You shouldn’t go robbing people. Someone will take your gun away and use it on you.
WKRN:
Metro police told News 2 a group of people were inside the store when at least three armed suspects came in through an unlocked back door and began firing.
Witnesses said one of the people in the group was able to wrestle one of the suspects gun away and exchanged fired with at least one person.
The person scored shots on all three, killing one. Well done.
April 24th, 2017 at 9:37 pm
Not sure about TN laws, but it lots of places the two wounded perps will get charged with murder 1 ‘cuz their buddy died. Sounds like a win-win to me.
April 24th, 2017 at 10:02 pm
If the perps had been successful and killed all their intended victims, then the incident may have been worthy of the national news for “gun violence”. But thanks to WKRN for reporting this “catastrophic error in victim selection” whereby lives were defended and saved–by good gun violence.
April 25th, 2017 at 9:27 am
Nice.
April 25th, 2017 at 10:24 am
But everyone always says “Just give them what they want. Don’t fight back”….
April 25th, 2017 at 11:04 am
Maybe the antigunners can still use this as an example of “Don’t use a gun for self-defense, it will just get taken away from you and you’ll end up shot with your own gun.” Or even more outrageously, “You don’t need to carry a gun for self defense (you can always find a gun when you really need one).”
April 25th, 2017 at 7:23 pm
The initial reports were that a customer had their own gun and shot them. Now the story is that there was “a group of people” in a back room, 2 hours after closing, and that the suspects came in through an unlocked door and immediately opened fire, while one of the victims was able to manually disarm one and land hits on all three.
This was either a drug deal gone wrong or a craps game getting robbed. The “good guy” shooter is probably a felon and claimed that he disarmed one to avoid charges (which was unnecessary in this state, they cannot charge you for illegal possession of a weapon if the only reason they find out is due to an otherwise legal shoot.
April 25th, 2017 at 9:04 pm
I did wonder “Who robs a shoe store?”, wizardpc.
But I suspected two rival gangs there to buy Air Jordans at the same time.
April 26th, 2017 at 2:54 pm
@mikee, your comment reminds me of when Obama appeared at the CNN Townhall on “gun violence”. A young mother who had been a rape victim told him she was now carrying a gun everywhere she went and wanted the fight supported. In typical anti woman misogyny, Obama replied almost verbatim, “it will be taken away from you and you’ll end up shot with your own gun.” “Useful idiot” voters thought him a liberal, but he’s an authoritarian elitist.