[KCWebPlaza]

Store Owner Protects Himself

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=17f_1239717910

Summary:
Shop owner gets gun due to violence in area.
Less than 3 weeks later, uses it vs. a robber.
Makes decision to start training.
7 months later, faces 4 armed robbers; is shot 4 times; survives.
More gun purchases. More training.
2 years later, another armed robber. Another dead bad guy.
Later, 2 gang members attempt to kill him. 2 more dead bad guys.
Etc...

I like some of the quotes he has during the interview (to paraphrase):
- What if I didn't have my gun right there within reach?
- I decided not to be a victim of violent crime.
- I'm faced with an armed intruder, and I have to make a mental decision to be a victim of his mercy or exercise my right of self defense.
- In fighting back, part of the that is the willingness to fight and be killed.
- It went through here and out here (neck) didn't get my spinal cord or jugular, so a band-aid sufficed and I was back to work the next day.
- A man must live by his principles - who he his, not what he is.

[Hungry Seagull]

Whew.

Even more of a manly thing to stick to his livelhood in spite of all of this.

I dont think I would be that ... courageous.

I tell you this, if that was me Im getting the hell out of that line of work and out of that city for some quiet living before someone does put one between the eyes correctly.

[Nowhere Man]

WOW!!!

[CWL]

Nice mustache!

[rondog]

Helluva man, but good thing he closed up shop and went appt. only. He was rapidly becoming a "test of manhood" or even an initiation rite for the maggots.

[chris in va]

I feel really bad for him. Firearm defense does have a way of sobering you up, yanking that 'carefree' lifestyle away to a certain extent. I can only hope he has moved to a less risky area of the country.

[Dravur]

I like this guy. Perps 0, Good guy 6

He's off to a heck of a start.

[indoorsoccerfrea]

^^ what he said...just hope he keeps that good start. it sucks that he had to take that many lives, but you think people would get the memo that he isn't gonna lie down and take it...

[Nugilum]

This is quite old.

Regardless, he made several good points during the last one hundred seconds of the video

[Nomad_NH]

dude is badass! I feel bad for him for having to go through that but you gotta respect him and how he handled himself.

[hardluk1]

Thats a brave and confident man. Good for him.

[conarth]

That is some life story. Glad he survived all of that.

[one45auto]

I was appalled at the mentality of the interviewer who apparently believes that you should trust a criminal not to kill you once he's gotten what he came for - after he's already threatened your life. Unbelievable.

[adrenalyn]

I really admire his composure with the 911 dispatcher as he dosing out lead poisoning. He is well spoken and "matter of fact". I nominate him to take Charlton Heston's post at his earliest convenience.

[BamaBob]

I want break my watch just to give this guy some business.

[JMACDONALD]

I think this is the guy Massod Ayoob has done an article on before. Guns stashed everywhere!

[Deanimator]

Helluva man, but good thing he closed up shop and went appt. only. He was rapidly becoming a "test of manhood" or even an initiation rite for the maggots.
To paraphrase Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josie Wales, "Dyin' ain't much of a test of manhood, boy."

Stupid people come to stupid ends, just not often enough. It's a start though.

[Deanimator]

I was appalled at the mentality of the interviewer who apparently believes that you should trust a criminal not to kill you once he's gotten what he came for - after he's already threatened your life. Unbelievable.
As I've said to more than one anti-self-defense ninny, "If you can't trust in the basic decency and good judgement of an armed robber, what CAN you trust in?"