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South Carolina airman shoots 'gate runner' attempting to illegally enter Shaw Air Force Base property
Fox ^ | 23 Dec 2022 | Adam Sabes

Posted on 12/24/2022 1:26:15 AM PST by blueplum

A Shaw Air Force Base airman shot an individual who attempted to illegally get into the property in South Carolina on Friday.

According to a press release, the individual who attempted to enter the base is being described as a "gate runner," WCBD reported.

The individual was taken to a local hospital....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: militarypolice; shawafb; shooter; usaf
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1 posted on 12/24/2022 1:26:15 AM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Maybe before 9-11, it would have been a simple car chase via the SPs. Today, it’s pretty serious stuff.


2 posted on 12/24/2022 1:49:05 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: blueplum

Shot happens.


3 posted on 12/24/2022 1:50:31 AM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: blueplum

Kudos to the Airman… he did his job well.


4 posted on 12/24/2022 1:54:26 AM PST by ScottinVA
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To: blueplum

Good.


5 posted on 12/24/2022 2:01:35 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: blueplum

He should have been taken to the local morgue.


6 posted on 12/24/2022 2:05:07 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: pepsionice

Great summary.

Anyone who has seen military base entrance security pre- and post-9/11 knows that the world is a whole new place. And I’m sort of surprised they didn’t have the fast pop up bollards to stop the attempt. But I’m totally OK with them shooting to stop things.


7 posted on 12/24/2022 2:30:06 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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This situation sounds like suicide by cop.


8 posted on 12/24/2022 2:35:07 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: blueplum

the individual who attempted to enter the base is being described as a “gate runner,”

Gate Runner? Gate Runner isn’t a country I ever heard of. Do they speak English in Gate Runner?


9 posted on 12/24/2022 3:18:57 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: joma89

Quite possible.


10 posted on 12/24/2022 3:25:11 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: blueplum

Bases now have pop up car stoppers at the gates. Somebody tried to drive into our nearby AF base; the stoppers worked.


11 posted on 12/24/2022 4:01:58 AM PST by lurk (u)
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To: blueplum

I still remember 1972, my unit had just moved into new buildings and the Arms Room Security had not been certified yet.

I was locked in the Arms Room with a loaded M 1911. I had to sign a statement, full page single spaced, that basically said if I shot anyone I would go to prison but if someone broke in and I didn’t shoot them I’d go to prison.

Miss me some Catch 22...


12 posted on 12/24/2022 4:19:55 AM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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Did Army basic at Ft. Lost in the woods Misery spring of ‘77.

Had guard duty at some nondescript warehouse, 3 rounds, general orders on a card hung around my neck.

I challenged a guy attempting to come through the gate without showing me any ID to the point I locked, loaded, drew down on him until he - and a couple of his coworkers - turned around and left cursing, pitching a fit.

Drill sergeant showed up right then - LATE - and read me the riot act. I held up my copy of my orders and said “I only did what you told me to do, drill sergeant.”

Not another word was said about it.

I was seconds away from pulling the trigger on the fat GS employee who should have just shown me his ID (it was written on the damned building door “Must present government ID for entry”).

I’d already shot a guy the year before back home (forced home invasion, known rapist, scared the heck outta my mom), another one wouldn’t have made me sad, just made for mountains of paperwork.

That Airman, and thousands like him, should be lined up on our southern borders RFN (that’s RFQ for my southern friends) with the same orders.


13 posted on 12/24/2022 5:23:40 AM PST by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: pepsionice
Maybe before 9-11, it would have been a simple car chase via the SPs. Today, it’s pretty serious stuff.

Depends. If it involved nuclear weapons, or Class A defense assets, he probably would have been shot.

14 posted on 12/24/2022 5:43:27 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: blueplum

The big sign reads ...lethal force... something something. Most people get the idea.


15 posted on 12/24/2022 5:46:31 AM PST by GingisK
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To: markomalley; DYngbld; TADSLOS; xsrdx; big'ol_freeper; Mark17; mikefive; JDoutrider; ...

Ping.


16 posted on 12/24/2022 5:53:50 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Larry Lucido

Say gate runner again. I dare you.


17 posted on 12/24/2022 5:54:41 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
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To: blueplum

So we can shoot someone illegally attempting to enter out house?

Sounds fair to me


18 posted on 12/24/2022 6:33:32 AM PST by wny
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To: lurk

My boss, driving a Pete, pulling a side dump, ignored the gate guards at Minot AFB.
Those posts come up out of the road really fast


19 posted on 12/24/2022 6:35:35 AM PST by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: ClearCase_guy

Sounds like he wanted to be remembered as a “Blade Runner” in the old movie.


20 posted on 12/24/2022 6:48:11 AM PST by mosaicwolf (nd M19)
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