Posted on 12/09/2014 6:15:43 AM PST by george76
Sixty-eight-year-old Joseph Sapienza suspects the men who attempted to break into his Gastonia home Thursday night thought he would be an easy target because he’s disabled and uses a walker.
But after scaring away the would-be thieves, Sapienza taped a note to his door, in which he attempted to make it clear that his trigger finger works just fine.
“(If) you try to break in my house again, I will be waiting on you,” reads the note, which was still there Friday afternoon. “Enter at your own risk.”
Sapienza, a Marine Corps veteran who served four years in Vietnam, was watching television in his bed at 7:42 p.m. at his home on Davis Avenue. He heard someone prying off the lock and pulling the nails to the latch out of his front door.
He grabbed his .45-caliber handgun, put it in a holster on his walker and began shuffling toward the sound. He flipped a hallway light on, yelled out to announce he was armed, and yanked open the door to see two men wearing ski masks.
They jumped off his porch and practically tripped over one another trying to flee, Sapienza said.
“It was like a keystone cops scene,” he said. “When they saw the .45, one ran one way up the street, and the other went the other way.”
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The combat veteran hopes the suspects don’t come back, for their sake.
“I’m pretty proficient with it,” he said of his .45. “I don’t want to have to shoot anybody else.”
(Excerpt) Read more at gastongazette.com ...
Don’t come back until after the UN small arms treaty is deemed to be enacted by our Emperor and all guns are confiscated by UN troops.
See you in March of next year.
“I don’t want to have to shoot anybody else.”
anybody else
And all that implies... ;)
A civilian allowing felons to flee is just as bad as if a police officer allowed a captured violent criminal to flee.
The impulse is for the situation of the moment. But the thought must be for the future. If the felons successfully flee, their next victim may not be so lucky. In fact, the felons may decide to first incapacitate or kill their next victim, so that the criminals can then do what they want without fear.
So, by not doing something he finds distasteful, he may be condemning one or more people to brutal violation, or even death. He cornered the rabid dogs, then let them go, because he cannot bear to harm another dog.
The problem is not the dogs, but the disease. And the problem is not the individual committing the crime, it is the crime. While you may feel sympathy for the dog or the man, you have failed society by not fighting the disease or the crime.
I know exactly where this street is... full of Obama voters.
Those pretty blue helmets make excellent targets. Hold the sights just below the edge and squeeze.
um no, his moral and legal right to use deadly force disappeared when they ran away.
The last I heard summary executions hadn’t been legalized unless you’re part of a SWAT team.
Yes it is. When the robbers chose to flee they ceased to be an immediate threat. If he shot them in the back he would likely be put in prison.
“put it in a holster on his walker”
Wouldn’t you just LOVE to see a picture of that holster walker!
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