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Slow response by Dallas police angers armed robbery victim (more than an hour)
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Posted on 05/09/2013 4:46:37 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA

DALLAS — The Dallas Police Department is looking at another possible breakdown in the city's 911 phone system.A store owner called police just before 11 p.m. Sunday to say he had just been robbed and shots were fired, but it took Dallas police nearly 90 minutes to respond.Four robbers, armed with rifles, walked into Pepe’s Grocery Store in the 4800 block of Bernal Dr. Sunday night. The store owner said they demanded money, so he fired his .38 caliber revolver. Then he called 911.He would only talk to News 8 off-camera, because he said he is afraid of retaliation."I called and told them I was robbed, and that I had shot at them and they at me," he said.Police records show the call came in at 11:00 p.m. as a robbery, but wasn't answered by officers until 12:15 a.m. When officers finally arrived, the store was locked."We waited until 11:20 [p.m.], but no one came -- took too long," the owner said. "So, we went home and I took a shower and got a call about 1 a.m."

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1 posted on 05/09/2013 4:46:37 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

Four robbers....one revolver. ...6 bullets....not very good odds...

The store owner needs to upgrade his weapon...

Since the police must have been on a donut run....


2 posted on 05/09/2013 4:52:49 AM PDT by Popman (Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

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3 posted on 05/09/2013 4:54:24 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

When seconds count, the police are only hours away.


4 posted on 05/09/2013 4:59:22 AM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: NRA1995

If this had happened in a blue state with onerous gun laws we know what the outcome would have been.


5 posted on 05/09/2013 5:03:06 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: All

Nobody needs more than 10 bullets to kill a deeeeeeeer!


6 posted on 05/09/2013 5:10:48 AM PDT by Klemper
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To: Red in Blue PA

One dead shop owner....


7 posted on 05/09/2013 5:12:56 AM PDT by Waywardson (I did not vote for that pro-abortionist candidate!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

It appears to be a shift change fiasco, 11 pm...


8 posted on 05/09/2013 5:20:13 AM PDT by deport
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To: aomagrat

Amen to that brother.

The Government is a sponsor of criminals.
They want to give criminals a safe haven by taking guns away from honest citizens.


9 posted on 05/09/2013 5:22:33 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Red in Blue PA
The store owner said they demanded money, so he fired his .38 caliber revolver.

Would any anti-gun liberals care to compare the response time of this guy's .38 with the response time of this town's cops? It only takes one question to distinguish liberals from conservatives: "Which is a better option: injured/dead criminals, or injured/dead shop owners?"

10 posted on 05/09/2013 5:56:00 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Pollster1

Libs don’t want to take responsibility for themselves,
and they are innately ashamed of that.
So, instead of bucking up and showing some character,
they’d rather everyone else was brought down to their level of dependency.

It also has to do with the collective - if you’re capable of defending yourself, you’re not as reliant on the collective, and therefore are weakening it.

Thirdly, if you’re able to defend yourself against criminals,
you’re able to defend yourself against an oppressive state
that is “only out for your own good”.


11 posted on 05/09/2013 6:01:08 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Red in Blue PA
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12 posted on 05/09/2013 6:05:10 AM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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To: Ronald_Magnus

13 posted on 05/09/2013 6:15:57 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gun Control Haiku: Say "Registration" / And they call you paranoid / So say "Privacy")
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To: Red in Blue PA

Who did he really call? Was it the Mexican police?
I am glad he at least had the .38.


14 posted on 05/09/2013 6:18:07 AM PDT by Rannug ("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
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To: Red in Blue PA

Maybe the police were just taking their cue from this Administration - they didn’t bother sending help because it wouldn’t have gotten there in time?


15 posted on 05/09/2013 6:25:09 AM PDT by mrsdeb (I didn't expect THAT to happen.)
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To: MrB

Your post nails leftist “thinking”.


16 posted on 05/09/2013 6:26:16 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Red in Blue PA

The store owner should have reported that he’d been robbed by a seriously wounded 19-year-old Muslim terrrist. He’d have had 9,000 militarized police there immediately, and had half the city locked down for a few days...


17 posted on 05/09/2013 7:09:42 AM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: mrsdeb

zing!!!! well done :)


18 posted on 05/09/2013 8:15:04 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (3 guns when you only have one arm? "I just don't want to get killed for lack of shooting back")
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