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Deputies: Man tried to steal gun to "rescue Terri Schiavo"
AP ^ | 3.25.05

Posted on 03/25/2005 12:34:02 AM PST by ambrose

Posted on Fri, Mar. 25, 2005

Deputies: Man tried to steal gun to "rescue Terri Schiavo"

Associated Press

SEMINOLE, Fla. - A man was arrested after trying to steal a weapon from a gun shop so he could "take some action and rescue Terri Schiavo," authorities said.

Michael W. Mitchell, of Rockford, Ill., entered Randall's Firearms Inc. in Seminole just before 6 p.m. Thursday with a box cutter and tried to steal a gun, said Marianne Pasha, a spokeswoman for the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.

Mitchell, 50, told deputies he wanted to "take some action and rescue Terri Schiavo" after he visited the Pinellas Park hospice where she lives, Pasha said.

The feeding tube that has kept Schiavo alive for more than a decade was removed March 18 over objections from her parents. Schiavo's husband has said his wife would not want to be kept alive artificially.

Doctors have said she would probably die within a week or two of the tube being pulled.

Randy McKenzie, the owner of Randall's Firearms, said Mitchell pulled out the box cutter and broke the glass on a couple of display cases.

"He told me if I wasn't on Terri's side then I wasn't on God's side, either," McKenzie told The Associated Press.

McKenzie said he then pointed his own gun at Mitchell and ordered him to lie on the ground. But Mitchell fled out the store's back door before police arrived, he said.

Mitchell was later arrested in a parking lot and was scheduled to appear in court Friday. He was being held on $125,000 bond on charges of attempted armed robbery, aggravated assault and criminal mischief, officials said.

It was not known if he had a lawyer.

Seminole is about 5 miles west of Pinellas Park.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; donutwatch; gunshop; gunstore; insanity; schiavo; terri; terrischiavo; wwmd
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To: Walkin Man
You think this nut was justified in robbing an innocent businessman with a deadly weapon to get an even deadlier weapon and go to the Florida hospice and probably kill one or more of the police officers guarding the place.

Is that correct?

Now why would you think 'that is correct', when I explicitly said "I don't condone violence"?

61 posted on 03/25/2005 4:33:51 AM PST by AmericaUnited (Most local community colleges have nighttime remedial reading comprehension classes)
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To: AmericaUnited

No one here is pro death. We don't want Terri to die, but we are accepting reality.

I asked you to provide links, because I knew you couldn't do it.

That's exactly what I expected from you.


63 posted on 03/25/2005 4:40:01 AM PST by texasflower ("America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one." President George W. Bush 01/20/05)
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To: AmericaUnited
Because after you said you don't condone violence you seemed to admire the armed robber/Terri supporter for his "rescue attempt".

But maybe I read you wrong, if so I apologize.

64 posted on 03/25/2005 4:45:05 AM PST by Walkin Man
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To: acromion
Because you can persist in tube-feeding someone way beyond when they should have been just let go.

Well now here we come to the critical point, shorn of confusion about autonomic life support. They should have just been let go. It is this decision to let some one die a painful death when only food, water and primary care are required that is the nub of the case.

65 posted on 03/25/2005 4:53:47 AM PST by agere_contra
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To: ambrose

LOL!!


66 posted on 03/25/2005 4:56:26 AM PST by DaGman
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To: newzjunkey

Its insanity. They get nuttier by the day. I had planned to go to the Rally in April till they included Schiavvo in the mix.

I am against Judges making law, but these Judges are following the law and taking massive heat for it.


68 posted on 03/25/2005 4:59:02 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: acromion
Clearly a painless shot is the better option for a quick, merciful death. But that's not legal yet.

Aha. This is probably best reposted here.

69 posted on 03/25/2005 5:02:28 AM PST by agere_contra
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To: ambrose
Subject: Shiavo review of guardianship

Governor Jeb Bush, jeb.bush@myflorida.com

Friday, March 25, 2005

The court, in 1997 when Michael announced he was'engaged' should have immediately conducted a guardianship hearing and transfered Terri to State guardianship. Because of this failure, we are in the present situation.

Questions you might consider:

(1) Why did Michael choose to 'ignore' her wishes for nearly 7 years until 1997 when he announced he was'engaged' to Jodi Centonze and 'suddenly' remembered the conversation about life support with Terri from years before?

Michael Schiavo answer would probably rationalize that it took that long before he realized there was 'no hope for recovery...'

(2) However, the 1992 malpractice suit for $20 million was based on the premise/conclusion that Terri would NOT recover and she would require constant medical care for the remainder of her life estimated by Michael Shiavo and his laywers to be 51 years(which is the normal life expectancey)...Where were her WISHES at that time?

(3) The court, in 1997 when Michael announced he was'engaged' should have immediately conducted a guardianship hearing and transfered Terri to State guardianship, at a minimum because of the obvious conflict of interest on the part of Michael Shiavo.

The court system failed to act at that point, and that is a major factor on why we are at the point we are today.

Guardianship, by law and practice, is determined to be given to that person who is most heavily 'biased' in favor of the disabled person. Under most conditions this would be the spouse. However, most prudent courts, if during the guardianship period, the appointed guardian by circumstances or accident tilts the 'bias' away from the interest of the person so guarded, would conduct and immediate review, and at a minimum, transfer guardianship to the appropriate State agency.

hope this is useful

Van & Katherine Jenerette

North Myrtle Beach, SC

Professor, Political Science, SCC

Associate, Sociology, Coastal Carolina University, South Carolina

70 posted on 03/25/2005 5:33:31 AM PST by kjenerette (Jenerette for Senate - www.jenerette.com - U.S. Army Desert Storm)
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To: ambrose

Truth666?


71 posted on 03/25/2005 5:34:56 AM PST by verity (The Liberal Media and the ACLU are America's Enemies)
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To: AntiGuv

He's a resident of Illinois, he can't buy a gun in Florida. (Unless he has it shipped to a Licensed Firearms dealer in Illinois.)


72 posted on 03/25/2005 5:46:25 AM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Aim small, miss small.)
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To: HitmanNY
"Nice to know our side has its share of whackjobs."

There's no shortage of people with good intentions but lacking the wherewithal to know they're doing more harm than good for their cause.
73 posted on 03/25/2005 6:13:17 AM PST by Smartaleck
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To: ambrose

"Okay... what's his screen name??"

ROFLMBO

BTT


74 posted on 03/25/2005 6:14:28 AM PST by Smartaleck
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To: HitmanNY

well then...I think his punishment should be starvation and no water. Judges will definitely agree.


75 posted on 03/25/2005 6:14:35 AM PST by smiley
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To: The Red Zone

"Yeah, we know you collect every story that makes the save Terri crowd look bad."

And only the Terri crowd can make the Terri crowd look "bad."

Good intentions gone bad. It happens.


76 posted on 03/25/2005 6:17:00 AM PST by Smartaleck
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To: Smartaleck; malakhi; Trinity_Tx; Peach; Howlin
Are any of the people whio support Michael Schiavo doing anything like this?

(Crickets)

The Terri Pitchfork Brigades are doing an awesome job making themselves look like lunatics all on their own.

77 posted on 03/25/2005 7:05:04 AM PST by Long Cut ("Do not take me for some conjurer of cheap tricks!")
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To: ambrose
There will be more of these people.

No justice, no peace.

78 posted on 03/25/2005 7:20:46 AM PST by BobS
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To: BobS

Peter tried something like this, albeit with a sword.

It was the wrong idea then, too.


79 posted on 03/25/2005 8:17:29 AM PST by MeanWestTexan
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To: newzjunkey

Quote: Trying to steal a gun, had people using their kids and even a bomb threat. I expect more of the same to co

Kinda reminds me of the old palestinine men who send in the their children as suicide bombers.


80 posted on 03/25/2005 8:19:47 AM PST by superiorslots
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