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Concealed Weapon Keeps Man Safe in Attempted Carjacking
KSL TV ^ | 12/6/06 | Amanda Butterfield

Posted on 12/06/2006 7:23:18 PM PST by skyman

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Another example why everyone should have the right to concealed carry.
1 posted on 12/06/2006 7:23:21 PM PST by skyman
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To: DaveLoneRanger

IBTP


2 posted on 12/06/2006 7:25:01 PM PST by xrp (Republicans Message: Vote for us, we suck less than Democrats.)
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To: soccer8

"In many states, including Utah where concealed permit is allowed, violent crimes have gone down significantly."


3 posted on 12/06/2006 7:27:12 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: skyman
Taylor is very lucky -- and very stupid.

If someone had told me that he was going to kill me, I wouldn't have drawn my gun and called police. I would have drawn my gun, shot to stop the assailant and then called police & my self-defense lawyer.

If the dude was close enough to continuously ask for a ride, then he was close enough to brandish his own weapon, even if it was a knife and cover the distance to injure or kill Taylor before Taylor had been able to react, draw and fire.

4 posted on 12/06/2006 7:27:58 PM PST by xrp (Republicans Message: Vote for us, we suck less than Democrats.)
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To: Hazcat; skyman
Bump.

Another example why everyone should have the right to concealed carry.

5 posted on 12/06/2006 7:29:40 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: xrp

"If the dude was close enough to continuously ask for a ride, then he was close enough to brandish his own weapon, even if it was a knife and cover the distance to injure or kill Taylor before Taylor had been able to react, draw and fire."

Yup, although in this instance he saves the lawyer money.


6 posted on 12/06/2006 7:30:21 PM PST by driftdiver
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To: skyman
Mr. Taylor survived his encounter, that's good.

It's a shame the thug is still at large and still capable of murdering his next victim when he steals their car.

I call this a win/lose.
7 posted on 12/06/2006 7:31:52 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: xrp
If someone had told me that he was going to kill me, I wouldn't have drawn my gun and called police. I would have drawn my gun, shot to stop the assailant and then called police & my self-defense lawyer.

If I had to shoot in self-defense, I'd shoot to kill.

8 posted on 12/06/2006 7:32:32 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Karl Rove isn't magnificent.)
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To: Paleo Conservative
If I had to shoot in self-defense, I'd shoot to kill.

Well, you know that and I know that, but weak-stomached juries might hear that coming out of your mouth and think "COLD BLOODED MURDERER!"

9 posted on 12/06/2006 7:33:51 PM PST by xrp (Republicans Message: Vote for us, we suck less than Democrats.)
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To: glock rocks; Pete-R-Bilt; B4Ranch

SLC ping...


10 posted on 12/06/2006 7:34:24 PM PST by tubebender (Growing old is mandatory...Growing up is optional)
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To: skyman

Wow, this story almost sounds objective. Has to be a local Utah station because no way you hear this in most markets!


11 posted on 12/06/2006 7:34:33 PM PST by Skywalk (Transdimensional Jihad!)
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To: skyman

Thank you KSL!


12 posted on 12/06/2006 7:40:24 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: xrp

You might reconsider calling the police after you peg a perp
the cops would rather you didnt defend yourself you are
horning in on their action. If I ever have to waste good ammo on some thug Im not going to stick around and wait for the uniformed thugs to show up.


13 posted on 12/06/2006 7:48:44 PM PST by claptrap (We've found a Witch can we burn her?)
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To: skyman
Concealed Weapon Keeps Man Safe in Attempted Carjacking

Seems to me it was most effective once revealed. Maybe I'm just nitpicking.

14 posted on 12/06/2006 7:55:31 PM PST by edpc (Violence is ALWAYS a solution. Maybe not the right one....but a solution nonetheless)
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To: skyman

This is why in Utah you should have a concealed weapons permit for TWO small pistols, one for you to shoot the perp threatening your life absolutely graveyard dead, and the SECOND weapon to put into their hands (if they don't have one of their own) after they (ahem) "wrestled it out of your grasp", good thing you had a backup weapon. ;)


15 posted on 12/06/2006 8:02:56 PM PST by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: skyman

"going for his cell phone to call 9-111."
Ya better be carrying. I don't think that number will get you much help!


16 posted on 12/06/2006 8:12:15 PM PST by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: skyman
Another example why everyone should have the right to concealed carry.

Without even reading any further down the thread, allow me to add my own sentiments that you already DO have such a Right.

Right now, we just have a bunch of bureaucrats and their enforcers keeping us from doing so without first going through the "guilty until proven innocent" licensing scheme.

17 posted on 12/06/2006 8:19:40 PM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.)
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To: Paleo Conservative
You don't shoot to kill. You shoot to live.

Double tap center mass. One to the head. Call 911.

18 posted on 12/06/2006 8:20:58 PM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.)
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To: george76

Thanks for the ping.


19 posted on 12/06/2006 8:25:42 PM PST by Hazcat (Live to party, work to afford it.)
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To: skyman

The more people carry, the safer all of us are -- crime goes down when criminals are know citizens can and will shoot them...


20 posted on 12/06/2006 8:26:22 PM PST by GOPJ (Male homosexuality-worse for your health than sugar, transfats, obesity, and SUV's together.)
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