OK: Tulsa Police Officer Praises the Second Amendment

Gun Watch ^ | 11 December, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

 Link to video of Sgt. Tuell

At 1:15 a.m. on a cold December night, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, most people are not prowling other people's back yards, looking for trouble. But 32 year old Perry Wallace seems to have been doing exactly that. He jumped a fence to get into the back yard of a homeowner. The homeowner and his family (a girlfriend and four children) were at home.

Then Perry made a big mistake. He tried to break into the home through the bedroom door, which led to the backyard.  The homeowner opened fire with his girlfriend's pistol, wounding Perry several times.

Just another night in Tulsa, you might think. There is nothing too remarkable about the events described, except the part about the borrowed gun. Most men in Oklahoma have their own guns. Maybe the homeowner has his as well, but the girlfriend's pistol was handier.

The interesting part is the police response. It is given by Sgt. Shane Tuell. Sgt. Tuell is the Tulsa Police Department Public Information Officer. Remarks by him can be taken as official. From newson6.com:

The homeowner's four children, ages four through 12 and his girlfriend were in the home at the time.

Police say they believe it was a matter of self-defense and that Wallace made a bad decision.

"If you're going to try to get into someone's house that's not your own, you're rolling the dice, especially here in Oklahoma. A lot of people exercise their Second Amendment, which is fantastic," said Sgt. Shane Tuell.

For five decades the most predictable police response to a self defense shooting seemed to be to advise citizens "not to take the law into their own hands". That response is in the process of changing. Street police know they are the clean-up crew. They are there after the fact. The rare instance where the police interupt a crime in progress is a cause for celebration.

Sgt. Tuell should be applauded for his direct support for the exercise of the Second Amendment. It is a building trend.

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[marktwain]

Most police support armed citizens. The number has been growing as the concealed carry movement has spread across the country.

[gundog]

Imagine a cop’s job if the bad guys knew all good guys were unarmed.

[heterosupremacist]

Excellent post. They are, and should be; American Patriots, to you and I - yet they are racist murderers to the other side - hmmm...

[Farmer Dean]

Imagine a cop’s job if the bad guys knew all good guys were armed.

[JohnnyP]

Maybe Mark Twain had a revolver and an automatic....

[heterosupremacist]

Re : Post #5

*Maybe Mark Twain had a revolver and an automatic....*

or a SEMI-AUTOMATIC? D’oh!

:^)

[marktwain]

Sam Clemens just wrote that because he was such a bad shot.

[Secret Agent Man]

Hey the cops see this as a way they dont get blamed for shooting someone.

[Bigg Red]

Good shootin’, homeowner. Now, man up and marry the mother of your children.

[MrEdd]

Non sequitur much?

We aren’t told anything about the mother of the homeowner’s children. We do know that the father has custody though, which says something.

So did she die? Run off with another guy (or woman) perhaps? Is she drugged out and in jail somewhere?

There is zero information given to assess anything other than a home invader picked a house with armed residents.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Didn’t someone take a shot at a coyote and hit the stage mule? (ROUGHING IT).
Maybe the shooter had a bad case of fleas biting him. “Fleas! I ain’t no damn dog! Them’s LICE!”

[marktwain]

I do not recall a stage mule being hit, but he did write of some one shooting a “pepperbox” and hitting a mule, I believe.

“She went after a deuce of spades nailed against a tree, once, and fetched a mule standing about thirty yards to the left of it. Bemis did not want the mule; but the owner came out with a double-barreled shotgun and persuaded him to buy it, anyhow.”

[Bigg Red]

The rampant acceptance of shacking up in our culture has contributed to an unraveling of society. All part of the left’s plan to dismantle the foundations of Western Civilization.