Posted on 10/31/2012 1:45:55 PM PDT by marktwain
TROY, Mo. • David W. Thompson, the president of a Troy bank, was in his office Tuesday afternoon talking with a salesman about advertising when his receptionist buzzed him with an emergency.
"David, we've got a problem," she told him.
Thompson said he looked out his office window into the bank lobby of Peoples Bank & Trust. He saw that his tellers looked fearful. And he saw a man wearing a heavy jacket and a ghoulish Halloween mask calmly walk away from the tellers, carrying one of the bank's money bags.
Thompson, 58, followed the man outside, onto the parking lot, and locked the bank door behind him.
Thompson let the robber get to his truck — then Thompson pulled his personal handgun, a Colt .380, and pointed it at the robber's face before he could drive away, he told the Post-Dispatch.
"Sir, get out of the truck," Thompson remembers demanding. "You're not going anywhere."
And when the man put his hand in his jacket pocket, as if he had a weapon, Thompson scolded him again.
"You don't want to go there," Thompson implored. "This will end badly."
By that time, another bank official who also carries a concealed weapon had joined Thompson on the lot.
"Now you have two guns on you," Thompson said. "Don't try anything."
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How much do you want to be the bank owner gets a harsher prison sentence than the robber?
There was a case here in North Texas where a banker went out to his car were he had a shotgun with bird shot for dove season and shot the robbers mid body as they exited the back door. We got the impression no words were exchanged he just nailed them as they walked out.
What a great story!
Glad the guy wasn’t armed and sober.
A small business owner protecting his livelihood and that of his employees. Well done sir.
This is the same way Looters should be handled....CCW and shoot-on-site/Castle Doctrine.
great story!
Powder..patch..ball FIRE!
My old stomping grounds. Country boys take care of business.
Way To Go!
GUNS for Citizens!
Yes, indeedy - two responsible businessmen takin’ care of bidness. I love it: “you don’t want to go there. This will end badly”! Hah!
But but liberals think “regular people” are just too dumb to be able to load, aim and pull a trigger and make a public arrest mainly because they are just that - dumb and scared of guns. Hell I was shooting .22’s at 10 yrs old and double barrelled .12 gauge shotguns at 13. Even a 7 year old knows not to point a gun at someone and that all you have to do to fire the weapon is pull the trigger.
But but liberals think “regular people” are just too dumb to be able to load, aim and pull a trigger and make a public arrest mainly because they are just that - dumb and scared of guns. Hell I was shooting .22’s at 10 yrs old and double barrelled .12 gauge shotguns at 13. Even a 7 year old knows not to point a gun at someone and that all you have to do to fire the weapon is pull the trigger.
Another 2nd Amendment success story.
send these two fellows to Pennsylvania Avenue....another heist is in progress....
I bet they would do a much better job than the current occupants.
As Clint would say there a time for talking and a time for shooting, When its time to shoot shoot.
Not in Lincoln County, MO.
That was Tuco.
“How much do you want to be the bank owner gets a harsher prison sentence than the robber?”
That kind of cr#% only happen when We the People are negligent of our Constitutional obligations to ourselves,, one another and the country
FIRE BOTH OF THEM for endangering the poor alleged suspect. Hell, he might have even learned something. Sheesh!
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