Posted on 11/30/2012 2:24:58 PM PST by DogByte6RER
California Police Wish Gun Owners Would Just Comply with Robbers
If a couple of thugs break into your place of business and point a gun in your face, then you would be perfectly justified in opening fire on them, right? Well, maybe not. San Jose police are giving one gun owner a stern tsk-tsk after she defended her property from a pair of armed thieves.
According to ABC Local 7 News, a pair of thieves wearing masks and hooded sweatshirts burst into a San Jose jewelry store at 10:15 a.m. on Monday. At least one of the would-be thieves was armed.
The thieves probably thought that they were going to make off with a bag full of bling, but instead they nearly caught a bullet. The store owner, who was reportedly a woman, drew a pistol and leveled it at the two would-be thieves. She fired at least one shot but did not strike either of them – it is unclear whether that was a warning shot or if she simply missed.
Either way, the bullet did its job. The two thieves quickly fled the store and made their escape in an SUV. Cops are currently looking for leads on the two suspects. According to Yahoo News, they are examining video surveillance and other tapes for clues.
In the meantime, the police are giving gun owners a piece of their mind. Albert Morales, the San Jose Police spokesman, said, "We don't recommend (drawing a gun or firing). We would have preferred that they just go ahead and comply with the request or demands of the robbers. Again they were after material items that could be replaced and again our biggest fear is that somebody would have gotten hurt, injured and possibly even died."
You know who else would have preferred that the jewelry store owner had just complied? The thieves. Who would’ve thought that cops and robbers would ever be able to agree on something?
Despite this, the police have not pressed charges against the gun owner – probably because all she did was exercise a perfectly legal Constitutional right. The police agree that it's OK to open fire, but they're just expressing how much they dislike it. That isn't a big deal, right?
The problem is that when a statement like that comes from police, the subtle implication is that there’s something inherently immoral or illegal about using a gun in self-defense. It could give people the wrong impression about firearms -- whether that’s intentional or accidental is an entirely different debate.
If Morales should be scolding anybody, it should be the pair of thieves who threatened that woman. The fact of the matter is that there's nothing wrong with using a gun in self-defense as long as you comply with the laws in your locality. The opinion of the San Jose police is simply that -- an opinion.
Why don't you weigh in with your opinion? Did the store owner do the right thing, or should people across America put up their hands and do whatever robbers say? We know that thieves could get behind that slogan, but what do you think?
I wonder how many people have complied only to be killed anyway - no way to tell whether they intend to kill you or if they will decide to later - I’ll take my chances by shooting first.
Well, the citizens are merely responding by redistributing their stock of precious metals, leading to redistribution of the bad guys' plasma and red and white blood cells. So as long as it's all redistributive in sort of a barter-y non-cash way, what's the problem?
I wonder if the mealy mouthed BASTARD would be spouting the same clap trap if the store owner had been shot and killed?
John Lott has done research indicating that most real policemen don't agree with this oily affirmative action flunkie mouthpiece "spokesman."
Most real cops know that in the crunch you will need to protect yourself. If they have to show up later at a crime scene, they'd rather the corpse be the bad guy than the citizen.
The constabulary today would like to be the sole concessionaires to fight crime, even if the would be victim turns the tables..
The constabulary today would like to be the sole concessionaires to fight crime, even if the would be victim turns the tables..
Notice the assumption that the robbers want nothing
more than material items.
Well, the [government employed] predators usually want nothing more than your money, stuff, and freedom, so they're just extrapolating based on their own experience. ;)
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