Posted on 11/15/2023 7:18:10 PM PST by River Hawk
Another Good Samaritan was arrested in New York for intervening against a violent hobo. John Rote witnessed a man attacking a woman on the subway. He yelled at the vagrant to stop, before pulling out a gun and firing warning shots. The shots scared the assailant away, saving the woman from a terrible fate.
Rote was rewarded with a criminal warrant and the woman’s ingratitude. The upstanding citizen was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a firearm, reckless endangerment and menacing.
This story illustrates why so few people want to intervene to help out their fellow citizens. They know they may wind up in jail and detested by the people they saved. It’s a natural effect of living in an atomized society characterized by low-trust and a powerful government.
This story resembles the case of Daniel Penny earlier this year. Penny wrestled a violent black vagrant to the ground on a New York subway car. The assailant was choked out in the process. Penny was arrested and charged with manslaughter for taking down a threat to his fellow passengers. There are some crucial differences between Penny and Rote. Penny didn’t use any weapon to subdue his target. Some of the people he saved publicly defended him and insisted they will testify in his defense. But Penny still pays a hefty price for his good deed. Even if he’s exonerated, he has to pay massive legal bills and have his name ruined as a murderous racist. This act of courage will haunt him for the rest of his life.
That’s the end result of an atomized, low-trust America. We can only change it through radical changes in how we live our lives.
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visit New York.
I, for one, sincerely hope that next time there is nobody with a weapon to traumatize her so terribly. Let the subway trash have at her in the future.
I live in an urban area and have a CCW. I would be VERY selective as to whom I'd intervene for. I've lived here for 30+ years and know a lot of the populace since they were walking around in short pants. I know who's who. But...
Too many Krasner/Kenney voters who'll gladly turn their back on their saviors as soon as danger has passed to bask in the perverted glow of their own "virtue".
Yet a secret service agent, who was guarding Biden’s grand daughter, fires a shot at guy breaking into their car. A completely unjustified shooting. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Live amongst hobos.
Gated communities are more popular for some good reasons.
Upper middle class and rich people don’t use public transportation. Now you have blue collar workers and poor people riding the subway and buses. Tourist come to town and use public transportation. I just feel sorry for the working class in New York.
If you see a crime in progress, an automobile accident, etc., don’t get involved. It’s none of your business.
The Moral of the story: Never, ever fire a warning shot.
A hobo travels and is willing to work and cares for himself. When I was 10 or so, my cousins and I would go down to the hobo camp at the rail yard in Redding California. We would sit around their camp fire and talk to them about where they had been and where they were going. We would then ask them for money so that we could go play pool. They always gave us some.
Times have changed.
Unfreakinbelievable!
what an ungrateful female.
*HR will require the SS agent to retake all his training modules, firearms familiarization training and range qualification, for missing his target.
She should have just kept quiet, if all she wanted to do was criticize the guy who saved her from being attacked and robbed. She couldn’t help herself. Was probably taught that all guns are ‘bad’. Karma may look her up one fine day.
That ungrateful *itch. It IS true after all: no good deed goes unpunished.
Remember hat the car may have been the one that contained their automatic weapons, hand held radios, etc.
Maybe not....maybe so....
May they go Hamas on her ungrateful posterior.
In NYC, "upper middle class" starts at about a quarter of a million dollars per annum.
Regards,
So that justifies firing at the thieves!? Those poor thieves couldn't possibly have know what was in the car, after all!
/sarcasm
NOTE: Those S.S. agents had no more justification / legal right to fire at those thieves than you or I would have had to fire at someone trying to break into our vehicles.
Regards,
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