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US woman shoots at shoplifter as he flees store

1 posted on 10/13/2015 5:43:11 PM PDT by BBell
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To: ConservativeStatement

ping


2 posted on 10/13/2015 5:43:36 PM PDT by BBell
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To: BBell

Called it. Not hard to know why.


3 posted on 10/13/2015 5:46:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BBell

Laws are racis’.


4 posted on 10/13/2015 5:47:54 PM PDT by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: BBell

Yeah, she probably should have paid closer attention in her carry class.

I’d say she’s pretty lucky to be facing minor charges, and also lucky that she didn’t kill or injure anyone.


5 posted on 10/13/2015 5:47:58 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: BBell

Broke some basic rules for CCW. She wasn’t threatened and they were fleeing.


6 posted on 10/13/2015 5:48:21 PM PDT by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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To: BBell

My Father once shot the tires of the car of a young man who had stolen his heart medication. I assume it was narcotics.

The kid made it around a mile before the rims wore out. The deputy came by, arrested the kid and told Daddy that maybe next time he should just phone them. He did not ever threaten Daddy otherwise.


7 posted on 10/13/2015 5:48:23 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: BBell

Good.

The Mommy State stops here.


12 posted on 10/13/2015 6:02:07 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: BBell

Poor control. She didn’t get a kill shot. Obviously, needs more range time.


15 posted on 10/13/2015 6:09:28 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: BBell

Stupid.


19 posted on 10/13/2015 6:33:56 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: BBell

Obviously not a legal shot.

But it more than likely was a moral shot.


20 posted on 10/13/2015 6:37:21 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: BBell

I am only surprised they didn’t charge her sooner. No one likes property crime, but it isn’t something to shoot over when the suspects are fleeing.


23 posted on 10/13/2015 6:49:09 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: BBell

Bad shoot. The threat was no longer present (it was fleeing), and thus the shoot was unjustified. And even if he hadn’t been fleeing shooting a shoplifter is not shooting a direct physical threat, and will get the shooter in trouble big time.

Now, if the bad guy was running away with the woman’s child, then the shoot would have been justified.


24 posted on 10/13/2015 7:07:42 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: BBell

Why are federal prosecutors involved with this if it’s a misdemeanor, or was that an error by the “reporters”?


25 posted on 10/13/2015 7:44:12 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: BBell

Can’t shoot at someone if they are fleeing for a non-felony theft crime. Even it it was a felony theft, you have to give them a warning first. See Garner v. Tennessee, 471 U.S. 1 (1985)


28 posted on 10/13/2015 10:05:52 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: BBell
She's a witch!!! She turned me into a newt!
29 posted on 10/14/2015 4:22:00 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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