Posted on 07/10/2014 7:24:27 AM PDT by marktwain
Jerold Evans, 19, was upset with his ex-girlfriend. He apparently decided that the way to end his negative emotion was to use a .45 on her. He did not count on a member of the gun culture being on hand and intervening. Bobby Howard, 71, had a concealed carry permit, a handgun, and the will to use it. As Evans menaced his Ex with the loaded .45, Mr. Howard assessed the situation, drew his weapon, and stopped the threat. From the Toledo Blade:
The police report that 71 year old Bobby Howard will not be charged. The ex-boyfriend, Jerold Evans, was taken to the hospital with a gunshot to the back. He will be charged with the illegal carry of a concealed weapon and with aggravated menacing. No one else was injured in the incident. Remember, according to Moms Demand Action media figure Shannon Watts, good guys with guns never stop bad guys with guns. Except when they do.Owner of Howard‘s, Bobby Howard, 71, shot Jerold Evans, 19, inside the store at about 11:15 p.m., police said. According to an incident report and court affidavits, Mr. Evans allegedly went into the store, 1001 Nebraska Ave., with a loaded .45-caliber handgun, with one round in the chamber, and threatened to shoot his ex-girlfriend who was inside the store. Mr. Howard reportedly told police that he shot Mr. Evans once.
CCW = concealed carry weapon
What is this gun culture?
It never happened.
If the bad guy was shot in the back, it might be awkward unless he was between Howard and the girl, and facing the girl.
Oh, I imagine he will be counted as a child shot by a gun, since he was only 19. And if Howard's is anywhere near a school, this will be listed as a school shooting.
Looks like Howard did a good job sneaking up on the perp. No sane person wants to turn this kind of situation into a “fair” fight. Drop the bastard before he can drop the girl or the CCW holder.
Must be like the gang culture, but guns congregating together instead of gangstas.
But, but he ONLY had ONE round in the chamber of his .45!
That should count for something!
Snark
Agreed, as long as the bad guy was not in the process of leaving.
The gun culture is a construct by liberals to demean citizens who lawfully possess and use firearms.
Shot in the back really has no legal significance outside western movies. There are a million ways it is ok to shoot ‘em in the back. One is by being an armed man in a store, clearly out to hurt someone. Any angle you can hit him from is fine.
A cop normally has a duty to verbally challenge, but a 71 year old man would fall into significant disadvantage by announcing his presence to a fit 19 year old.
If it was clear to everyone in the store that the guy was there on a mission of evil, any shot is in bounds legally.
“The gun culture” is essentially composed of those people who own and shoot guns and support the second amendment as a natural right.
Sometimes people talk about “the new gun culture” or as in an NRA magazine “Gun culture 2.0”
Those terms refer to the gun culture that has been forged in the adversity of an elite that has been trying to eliminate them for the last 50 years or so.
A good examination of the gun culture is done in “Rise of the Anti-Media.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2014/07/book-review-rise-of-anti-media-by-brian.html
Someone give that man a ceegar.
Unless he was leaving.
I was sent an email of the incident by a friend, but do not have anything I can post here. It was apparently a very cool-headed demonstration of how to react in a crisis. (One of the dead invaders had apparently already murdered someone in the neighborhood.)
“The gun culture is a construct by liberals to demean citizens who lawfully possess and use firearms.”
It started out that way, but the second amendment community co-opted it, adopted it, and embraced it.
“Have you seen anything about the eleven year old girl, who dispatched two illegals in a forced entry to her home, with her daddy’s shotgun in Montana, this week?”
I have not. It sounds suspiciously like an “urban myth” that has been floating around the Internets for years.
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