FL: Man Shoots Large Gator near Horses; Gator Attacks, Shooter Charged

Gun Watch ^ | 19 August 2016 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Alligators can move amazingly fast for short distances.

[mom4melody]

Shoot, shovel and shut-up....

[Joe Boucher]

Blanton, being a good old Florida boy would have 1st taken the cheeks.
Just saying.

[Carthego delenda est]

“Animal attacks are usually far less of a problem to justify than shooting a human, and for many good reasons.”

Doesn’t Florida have a “stand your ground” law? Guess that doesn’t apply to dangerous animals with more that two legs.

[jsanders2001]

I imagine he was really charged for the offense of 'defending one's property with a gun while being a white man' but they would never admit it. We now live in the Twight Zone in Obamaland. A white man is required to sit back and do nothing if attacked and should just let the attackers take whatever they want, right?

I'm glad the people in his community came to his rescue and stopped the insanity.

[PIF]

“A white man is required to sit back and do nothing if attacked and should just let the attackers take whatever they want, right?”

Yep. That’s the same ROE that US combat soldiers face under this admin ... Can only shoot back after they take casualties ...

[jsanders2001]

< "It is another good reason to avoid shooting if there is a reasonable alternative"

If there's an animal like an alligator or a bear trying to kill you I don't think "shoo" is going to work (I hate stupid journalism when they make statements like this )

[SatinDoll]

Good thing it wasn’t a grey wolf; it is illegal to shoot one, even in self-defense or protecting your children.

[mylife]

FT FWC!

[PeterPrinciple]

The charges came from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and may have involved a missing piece of alligator tail.

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Missing piece of alligator tail, isn’t that the part that is good on the grill?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Needed a rifle

[Popman]

I imagine he was really charged for the offense of 'defending one's property with a gun while being a white man' but they would never admit it.

Nay, I would bet loads of money, some animal rights organization (libtards) was pestering the crap out of the FWC (filled with bureaucrats) to do "something"...

Considering it took six weeks to finally arrest this highly dangerous criminal, they were making a statement...

Then they realized the crap was going to hit the fan and backed off...

You are correct though, if it was a non-white...crickets..

[OKSooner]

"His stepson then arrived and got about eight feet away from the alligator when it suddenly attacked. “Whenever he raised up after my stepson, it looked like he was shot out of a cannon. I had never seen nothing like it...”

All of a sudden I think if I ever move to gator country I'm going to leave the 9mm on the shelf and pack some kind of 357 - a real one, not some J-frame.

That and keep a 12 gauge with slugs in the truck.

[kschockeynut87]

Simply put ... If I saw THAT on my property, I’d have shot the bloody thing too! Fish & Wildlife can come and haul it off and if they didn’t like it they can just STFU and bugger off!

[jch10]

FWC has way too much power.

[NonValueAdded]

Florida ping, please. Activism needed.

Note well the shooting itself was not the charge but rather the FWC flexing its muscle using possession of alligator parts as the charge. FLORIDIANS TAKE NOTE.

7 commissioners, next meeting Sept 8-9 in St. Augustine. Commissioners are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state senate.

That said, Sumter County voters should take note of the judge that set a ridiculous bail and make sure that berk is retired from the bench.

[Flick Lives]

You cannot assume that you are legally in the clear, even if the local authorities have not charged you. There are thousands of statutes on the books, and more thousands (mostly federal) are added each year. It is becoming increasingly difficult to know if you are breaking the law or not.

Government is the terrorist. Keep citizens in a state of fear in their day to day existence. Everything you do is crime. That is the State's hold over you.

[OldSmaj]

Missing piece of alligator tail, isn’t that the part that is good on the grill?

Requires great skill to cook correctly on a grill.

It's like a huge chunk of white-meat chicken.

Look at it too hard and it will dry up to shoe leather consistency.

I marinate them, aggressively, for several days in a pressurized apparatus (more correctly, de-pressurized) and either cut into chunks for kabob or breaded and deep-fried or slice very thinly and grill lightly.

Novices should stick with just a sauce piquant...much easier to NOT screw it up.

Extremely tasty, either way.

I have a friend in Louisiana that supplies me with various cuts.

I think gator should be as common as chicken on a menu.

Good stuff.

[bigredkitty1]

Amen!

[ExSES]

Absolute RULE TO LIVE BY: "Shoot, Shovel and, SHUT UP!"