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To: Baynative

It is not only not “happy”, it was stupid.

There are places and events under which you can legally use your weapons.

Under the law, this was not one.


2 posted on 12/27/2018 6:38:17 AM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: old curmudgeon

Well, you say that, but it doesn’t appear as though the local police agree with you. The suspects in the store robbery were apprehended, not the citizens who shot out the tires.

Just saying.


4 posted on 12/27/2018 6:42:33 AM PST by SleeperCatcher
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To: old curmudgeon
Perhaps so but I'm with the "vigilantes" on this one.

Hopefully all the good guys involved had a bad case of amnesia the next morning.

5 posted on 12/27/2018 6:42:37 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: old curmudgeon

Then the law is wrong.


7 posted on 12/27/2018 6:45:24 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true; I have no proof .... but they're true.)
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To: old curmudgeon
>>the driver pulled forward, causing one man confronting him to land on the hood.

After the suspect's car was used as a LETHAL weapon, all bets are off................

8 posted on 12/27/2018 6:46:22 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: old curmudgeon

“Under the law, this was not one.”

Depends on the state law.


12 posted on 12/27/2018 6:52:44 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: old curmudgeon

These guys were pretty much idiots unless they pulled their guns after the car rammed someone.


13 posted on 12/27/2018 6:53:37 AM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: old curmudgeon

I support shooting petty criminals. It will help to steel people’s nerves when serious killing needs to take place.


14 posted on 12/27/2018 7:19:55 AM PST by 10mm
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To: old curmudgeon
It is not only not “happy”, it was stupid.

Nice to see you rise to the defense of the thieves.

15 posted on 12/27/2018 7:20:51 AM PST by IronJack
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To: old curmudgeon
From another version of the story:

"The two shoppers who fired the shots didn’t stick around to talk to officers. Investigators want to talk to those unknown armed bystanders to get their statements."

I bet they would. I suspect the investigators will have to wait a long time.

17 posted on 12/27/2018 7:29:10 AM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: old curmudgeon

“If you’re a lawful citizen and you’re carrying a firearm legally,
and for whatever reason you choose to use your weapon to engage
someone for whatever you perceive the right reason to be, then
you’re obligated to stay and talk to the authorities,” Marysville
Police Commander Mark Thomas told KIRO Radio.

....I guess we’ll see......


19 posted on 12/27/2018 8:26:57 AM PST by deport
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