Posted on 03/15/2017 8:53:24 AM PDT by brucedickinson
A heroic security guard has been caught on camera shooting a bank robber dead after the criminal threatened customers and tellers with a gun.
Serial armed robber Laurence Turner, 34, walked into Alpine Bank in Rockford, Illinois, armed with a gun and wearing a ski mask.
As he pointed his pistol at staff behind the counter, Brian Harrison whipped out his gun and shot the criminal dead - all of which was caught on security footage.
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that’s because if you need two hands to shoot it sam colt would have put two handels on it.
That struck me as odd, too. Not sure why you would shoot him if he was already dead. Perhaps reading the whole story will enlighten me.
Defective product returned to manufacturer.
I'm fairly sure this young feller was just trying to deposit his church's collection plate funds and wanted to cut to the front of the line. We could ask him, I guess.
It depends on zoning and the distance from a dwelling or a public road.
Glock Perfection. Being a relatively late-comer to the firearms world, one might say they "came from behind". I used to live next door to a surgeon. He would ask "Where do you want it, in the belly or the back?"
Perhaps reading the whole story will enlighten me.
Yeah, the Melbourne, Florida video is textbook stuff. More recently, my favorite is the Dixie Gun & Pawn shooting video. In that one, the perp was dead before his knees buckled.
The local court with jurisdiction of the case, had the robber lived, should pay a bounty to the guard in the amount of, say, ten per cent of the estimated costs of trying and incarcerating the robber. This should be standard policy for bonafide security guards and police everywhere.
LOL. Sorry, I missed the sarcasm. The people who write the headlines are not the brightest bulbs in the firmament.
ILASWAHE.
Indeed. Bonus time. Drinks on the house, too.
45's save lives. Should be a t-shirt, or a bumper sticker.
Probably, but that takes the fun out of it. :-D
Unfortunately, it can be a lot easier for me to read the FR posts than it is to go to the source. I'm on a government network and almost every news source is blocked. I'm surprised that I can see FR.
Tank gunners do it all the time, whether it's hit but not yet disabled enemy vehicles or dismounted troops who might be wounded or playing possum. You get 63 rounds of main gun ammo and 12,000 rounds for the co-axial machinegun, you might as well give the taxpayers their money's worth.
Target! Turret hit, load HEAT, hit him again, Target!
Dismounts on the ground; Gunner, coax. Hose 'em. Driver, move out, keep 'em honest.
Whenever in doubt, make the certainty shot. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting again.
If you do, you'll likely be condemned to an eternity of my company.
However, the tune I had in mind for his last perp walk was the old Rick Dees' tune Disco Duck.
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