Posted on 04/11/2013 4:18:07 PM PDT by raptor22
Bat Man: A Chicago store owner beats off two armed thugs with a baseball bat as Missouri illegally shares concealed carry records with feds and New York matches private health records with gun permits to take firearms.
President Obama, who campaigns for gun control between concerts at the White House and golf outings with Tiger Woods, once famously used the metaphor that in politics if they bring a knife to a fight, you bring a gun.
On Tuesday, in the gun-controlled murder capital of Chicago, the president's hometown, store owner Luis Quizhpe, an Ecuadorean immigrant, had no gun, but he brought his baseball bat to the fight when two armed thugs entered and tried to rob the neighborhood novelty store he's run for 28 years.
The dramatic robbery, caught on store surveillance, is perhaps the best argument ever seen for private ownership of firearms for self-defense and why we have a Second Amendment. The video shows one of the robbers holding a gun to Luis Quizhpe's brother-in-law, who was also inside Quizhpe's Gifts and Sports.
A struggle ensued in which Quizhpe can be seen grabbing a baseball bat and swinging as the robber fires continuous rounds at him at close range with one bullet piercing Quizhpe's leg, and his brother-in-law tossing chairs and a fire extinguisher at the fleeing goons.
We are told that things like universal background checks, to which the two thugs who entered Luis Quizhpe's store would have cheerfully submitted, will make us all safer.
We are told this by those who seek to disarm shopkeepers and private citizens everywhere on the grounds that it's the guns, not the goons, that threaten our safety.
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I prefer a spiked aluminum little league bat...several around the place.
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