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Cops Kill Man In Wal-Mart Carrying An Air Rifle That He Might Have Planned To Buy
Daily Caller ^ | August 7, 2014 | Chuck Ross

Posted on 08/10/2014 4:09:15 PM PDT by grundle

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To: grundle

Does WalMart have security camera footage of this incident?


21 posted on 08/10/2014 4:30:14 PM PDT by csvset
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To: grundle

This whole incident never had to happen. It really does seem the default mode today is ‘Shoot first, then shoot again, if they are still alive, ask any questions at that point”. The busybody who made that call to the police should feel lower than whale sht by now. What Mr. or Ms Busybody should have done is contact the manager or even a nearby cashier. They might have recognized their own merchandise.


22 posted on 08/10/2014 4:30:17 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: grundle
I would like to hear the 911 call, and see the in-store video before the call.
Someone messed up, or the caller lied and got someone killed.

Either way this should not have happened.

23 posted on 08/10/2014 4:34:18 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: grundle

What is up with these cops these days, is it now shoot first, ask questions later??


24 posted on 08/10/2014 4:37:07 PM PDT by JSDude1
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To: ricmc2175

Or give them each one round, make them carry it in their shirt pocket and ask permission before loading the pistol.


25 posted on 08/10/2014 4:38:08 PM PDT by I-ambush (Don't let it bring you down, it's only castles burning)
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To: grundle

He was black. Ruh roh.


26 posted on 08/10/2014 4:42:28 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: grundle

symptomatic of a murderous rich criminal society where cops view and treat everyone as a criminal. The cops are now so afraid for their own lives that they just kill citizens whom they must instantly judge by what they see. This can only get worse and I can’t help but think the astronomical level of corruption throughout DC only propagates more crime on our streets.


27 posted on 08/10/2014 4:45:59 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: Ann Archy

Read the link and what I posted. The Ritches “saw a man walking the aisles carrying what they thought was a real gun, pointing it toward the sky. The couple called 911.
The couple said they followed Crawford at a safe distance. “Anytime I saw people walking his way, I would get their attention,””


28 posted on 08/10/2014 4:54:42 PM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

OMG!!!!! Was it HIS gun or was it to be PUrchased??????


29 posted on 08/10/2014 4:56:17 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: bgill

And what was the man’s demeanor as he walked through the store with the air gun?


30 posted on 08/10/2014 4:59:12 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: csvset

They mist likely have captured some of it. I doubt they have 100% coverage of the entire sales floor all the time.


31 posted on 08/10/2014 5:05:11 PM PDT by matt04
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To: blackdog

“No way, kid - you’ll shoot your eye out!”


32 posted on 08/10/2014 5:09:53 PM PDT by Castlebar
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To: gaijin

i believe this is now a strategy the left is using against gun owners.

cops more than happy to oblige in most cases.


33 posted on 08/10/2014 5:12:23 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ricmc2175

There’s also the Barney Fife solution


34 posted on 08/10/2014 5:14:55 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: null and void

JBT’s now is stock at your local Wallyworld...


35 posted on 08/10/2014 5:15:10 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: grundle

May have been a toy, but cops were called by a hysterical woman that a guy was pointing an assault rifle at children inside the store. She probably didn’t mention they were all in the toy section.


36 posted on 08/10/2014 5:16:00 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Up yours IRS!)
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To: grundle

Holy Cow !!!!!
I bought a Crosman air rifle at Walmart yesterday.
I guess I was taking my life in my hands.
It is very strange though.
Walmart does not have any air rifles out where you can touch them. They are in sealed cardboard boxes and need to be cut open.
The model they said he had is sold in a plastic blister pack that is really hard to open, even with scissors or a knife.
Something doesn’t make sense.


37 posted on 08/10/2014 5:16:11 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Unarmed people cannot defend themselves. America is no longer a Free Country.)
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To: lightman

I saw my former neighbor on the news the other night escorting some Hamas cheerleaders out of the Ann Arbor city council meeting.

He then explained that they were free to chant all they want out on the sidewalk but they would not be allowed to disrupt the council meeting. The city council refused to even vote on a boycott of Israel so the protesters were throwing a tantrum.


38 posted on 08/10/2014 5:17:01 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: Dogbert41

Crazy coincidence, but in my local WM, the gun counter actually is right next to the toy dept.


39 posted on 08/10/2014 5:19:25 PM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: lee martell
This whole incident never had to happen. It really does seem the default mode today is ‘Shoot first, then shoot again, if they are still alive, ask any questions at that point”.

Unless it's illegal aliens, in which case it's Don't shoot! They're only children… or tweens&hallip; or early-middle-aged people!
Apparently you can't shoot them because it's morally indefensible to assert your country's (or state's) sovereignty, or the obligation to protect the populous from invaders. (and it's apparently verbotten to bring up the fact that something like 40% of all federal felonies investigated are in the counties abutting the southern border.)

40 posted on 08/10/2014 5:20:13 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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