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September 22nd, 2015 at 10:19 pm
That was good. I’m usually reluctant to endorse bystanders popping shots to stop a robber, but the story says the BG pointed at the bystander, so this wasn’t a sheepdog, that’s what you carry for. But, two to the arms and one to the leg? Center mass brother, center mass!
September 23rd, 2015 at 9:53 am
@JTC
According to one news organization (yeah, yeah I know), the good guy fired 10 times. Makes me wonder if he was once employed by the NYPD.
September 23rd, 2015 at 2:37 pm
Hah hah, funny funny. Unless you’ve had to shoot at live, moving targets which have the ability to shoot back, with other people and various barriers all around, don’t knock the marksmanship.
You who shoot at static targets from a static position at standard distances in perfect conditions after you’ve planned to shoot that day have no basis to criticize. When something like a robbery happens, you have a long way to go mentally before you can place a shot on a target. You have to come out of your initial surprise first, and then be able to assess the situation, and then you can start to make decisions. Many people never get to that point before the event is over.
I once watched guy stand frozen, fire extinguisher in hand, while a motor home was on fire on the side of the highway. It then became engulfed and fully “involved” while he did nothing, and it burnt to the ground. Since no one was hurt, one might could say that he did the right thing. What would you do? You cannot say until you’re in it.
Bad guy; zero
Good guy; one
Innocents harmed; zero
Bad guy; alive and in custody
Seems to me he did spectacularly well, given that he had no freaking idea he’d be looking down the barrel of a robber’s gun when he went in to do some routine business that day. The bad guy, technically speaking, had the advantage in that he knew there was going to be a robbery before it happened. How any of us will do if or when our time comes remains to be seen.
September 23rd, 2015 at 2:39 pm
I might add to my list;
Cost to the taxpayer for the CCP holder’s services; zero.
September 23rd, 2015 at 5:02 pm
Chill with the mindset spiel, lyle…chances are everyone reading here could regurgitate all of what you said by rote. The guy did good as I said and all’s well that ends well. But if he popped ten rounds at close range and missed the brisket on all of them, bystanders were not at the top of his concern list and he’s lucky the BG apparently was not shooting back because as you say he had the drop. The only way to be sure of surviving a gun battle may be to not get into one, but next best is once you do, you have to stop the threat before it stops you and you can’t do that without hitting vitals. Thank God in 40 years of at-risk biz I’ve not faced what he did and I hope that streak continues ’til I shuffle off, but if you don’t prep and critique and discuss it when others do, you can’t learn from and add it to your mental preparedness.
And just to correct your list addendum, if the BG was DOA then taxpayer costs would be minimum if not “zero”, but as it stands many thousands will be expended for medical, detention, legal, etc. for many years to come.
As for your motorhome anecdote, maybe the guy was like me; I feel about it about like I do my pool that I mentioned a while back when Unc was putting in his…an under-used high-maintenance money pit. But unlike the pool that won’t burn, if that damn MH flames up I’ll be standing by with the extinguisher to keep it from spreading but I sure as hell won’t interfere; an insured total loss is as good as a sale, and much easier than trying to sell a patched up fire-sale coach.
September 23rd, 2015 at 9:35 pm
I’d say this gentleman has quite a leg up on the NYPD. They would have required five officers doing complete mag dumps to score just one of those appendage hits. And there would undoubtedly be some civilian casualties so they can pin a murder charge on the guy.