He was wounded in the exchange but that’s better than being dead.
But wait you can’t have guns in Chicago.
Hopefully the Supreme Court will sort this out soon but you can see why gun laws adversely affect the law abiding.
This is the third self defense shooting to occur in Chicago during the last couple of weeks.
What the title of the story doesn’t mention is that the shop owner is disabled. Doubt they would have stood much of a chance without being armed.
Tell me again why soldiers shouldn’t be able to carry firearms for personal protection here in the states? I mean we feel comfortable with them carry all sorts of modern weaponry on the battlefield just not at home? What sense does that make?
DO YOU feel safer now? Twice in just the past few days, seemingly bad guys were shot while allegedly attempting to rob Toledo stores. Although we’re glad the robberies were thwarted and thankful no innocents were injured, we’re not sure that store owners and employees defending themselves with deadly force is an absolute good.
Read more at ToledoBlade.com.
Sunday morning a little after 10am, a man entered Bengals Food Mart on Airport Road in Toledo wearing a woman’s wig and threatening clerks with a handgun. According to witnesses, the robber fired at the clerks before one of them returned fire killing the suspect.
Read more at Examiner.com.
An attempted robbery at a bank ATM was thwarted early Wednesday morning when the would-be victim produced a loaded handgun.
It happened at Fifth Third bank near the corner of Karl and Morse roads on the city’s [Columbus, OH] northeast side.
Read the rest of this story at 10TV.com.
Chaos erupted at a Family Dollar store when a man with a knife chased customers and was shot dead.
Witnesses at the store near Delano and North Watkins say the attacker picked the wrong victim.
“He got what he deserved,” says one woman. “It’s as simple as that.”
Read the rest at WREG.com
In his front yard on a tough street in a tough part of town, James Sanchez Castillo last year shot and killed a man who jumped out of a car and into his face.
On Friday, Castillo walked out of the courtroom with a probation term and four months already served in county jail, the result of a plea bargain in a case that, according to the judge, contained a major slice of self-defense.
“In America, you still have a right to defend yourself on your own property,” Sacramento Superior Court Judge Maryanne G. Gilliard said from the bench.
Read the rest at the Sacramento Bee.
A man who police said tried to attack an older relative this morning with a computer monitor was shot by the older man in northeast Oklahoma City, police said.
Oscar Jerome Blakely, 30, of 828 NE 69, was taken to OU Medical Center after the 5 a.m. shooting, police Master Sgt. Gary Knight said.
The older man, whose name was not released, was not hurt because Blakely “never made it,” to him with the computer monitor, Knight said.
Read the rest at NewsOK.com