Posted on 12/26/2015 9:03:00 PM PST by richardb72
Macon, Georgia, December 26, 2015:
A Warner Robins man told police that he shot and killed a man who tried to rob him.
According to police, it happened around 8:10 p.m. on Christmas night on the 100 block of Oakridge Drive.
. . . Antonio Bagley, 29, told [police] Jerrell Walker tried to rob him so he fired his pistol at him. Walker later died from a gunshot wound to the torso.
Bagley has not been charged, and the case is still under investigation. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at crimeresearch.org ...
Guns Are EvilTM
There are probably countless and unreported times a firearm stopped a bad situation. There is no real database of such activity.
Didn’t hear about this in atl ga news.Not surprised
Not sure if a dog attack counts as a violent crime.
Good day all around.
I’m glad to hear that those intended victims were not the victims after all.
Nothing like a little attrition to keep crime down. They won’t be repeat offenders.
Sounds like those news stories from the Armed Citizen column in the NRA’s magazines. One of funniest ones I read was 20 years ago from Allentown, PA. An older woman heard some noise outside her living room window, she yelled out “Who’s there?!?” and someone started banging on her window. She grabbed a shotgun and yelled out that she was armed. She then heard breaking glass and fired away, there were screams, then dead silence. According to the police report, detectives found what “appeared to be a trail of human fecal matter” leading from the broken window to the woods behind the house.
Great news, great site. Thanks for posting. It’s your life BUMP!
A couple of weeks ago I was in a motel when I heard scratching sounds at the slider leading to the balcony at 0430. I also saw light around the edges of the curtain. I grabbed my pistol, opened the curtain and pointed it at two thugs, with the barrel lightly hitting the glass. Those two thugs immediately jumped over the railing and ran like crazy. Even though the police were called, this incident didn't make the police blotter in the local paper and will never be known to the general public. But it was just one of several million examples of a crime being stopped by the presence of a firearm without a shot being fired.
The police report released to the public deliberately left out a lot of detail, because they were still looking for him. He's now in prison for 67 years. But at no time was there public mention of the use of a firearm to prevent anything.
In reality, I'll bet guns are used far more to stop crimes or in self defense than they are used for bad purposes.
A valid method of decreasing prison overcrowding.
“There is no real database of such activity.”.
Do we think for one minute the libs would want to publish that? It would destroy their entire gun grabbers movement.
...and other one bites the dust.
There are probably thousands of incidents where just patting your side or jacket pocket backed off a bad situation...
Personally I was involved in a road rage incident where the nut started pounding on my driver window, all I did was make a gun sign out of my hand and pointed to to my seat...
He got the message quickly...
Yep - and no telling how many the mere presence of a gun/suspected gun may stop before they start - the bad guys like easy pickings.
Ask the beagle.
Most people don’t report lest THEY become the criminal and have their guns confiscated for their safety...
Hmmm ..?? I do think there are stats to support firearms stopping crime.
Check with the NRA .. I’m pretty sure they have a lot of data.
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