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Former Marine Foils Armed Robbery
WXIA-TV / 11Alive.com ^
| 5.30.06
| Michael King
Posted on 05/30/2006 5:16:41 AM PDT by mhking
An ex-Marine pulled out a pocket knife after five people, including a young girl, allegedly tried to rob him late Monday evening in Midtown. That girl died.
Another one of the alleged assailants is in critical condition.
Investigators are calling the case one of self-defense. They say no charges will be filed against the victim in the case.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: anamericansoldier; armedcitizen; attack; banglist; crime; formermarine; marine; nosuchthingexmarine; robbery
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To: Bear_Slayer
This is what happens when street punks face a true warrior. This Leatherneck should give self-defence lessons and I would like to be his first student.
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posted on
05/30/2006 8:34:54 AM PDT
by
oyez
(Appeasement is insanity)
To: dljordan
They were so busy with me that they didn't notice the four Marine friends of mine from school coming up behind them. Guess who got their ass kicked? This is more good news than I can handle in one thread. 8-)
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posted on
05/30/2006 8:37:12 AM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
To: mhking
I am impressed. I like this man.
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posted on
05/30/2006 8:37:42 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I'd like to get a look at this Marine's "pocket knife". Big pockets.
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posted on
05/30/2006 8:39:29 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
To: mhking
Never take a knife to a gun fight....unless there's a Marine attached to the handle of it. - Oorah! BTTT
125
posted on
05/30/2006 8:41:40 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(This is no time for bleeding hearts, pacifists, and appeasers to prevail in free world opinion.)
To: Fee
Now if the ex-Marine was allow to have a CCW permitNo reason why he can't have a GA CCL if he's a GA resident and has no felony record. It isn't hard to get in GA and the cost is low. The restrictions are not good because the CCL law's language is so muddled that a cop or a judge can use his own discretion as to whether or not you are carrying in a prohibited area. Outside of the Atlanta I-285 perimeter most cops and local courts are not anti-gun, and I have never had a problem carrying wherever and whenever I think I need to.
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posted on
05/30/2006 8:42:04 AM PDT
by
epow
(Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend, inside a dog it's too dark to read a book, Groucho)
To: mhking
Their side: Five muggers Two guns
Our side: One Marine One pocketknife
Our side wins. Sounds right to me.
127
posted on
05/30/2006 8:54:06 AM PDT
by
D1X1E
To: fredhead; Fruitbat; mhking
To: Wolfie
Fix the headline! There's no such thing as an ex-Marine. Doesn't Murtha count?
129
posted on
05/30/2006 8:57:21 AM PDT
by
TChris
("Wake up, America. This is serious." - Ben Stein)
To: Smokin' Joe
I'm sure the "young girl" is about 22. Isnt that what the media called Lewinsky, a young girl.
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
05/30/2006 9:37:16 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(I can't complain...but sometimes I still do.)
To: Halgr
To: A Texan
Up close a trained blade fighter is far more lethal then someone with a gun.
To: misterrob
A well-trained Marine in Atlanta, Georgia will help the crime rate to diminish. Good for him.
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posted on
05/30/2006 10:11:31 AM PDT
by
YepYep
To: DaveLoneRanger
Go gettem Gyrene!
A twist for your Armed Citizen ping list, Dave. More detail in linked article at #61.
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posted on
05/30/2006 10:16:59 AM PDT
by
Titan Magroyne
(Suicide Bomb Instructor: "Now pay attention, I'm only gonna do this once...")
To: misterrob
Up close a trained blade fighter is far more lethal then someone with a gun.There really are not very many "trained" blade fighters. Marines are trained very well on mindset, aggression and winning. That training undoubtedly carried him on to the win against these scum moreso than a day or two or three of knife training that he had received.
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posted on
05/30/2006 10:32:58 AM PDT
by
Ghengis
(Alexander was a wuss!)
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To: mhking
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posted on
05/30/2006 10:51:51 AM PDT
by
Ghengis
(Alexander was a wuss!)
To: Ghengis
I have seen a master at work and it is absolutley amazing what they do. Aggression in a knife fight can get you killed if your opponent knows what they are doing.
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