Gun-toting citizen halts apparent robbery

south bend tribune ^ | 11/04/02 | LINDA MULLEN

[Gritty]

BTTT

[hoosierboy]

Wasn't it great.

[Don Carlos]

"How do you draw a pistol from your waistband? Very carefully"

'Specially if it happens to be a Glock. You could be singin' soprano, boy!

[tracer]

Badges?? We don' need no steenkin' badges!!!!

[tracer]

Not possible. Glock owners don't have any to shoot off.....8~)

[CholeraJoe]

In a more leftist state, the headline would read:

Vigilante Fires Shot at Unarmed Citizen. Held Without Bail

[humblegunner]

Ping!

[austingirl]

Good for Eric Endres!

[mil-vet]

Sad, but true! This is why I live in Texas where I'm allowed to protect me and mine AND my property!

[Don Carlos]

Oooh! You bad! Does that mean only wimmin own Glocks?

[norraad]

Barney could be very dangerous, he'd be the first one to tell you that, unless he wus havin' "low sugar blood"(the Fife's are famous for that you know).

On the other hand, you can't beat the classic,

"dance for me, boy!"

[LAL7173]

<< Do you know of anything else that can be toted? >>

Just a WAG but, is it possible to "tote" a left-handed Marlboro if you're a graduate of a NEA sponsored education?

Have a gooder....

LAL/DOL

[Steel and Fire and Stone]

Heck, this guy WAS brave. I wouldn't have had the guts to do this.

I'd have no trouble facing down the bad guys, putting my life on the line for the local community (been there, done that), but the prospect of facing California anti-gun law and aggressive, liberal-left prosecutors and judges ... THAT takes courage I just don't have.

It'd be a case of "guilty until proven innocent", and there is no such thing as an "innocent" gun owner in California.

FReegards ... SFS

[Blood of Tyrants]

It wasn't Barney. It was Gomer who made the citizen's arrest.

[ExSoldier]

"At any rate, Pry Bar=Lethal Threat=Shoot to Stop."

Only problem is that there is also an explicit duty to retreat unless the act of retreating will place you in more danger than if you had stood your ground in the first place. He allowed him to advance until there was a threat.

I think he should've followed your advice and just been a good witness as you said, there was no danger to life and limb until he got within striking distance with the club.

NEVER FIRE A WARNING SHOT!!!

[GovernmentShrinker]

We need to get rid of that idiotic "duty to retreat". What the heck was this fine citizen supposed to do if the perp had known the current laws re gun use, and simply kept right on carting the loot away? Shoot him? Yeah right, and spend the next decase in prison and have all his assets awarded to the perp as damages. Citizens need to be empowered to shoot if necessary, in order to keep someone they have witnessed committing a crime from fleeing before police arrive. And will somebody please hurry up and invent a little video recorder gadget to mount on firearms, to keep such a system from generating unproveable he-said-she-said cases?

[Lion Den Dan]

How do you draw a pistol from your waistband? Very carefully!***

Note pistol is in a holster although with a hazzardous retention strap. When drawing from this or any other holster, the idea is to not put your finger on the trigger until your muzzle is on the target and you have decided absolutely to shoot.

[sam_paine]

I would have firmly but politely explained that this was an expensive gun and that I would very slowly lay it down and move away from it where I would happily lay down.

That's funny, that's what I was thinking too. I wouldn't dare drop my pistolas on concrete! I always cringe when they do it in movies. Hell, you might break a Glock thataway!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Not only that, my pistol has no safety, dropping it would most likely cause it to fire inadvertantly, possibly striking someone.

[Lizard_King]

Take a rest fellas...not all of us need bulky chunks of metal to steady our aim :O