3 Women Shot During Possible Bank Robbery in Fort Worth, suspects still at-large

If nobody there was injured other than your son, you’re talking about executing him for scaring people.

What he did was terribly wrong, but you don’t execute someone because they brandished, when they’ve already been shot and are lying unconscious on the ground.

If the kid is still trying to threaten the pharmacist, then sure, you should accept that he got what he deserved.

If he was “out cold”, and lying on the floor, You needn’t buy into him being executed just because he royally screwed up at the beginning. It still needs to be for cause, and that wouldn’t be an execution.

He shouldn’t die from an execution. He has to die from a defensive move.

Thank you for the discussion.

I understand where you are coming from, and I’m sure you’re not the only person to think along those lines.

Take care.

Officers are still searching for the gunmen in the area. Britt did not have a description of them and said it’s not yet clear if they got away on foot or in a car.

Ok, so no clue who they're looking for but maybe they'll see someone walking down the street with bank bags leaving a trail of cash.

Rockford has gone from the All American City. (In 1950 or so Life to a front page photo spread on life in Rockford the positive role model city. Today it is one of America's most violent and crime ridden. What happened?

I feel about Rockford the way some old Soviet emigres felt about Russia. There is an inexplicable attachment.

Before I left Rockford, I managed to see traces of the "old" Rockford. Was it in the Sweet Pans Shoppe, with thousands of disorganized dessert molds of every possible type?
Or maybe Elek-Tek, the electronics store that never seemed to discard old inventory and still carried FM radio adapters for AM only car radios and 45 RPM record inserts.
Could it be the ancient jeweler who has the documentation proudly mounted that proved that his Canadian grandfather immigrated and served in the Union Army?
Or maybe the Nicholson Hardware store, housed in a two story automobile dealership that dated back to 1906 with wood block floors, and a staff that knew all about hardware.
I cannot forget the semi-retired Zoltan, the Pfaff sewing machine merchant/repairmen who still spoke with a thick German accent 50 years after immigrating. He won me over when I described my grandmother's 19th century Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine. He had the same model in his mini-museum of sewing machines, and told me the story of how its bobbin was a great advance, and that her's was a historically significant sewing machine.

Those were all nice, but what got us to Rockford in the first place was St. Mary Oratory, the 135 year old traditional Roman Catholic church in the dying downtown, that Canon Bovee nicknamed "St. Mary between the jails". This was literally true, though on one side the Ethel Wattles Treatment Center also stands, occasionally providing interesting persons for our coffee and doughnut time after Mass. We chose Rockford for this Church, and Bishop Doran offered this Church to the Institute of Christ the King because it, the last beautiful building downtown, probably would have been shuttered had it not been made available for the exclusive use of the Traditional Roman Catholic Rites and Sacraments. It was one of the very first of its kind. Unlike St. Agnes in New York and small part-time Traditional Mass churches in places like New Haven, the congregation was not comprised of intellectuals or aesthetes, but of regular folks trying to be good Catholics, just like the old line jeweler and the electronics supplier who didn't believe in obsolescence. Even the non-Catholics who were from the area, the old-timers, often had something special. Our next-door neighbors, sisters Pearl and Crystal, gave us 100 year old Rockford Furniture Company furniture, rather than be insulted by the antique dealer in town. You can see in the craftsmanship of the dressers and bed frames that Rockford was a place of proud artisans. I am happy that I got to see the embers and smell the last wafts of drifting smoke from that era.

It is counterintuitive, but part of the fall of Rockford had to do with the short-sightedness of the leading men from that era. When Interstate 90 was being put up, these men did NOT want the highway to go through Rockford, so it wasn't, and that meant the comparatively thriving locus of the city moved to the eastern edge, close to where I-90 breaks north to Wisconsin.

When it was time to put up a new U of Illinois campus, Rockford didn't want it. I had heard the local industry leaders didn't want the offspring of the factory workers to go to college and deplete the local labor pool. Dekalb got it instead. Now we have neither the factories nor the college. Finally, a massive lawsuit over purported school segregation turned into a grudge match which diverted Rockford's treasury to lawyers and courts, with the easily anticipated side effect of chasing the tax base out of town to Cherry Valley, Loves Park, Belvedere, Pecatonica, or out of the area entirely.

Even after we moved there in 1998, Rockford was snake-bit, as Hope VI moved displaced Chicago Cabrini Green residents into little Rockford. We didn't need a higher calibre of professional public housing residents. Since we moved, the slot machine parlours have taken the place of many former businesses, with names like Molly's and Helen's, providing a maternal framework in order to take the little money the customers may have in exchange for a quick hit of adrenaline, or a passing, false hope.

But the Church is still there, and so are the people. A small lay-run Catholic school formed by St. Mary's members, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Academy (OLSHA) provides some genuine hope amidst the rubble, as well.

We are moving to Phoenix, not back to Rockford, but one of the reasons Phoenix made the final cut, is because of the inexpensive flights to the small Rockford airport from the small Phoenix airport. We cannot cut ourselves off completely.

Tha actual article says attempted bank robbery.

FORT WORTH, Texas - Three employees were shot during an attempted bank robbery in the Arlington Heights neighborhood of Fort Worth Thursday morning

I daily carry full-size Kimber 1911s, each in their own Galco Fed 212 Paddle Holster and a Galco® Paddle Dual 8-Round Mag Carrier for 2 add'l Premium 8-Round Wilson Combat Magazines, to fire 230gr Hollow-Points.

Both Kimbers have Crimson Trace Laser grips.

The 1975 Colt Trooper .357 Magnum has a Bianchi Shoulder Holster. No pics of that rig, but here's the Colt. Bought it at Tamiami Gun Shop, in Miami, after I got out of the hospital's overnight stay, after the shooting up in West Palm Bch.

Like an idiot, I passed-up several Pythons at $150 more than I paid for the Trooper MkIII ($175). Just didn't have the extra money back then.

Thanks. I have a .357/.38 but the holster set is a joke. It is a big gun to carry around even here in very pro-gun Louisiana.

I have a Henry Big Boy Classic, chambered in .357mag, and it’s nice they share ammo, Hornady .158gr HPs. That pistol is a handful, except under a winter or fall coat, but I’m quite proficient with it. I’m going to have to look into belt rigs, one of these days.