protect themselves with weapons when off-duty and it works? This might work with ordinary citizens too. I wonder if there is a lesson to be learned here? Not one that they will learn, no doubt
Talk to Congress. Congress created a “more equal than others” category for LE and retied LE about a decade ago. Under the law, they have concealed carry rights the rest of us don’t.
Perhaps if that wasn’t the case – and off-duty LE/retired LE had to live under the same restrictions that other law-abiding US citizens do vis-a-vis firearms possession and carry – you’d see more LE and retired LE speaking out in favor of citizens actually being able to do what the 2nd Amendment says we have the right to do: “keep and bear arms”.
Yeah, one of my personal pet peeves. That and the auto opening knife exception for LE, first responders, and military.
That’s actually a State issue. Auto knives are perfectly legal in Maryland, for example, as long as they are not concealed.
Except for Baltimore, of course. But I make a point of not going there.
So check your State’s laws.
Yes, but that’s Chicago, you see, so the rules are completely different.
I see that the driveby shootings on the Dan Ryan (I57) and the Eisenhower (I94) weren’t reported in that 2nd Chicago article. You’d think that would matter, wouldn’t you?
A week and a half ago, the CPD was crowing on TV about taking ‘guns off the streets’ again, with a brief video of about 9 weapons of various sorts, tagged and lying on a table. Those ‘buyback’ programs really work, don’t they?
Dumb luck for the two in Chicago. With the local gun laws, there’s about a 98% chance that the guy you are robbing isn’t a cop, which means that he will most likely be unarmed.
If I were Chief of Police in Chicago, I’d dock each of them a month’s pay — for wasting training ammunition.
More Range time, people.
I am sad. No bad guys DRT today.