Tuesday morning feel good stories
An armed burglar forced his way into a Richland, South Carolina home and was promptly confronted by “multiple occupants”. He fled the scene, but police found him and took him to the hospital to be treated for his injuries suffered at the hands of his intended victims. Another link says that the burglar’s name was Rion Harvin, a twenty-year-old and that he threatened two occupants with a gun, but the son defending his mother, stabbed Harvin who fled. Bottomline is that Harvin was arrested.
An off-duty police officer moonlighting as a security guard in Queens, New York, was approached by a criminal who demanded his money and his gun. The officer surrendered his bullets one at a time and the thief was DOT (dead over there) at the hospital.
A bank customer in Homewood, Alabama shot at and missed a bank robber as he fled from the scene. The thief ran into the waiting arms of police.
In Beaumont, California, a man approached police officers at a drive-through at Burger King wielding a hatchet. The officers shot him and he was DOT (dead over there) at the hospital.
An 80-year-old homeowner in Cornville, Arizona heard a burglar rummaging through his cupboards and confronted him with a gun. The thief begged the man not to shoot him and slipped away while the homeowner went to call police.
Category: Feel Good Stories
No word on whether the Arizona perp needed new skivvies and trousers afterwards. But the smart money would make that bet.
Not a very bright criminal in the New York situation. Dumbass tries to rob someone that he knows has a weapon. The reason that most people, excluding criminals, carry weapons is that they don’t become a victim. I’ll hold any further comments until this season’s overpaid NFL players tells me whether the incident was another case of a young African American make being slaughtered in the streets of America.
Place obligatory hatchet/gunfight comment here.
Now, for today’s “armed citizen batting line,” courtesy of TAH.
Armed citizens had a good day at the plate yesterday. We had 5 total perps; of those, 2 are doing the endless dirtnap, one is wounded and in custody, and another is unharmed but in custody. One was prevented from completing his crime and is in the wind.
In baseball terms, that’s 4 for 5 with 2 HRs and another extra-base hit – for the day, an OBP of 0.800 and a slugging percentage of at least 2.750. Not too shabby.
However, the guy in SC really should know better than to depend on a knife in a gun fight; that doesn’t generally work out so well for the guy with a knife. Props to him, though, for stepping up and defending his family.
And unless he knew the perp was running towards police, the guy in AL should make time for some target practice.
Has the California Gunopocalypse been covered? The signing of those bills into law (6 of them, have been signed by the governor).
According to the Firearms Policy Coalition, the bills break down this way:
SB 880: Bans common and constitutionally protected firearms that have magazine locking devices.
SB 894: Re-victimizes victims by criminalizing the failure to report lost and stolen firearms.
SB 1235: Now competes with Gavin Newsom’s Safety for All Act/Ammo Ban [by enacting ammunition background checks].
SB 1446: Confiscation of lawfully acquired, standard capacity ammunition feeding devices.
AB 857: Forced “Ghost Gun” registration.
AB 1135: Bans common and constitutionally protected firearms that have magazine locking devices.
AB 1511: Bans the loaning of firearms.
AB 1673: Redefines “firearms” to include items that are not firearms.
AB 1674: Bans buying more than one firearm within a 30-day period.
AB 1695: Makes some non-violent misdemeanors punishable by prohibitions on owning firearms.
AB 2607: Dramatically expands who can request a Gun Violence Restraining order.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2016/07/01/gunpocalypse-passes-now-sitting-governor-browns-desk/
Gee, I wonder why so many Californians are moving out of state?
A meme of a Texas welcome sign:
“Welcome to Texas. Don’t Californicate it.”
Amen. I just haven’t seen this discussed on here. And I can’t find the extent of it. I know 6 have been signed. Didn’t know if I just missed the thread or if California was really that sneaky with this legislation.
They were nowhere near as sneaky as NY – when they passed the SAFE act Gov. Cuomo decided it was ’emergency’ legislation and signed it into law one hour after the Assembly vote – laws are supposed to wait three days for citizen response.
Si, but the SAFE act has been shown to be an utter flop, with a majority of owners that should have registered by the start of the year giving the finger to Cuomo and his winged monkeys.