Posted on 03/28/2015 12:59:55 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Police say two men in their twenties got off the trolley at 56th and Lansdowne Avenue and headed toward Media and Conestoga when two other men approached and announced a robbery.
One of the victims then reportedly pulled out a gun and shot those two robbers.
“Unbeknownst to the robbers, the 27-year-old victim has a permit to carry…has his handgun with him,” Police Lieutenant John Walker says. “He’s able to draw his handgun, firing multiple times, striking both robbery suspects.”
One of the robbers then returned fire and shot the friend of the armed robbery victim.
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two other men approached and announced a robbery.
Did they bring a portable PA system?
Your attention please, this is a robbery, stick em up
Prayers for the family and friends of the deceased.
Unfortunately, this will prompt someone on the Left to opine that the “attack” by the CCW guy, “caused” the perp to shoot back and kill his friend.
IMHP, he failed to keep shooting until the threat was neutralized. I don’t know the details, but perhaps he should have had a larger caliber weapon, larger capacity magazine, or simply exercised better shot control.
Or maybe there was nothing else he could have done.
One big takeaway is that “shoot-to-wound” doesn’t work.
If the other friend had shot well enough, this would not have happened.
Obviously these two mistreated, under privileged youths were just trying to gather college tuition money as they turned their lives around.
The CCW should’ve kept shooting until reloading and continuing to fire unti lthe thugs were “aspiring”. /if you know why I did that, you know what I mean.
You were there? Otherwise how would you know enough to blame the victim.
No, no not blaming him. Just saying, wish he was a better shot. I wish he’d been a better shot and got those guys before they got his friend!
I’m reminded of the scene in the Clint Eastwood movie The Outlaw Josey Wales, when he had a chance meeting with four union soldiers, and shot and killed all four. Later, his Indian companion asked him a question.
Lone Watie: How did you know which one was goin’ to shoot first?
Josie Wales: Well, that one in the center: he had a flap holster and he was in no itchin’ hurry. And the one second from the left: he had scared eyes, he wasn’t gonna do nothin’. But that one on the far left: he had crazy eyes. Figured him to make the first move.
Lone Watie: How ‘bout the one on the right?
Josie Wales: Never paid him no mind; you were there.
Lone Watie: I could have missed.
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