MN: Armed Wife Stops Mob Attack on Husband

Gun Watch ^ | 18 March, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Image from cbslocal.com

 A recent mob attack in St. Paul, Minnesota, illustrated the reason why Second Amendment supporters have pushed so hard to be able to, at minimum, keep a firearms in their vehicle or their workspace.  It also illustrates why disarmists have pushed hard to oppose it.  The last thing that disarmists want are examples of people who use firearms to defend themselves.

32 year old Bruce Chang was assaulted by a mob of 15 to 30 young men. The attack almost cost him his eye, and could easily have cost him his life.  Fortunately, his wife was close by in his home, and armed. The attack would  likely have been prevented if his workplace wouldn't have banned the exercise of his Second Amendment rights on their property. From cbslocal.com:

“I didn’t know I was stabbed but I felt the pressure and fell to one knee,” he said. “I immediately pushed off, because you got to survive.”

He was assaulted by a mob of 15 to 30 young men gambling on his driveway. They threw rocks and jabbed a stick at his face, striking him just below his left eye.

“With one of my older neighbors, who knows what would have happened,” Chang said.

Chang’s wife also has a firearm-carry permit. Because he can’t take his pistol to his workplace, Chang didn’t have it Monday when he pulled into his driveway.

At least one of Chang's attackers was aiming for the eye socket, endangering Chang's bodily integrity, and his life.  The nature of the mob attack meets the requirements for disparity of force.  Bruce Change would have been justified in using deadly force to prevent and/or stop the attack.  His wife was justified in threatening deadly force with her pistol to stop the attack.

Chang has his own personal defensive handgun, a Smith & Wesson M&P .40 caliber, with him.  He did not have it with him because of his employer's restrictions. He was attacked; he almost lost his eye and his life, because his employer wanted him disarmed.

 Image from cbslocal.com

This would be less likely in places Wisconsin and Kansas, where employers are shielded from liability if they respect employees rights to exercise the Second Amendment.  It would have been less likely in  Texas and Florida, where employers are required to respect employees' property rights inside their vehicle, if they allow those vehicles on an Employer's parking lot.

But in Minnesota, there are no such protections.  So Bruce Change almost lost his eye and/or his life to a group of criminal young men who wanted to take his property for their own; and were willing to enforce their taking of his property with deadly force.

Correction: Minnesota protects the rights of permit holders to have guns in their vehicles.

It is time for the Minnesota legislature to recognize and enforce the Second Amendment.  Minnesota is one of only six states that does not have their own protection of the right to keep and bear arms in their state constitution.

It will not happen with the current governor's signature, at least as stand alone legislation.  Mark Dayton is adamantly opposed to Second Amendment rights.  But last year Governor Dayton signed off on gun law reforms that were included as part of the budget bill.  It is possible that could be done again.

As the disarmists say:  If it saves one innocent life...

Definition of  disarmist

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[bgill]

I’m guessing the cops haven’t arrested any of them so they’ll be back at his house or at one of his elderly neighbors’.

[Aliska]

It was, but with a mob like that, she is lucky they didn't try to disarm her. One or more of the mob could have been armed as well.

But she did the only thing she could, and thank heaven, her husband will live to see another day. They might want to think of moving out of there if gamblers take over their driveway like that.

To think years ago I'd take my kids up there to visit a relative, then we'd go off on day trips all over the place in the Twin Cities and surrounding places, even at night. Wouldn't do that now.

Back to the story, I wish she'd had an AR-15 and could have blown them all away (I'm in a pi$$y mood because of what happened in Brussels).

[Mark17]

Unemployed, uneducated, disengaged Somalians maybe?

That was my first thought.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Gun laws are lax here in NV, though you do need to have a permit to conceal carry (which I totally disagree with).

Open carry is perfectly legal, in the car or on your person and no registration.

Gun ranges offer full auto experiences and advertise it everywhere.

Now if we can just keep any more libs from polluting the state.....hope you can do the same in yours ;)

[DennisR]

Hm...sounds like a pack of hyenas, does it not?

[NorthMountain]

Gun laws are lax here in NV

I'm a frequent visitor to NV for business. Unfortunately, my WV permit isn't reciprocated any more. Sucks. But Constitutional Carry is spreading the way Shall Issue did. Keep up the fight.

Now if we can just keep any more libs from polluting the state.....hope you can do the same in yours ;)

It's a challenge. You're too close to California. We're too close to Maryland and Washington, DC.

[Pelham]

[atomic_dog]

[MileHi]

Note that the ability to keep a gun in your car is protected in MN if you have a carry permit.

That sucks.

[Inyo-Mono]

The Dead End Kids maybe?

but they’d be like 100 years old now?

That's about right.

[VeniVidiVici]

You can have a firearm in your vehicle in MN without a permit if it is unloaded and cased.

In Florida you can have loaded gun, holstered (not on your person), in your vehicle. No permit needed.

In Maryland, thanks to O'Malley, you can't have a gun AT ALL, unless it is on an approved list, you pay a fee of over $100 and apply to the state government to own it.

However, this has done nothing to decrease gun crimes in Maryland. But it has done wonders in decreasing gun ownership among the population of law-abiding citizens.

[Fred Hayek]

I lived in Minnestoopid for ten years. People there get the vapors if you even spell out the word g-u-n.
I have even seen people react with fear at the expression aw shoot.

[dp0622]

:) I don’t remember the kid on the right being in “Angels with Dirty Faces” GREAT Cagney movie :)

[barbarianbabs]

Love that show...Fargo

[Noumenon]

“Young men”, eh? We don’t even have to guess.

[Grams A]

I know you were just stating how it is. I just don’t understand why in this day and age every female would not want to carry. Every female that I hang with does. All go with concealed but trust me their weapon is never far from them and always loaded. Quite a group of us go to a local range sometime during the week. We go shopping for ammo, not new clothes. Pretty funny because we’re just a bunch of old, harmless looking gals.

[LMAO]

I lived in Minnestoopid for ten years. People there get the vapors if you even spell out the word g-u-n.
I have even seen people react with fear at the expression aw shoot.

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The Twin Cities is different from the rest of Minn. The rest of the state is pro gun rights.

Tell an Iron Ranger he should give up his gun and watch the reaction

[sheik yerbouty]

0bama’s sons..

[Utilizer]

Note that the ability to keep a gun... ..is protected in MN if you have a carry "permit".

But you MUST have a "permit".

Otherwise YOU are a criminal.

Never mind what the 2nd Amendment states.

If you defend yourself with a weapon without a "permit", then YOU are the evildoer, and the SJWs will hound you to the gates of Barky's residence (Obamo himself) and beyond because the alleged attacker "was just turning his life around!"

Count on it.

[bjorn14]

Two bad she didn’t fire two warning shots about mid chest.