Posted on 02/18/2019 9:09:05 AM PST by Red Badger
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) -- A Tennessee man is in jail after being accused of pulling a gun on a Sam's Club customer Saturday.
According to the police report, officers were called to Sam's Club due to a person with a gun.
According to the alleged victim Terry Pierce, a man pulled a gun on him because he was wearing a Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat.
"I have as much right to wear that hat and support my country and my president as he has not to," said Pierce.
The police report confirms that the suspect, identified as James Phillips, admitted to flipping off Pierce and Pierce's wife because of their hats.
Pierce tells 13 News that he was shopping with his wife when Phillips "Pulled a .40 caliber out and stuck it in my face, backed up and said, 'It's a good day for you to die.'"
Pierce went on to tell 13 News, "I said, 'Then pull the trigger. Put the gun down and fight me or pull the trigger. Whichever one you want.' And he backed up and he said it again, he said, 'It's a good day for you to die.'"
Pierce said the Phillips then took off. That's when Pierce followed him out into the parking lot.
"I went out the front of the store to confront him again and that's when I got him in his car. He couldn't leave because his mother was still in the store. And we were having a verbal altercation outside," said Pierce.
Pierce added, "He tried telling me I assaulted him and I said, 'I never touched you.'"
According to the police report, surveillance video confirms Pierce's story that he did not put his hands on Phillips.
The report does mention that witnesses and Pierce said Phillips pulled a gun on Pierce inside the store but this couldn't be seen on surveillance video due to Phillips backing out of the view of the camera.
In the report, police say Phillips had a Glock .40 caliber with a round chambered in his back pocket and two additional magazines in another pocket. Police say Phillips has a current concealed carry permit in Tennessee, where he is from.
No one was injured, but police arrested Phillips for wanton endangerment first degree. Phillips is in the Warren County Regional Jail.
We will update this story as we learn more.
I wouldn't venture a guess seeing as how he called it perfectly. I also wouldn't be so bold as to call him a knucklehead, given the results.
I think you mean Phillips. He was the one swinging his piece around, shooting his mouth off.
Pierce already dared the MAGA hat hater to shoot him, then challenged him to a fistfight. The hater retreated & then Pierce knew he was a coward. The confrontation in the parking lot was anticlimax.
Reckless courage? Maybe; I’ll spend the rest of today wondering how I would have acted. No MAGA hat yet, but I wear a jacket with NRA on the pocket & a Vietnam vet cap which have gotten me dirty looks (from Muslims!) but no action so far.
Oops, my bad. You are correct.
Out on probation with his CCW gone and his right to bear arms gone.
I kinda like my Moshe shirt. Just to remind the other side there are guys on our side who have no compunction about personally shooting them.
Little Man Syndrome is a real disorder. I’m related to a couple of guys that have it. They are major league a$$holes.
I was waiting outside a business in at 0930 in Damascus MD and some guy -about same age- walks to his truck with a MAGA hat on.
I waited until I knew both hands were busy (unlocking his truck) and YELLED....
“THAT HAT”...with the proper pause for effect,
“AMEN BROTHER, it and you are the greatest”
Heads turned, some with a ‘knowing smile’ and some with ‘disgust’....
He said “I get just enough crap for it and really pees off a lot of people. It does the job”
I pointed to my ‘Vietnam Vet-USNavy’ cap and told him I knew exactly what he meant....
We shook hands
Probably shouldn’t have done or said anything as the state of MD doesn’t appreciate me exercising my right to concealed carry or recognize my VA ‘ticket’ so I have to be (more) careful about being confrontational
I know it’s real.
I’ve known several with it.
It usually involves consumption of alcohol.................
I wonder just how many FReepers even would recognize or know who Moshe Dayan was.
I have only gotten good comments from wearing my MAGA hat.
I tell people the real magic of the hat is not who it attracts, but who it keeps away...………………….
When I get a good comment, I ask them where their hat is. Most say it is home, they can’t wear it because of work.
The eyepatch kind of gives it away.
” I wouldn’t venture a guess seeing as how he called it perfectly. I also wouldn’t be so bold as to call him a knucklehead, given the results. “
SERIOUSLY ?!?
So if Pierce had received one right between the eyes in the parking lot, then he Might have been a knucklehead ?
But he didn’t....
I make it a point never to argue with performance.
All the Cons will love Phillips’s ‘pleasure bent ears’ in the joint.
I don’t know KY laws.
Will he even get any jail time or just a big fine and community service?.................
Only for those who know.
He died almost 40 years ago.
The APA can fix that with a memo just like they did when they declared homosexuality and all other deviancies to be normal behavior.
I’d bet he’ll get some jail time.
Well it IS ‘normal behavior’...............................for homos....................
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