Posted on 12/27/2016 8:44:38 AM PST by PROCON
A Georgia gun store owner fought back against two armed suspects who attempted to rob his business Monday morning.
One suspect was left dead and the second remains at large, local media reported, but authorities are hopeful surveillance video that captured the attempted robbery will help them to identify the second suspect.
The owner of Dixie Gun and Pawn had just opened the shop with an employee when the two suspects entered wearing ski masks and armed with guns. Fearing for his safety, the shop owner pulled out his own gun and fired at the suspects, striking one and sending the other fleeing.
The injured suspect collapsed inside the store, while the second suspect drove away in a silver Dodge Magnum, leaving his wounded accomplice behind.
The injured suspect, whose name has not been released, died at the scene. The shop owner, the employee and two customers who were in the business at the time of the incident were not injured.
Authorities took statements from the shop owner, the employee and the customers, who all corroborated the account of what happened. The shop owner told reporters off-camera he felt he had no choice but to fire at the suspects.
Most agree the shop owner’s actions were justified, while others were left wondering what the suspects were thinking trying to rob a gun shop in the first place.
“It’s just amazing to see someone try to come into a gun store to rob a gun store. I mean, that was a really un-thought-out plan,” said customer Terrance Coner while shaking his head.
But Bill Bloedow, who is friends with the shop owner, said crime is high in the area.
“I hope it puts the fear in people going around trying to do this stuff, there is too much crime in this area,” Bloedow said.
Another friend, Victor Harris said the shop owner is very shaken up over the shooting.
“He’s just trying to make a living. That’s all he’s doing, and these guys come in and try to rob you and take your money and your guns,” Harris said, as he expressed sympathy for the shop owner and dead suspect alike.
She should have been keeping a closer eye on her kid, then.
“What kind of mind thinks they weren’t justified?”
He was a good boy, an aspiring rapper, just turning his life around, dindunuffin.
Maybe they thought it was a Gum store.
Public Education.
We have a local gun shop where the folks running it don’t wear sidearms and they forbid their customers to bear arms inside - that’s the one I don’t go to....
When a person points a gun at another human with the intent of forcing his will, or coercing him into surrendering his hard-earned money, he deserves whatever happens to him. It’s an act of terrorism as I see it - using the fear of death to coerce someone. So there’s zero sympathy from me.
My sympathies go with the man who had to kill the thug. He was just trying to live and ordinary life, on an ordinary day.
“It’s just amazing to see someone try to come into a gun store to rob a gun store. I mean, that was a really un-thought-out plan,”
Understatement.
Only bad thing I can see in this story is that one of them lived.
Next time he may grow half a brain and make sure no one is armed when he goes to work.
The perp would’ve had better luck trying to rob a doughnut shop. Which, I should add, is not a particularly smart move either.
Probably the Darwin Award winner lying dead on the floor of the store?
It takes a real dunderhead to rob a gun store.
The one's who get away with it are the ones who do a smash and grab after hours at a store that doesn't lock its inventory up at night.
Well, it finally happened.
That old saying, “You never see anybody trying to rob a gun store”. Well it happened, and with predictable results. Good for the owner. Another Darwin award winner gets his just reward.
Just consider all of the tax payers money that was saved on court appointed attorneys, etc.
Good Shooting!
Many establishments in high crime areas defend themselves by having customers ring in. There are 2 doors and the inner door is glass reinforced with steel mesh. Customers enter that lobby then ring for entry and if the proprietors like the looks of you, they buzz you in. Stops crimes like this. Jewelry stores in high crime areas do this to.
There is a rumor going around that he was going to start his freshman year at Duke next spring.
"This could very well be the stupidest person on the face of the Earth, perhaps we should shoot him."
“He was just trying to get money to pursue his dream of being a brain surgeon.”
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