Melton
Posted on 06/30/2021 7:21:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
Last week a legally armed Papa John’s employee shot and killed a man who attempted to rob the store.
The other suspect is still at large, Clark County Sheriff’s Major Chris Clark told Fox News.
“They came running in with weapons and tried to rob us. … One’s shot and wounded on the floor, one of them ran out,” an employee told a 911 dispatcher after the shooting, according to WHIO-TV. “They had weapons, the one had a big crowbar and the other one looked like a knife and they were sprinting toward us.”
According to Dayton Daily News, the Papa John’s employee who shot the suspect told police that he was a lawful concealed carrier.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office identified the man who died as 21-year-old Gage Melton, according to the local newspaper.
In January Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed an expanded stand your ground law which says “a person has no duty to retreat before using force in self-defense, defense of another, or defense of that person’s residence if that person is in a place in which the person lawfully has a right to be.”
Conceal carry permit holders around the country have had a great track record, with countless examples from a variety of places. Big League Politics has previously reported on various armed civilians stopping crime, including Jack Wilson, the hero who stopped an attempted mass shooting in the Fort-Worth area of Texas. “The survivor, Evan Todd, cited the example of Jack Wilson’s heroics at the Freeway Church of Christ near Fort Worth, Texas, where he stopped a potential mass shooting from taking place. Todd was the first student to be wounded during this shooting rampage that claimed the lives of 13 people. He was allegedly the last person to speak to the two Columbine murderers before they committed suicide.This experience taught Todd the importance of having school security in order to protect students, teachers, and staff. “I stared down the barrel of a gun at Columbine, where 13 people were murdered and almost 30 wounded,” Todd tweeted. “I wished then and now that we had a Jack Wilson that fateful day. The world would be a better place if there were more men and women like Jack Wilson.”
More on that can be found here.
As the saying goes, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun!”
1 dead in O-Hi-O
He’ll be fired, no doubt.
100% certain he will be fired! PJ’s corporate by-laws prohibit firearms, and the franchisee isn’t going to stick their neck out to protect an employee.
(Music sting)
P I Z Z A
It’s fun to eat
P I Z Z A
You can have a thin crust
You can have Hawaiian
Just don’t try to rob Papa Johns!
He didn’t get no pizza dough........................
Don’t bring a crow bar to a gun fight
Growing up in Buffalo, the owner of my favorite Pizza joint always open carried a .38 on his hip. They were never robbed.
“Growing up in Buffalo, the owner of my favorite Pizza joint always open carried a .38 on his hip. They were never robbed.”
We had a local country/convenience store with a great snack bar. Best burgers and dogs around. One day someone grabbed an axe from their hardware section and robbed the place. The next day the owner/operator went and bought handguns for two of his male employees. Between the three at least one armed man was there every hour any employees were there. Never robbed again.
I remember him laughing years later that when they started open carrying shoplifting dropped by some 80%!
I guess no one wanted to tempt the men with the guns.
Melton
Melton cheese?........................
Doubtless that was a photo from his induction into the National Honor Society.
I’m just so glad my driver has a concealed carry,” the 911 caller said. “Because I wouldn’t know what to do with them running in like that.”
MELTON, Gage W. 21, of New Carlisle passed away on Sunday, June 20, 2021. He was born December 17, 1999, in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Donald W. and Billie (Prater) Melton. Gage enjoyed fishing, cars and skateboarding but above everything he loved spending time with family and friends.
And catching bullets, apparently.
Don’t forget the bizarre, slowed down, “stoner” version of “Gimme Pizza”, by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wusGIl3v044
Hope his resume is up to date.
Good guy wins, bad guy dead, that other robber on the loose but living in fear.
Papa John’s is racists, they only wanted a FREE pizza, it the racist Papa John’s hired a racist, so he shot those innocent people... 🤓
Yes, but he’s alive and unscathed.
If he loses his job, he should wear that like a badge of honor.
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