[STW]

People You Should Avoid Shooting At...

Jun 30, 9:28 am ET

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - A Mexican boxing champion beat up and hospitalized a gunman who shot at him outside a gym in a crime-plagued city on the U.S. border.
Prosecutors in Ciudad Juarez said a man armed with two pistols shot at light-heavyweight champion Arturo "The Graduate" Rivera as he left the gym early Monday.

Rivera, a stocky brawler with 16 knockouts from a 26-fight career and ranked 98th in the world, fought back with his fists and the attacker was treated in hospital for head injuries.

"The Graduate was unharmed in the attack, which we are treating as attempted murder, although we can find no motive," Mauro Conde, a spokesman for local prosecutor said.

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"...treating as attempted murder..." as opposed to what?

[armoredman]

"Suicide by boxer"?:p

[DMK]

"If you try to use your gun to defend yourself, they'll just take it away and use it against you"

OK, maybe with this one guy, that may be true.

[sturmruger]

I wish they were a little more clear on this one. I would hope they are charging the guy that was shooting, but these days they could be charging the boxer for defending himself.

[Zach S]

Oh great. The brady bunch is gonna get ahold of this and end the story with "More proof that you dont need a handgun for self-defense."

[Thumper]

"People you should avoid shooting poorly at"

[Rickstir]

Holly cripes! The 98th ranked boxer? What on earth would, say the 75th ranked boxer done to old deadeye?

[Don Gwinn]

That's 98th worldwide. Against an untrained opponent, there's effectively no difference between him and Number One. There are only 97 people in his weight class who've competed enough and done well enough to be considered superior to him in the rankings.

It's a weird story. I'd like to know what the ranges were like, who closed, when, and so on. Did the guy empty both pistols without hitting once? Was he firing at or near contact range (since a boxer was able to fight him with his hands) or did he fire from longer range and get chased down and pulped after his guns ran dry?

Am I crazy to think the motive will turn out to have something to do with illegal gambling?

[Travis McGee]

Mexico, where only criminals own guns.

[Ky Larry]

Several years ago, a man walked out of a local Denny's and found a BG trying to hot wire his car. The thief pulled a .25 POS and fired at the car owner. The car owner returned fire and killed the thief. Turns out the car owner was a state trooper visiting here.(I beleive he was from Delaware).
This was definately the wrong person to shoot at.:D

[4v50 Gary]

The "gun fool" didn't beat Gung-fu.

[444]

I once ran a call where a limo driver left the airport with a couple people in the limo. Another driver wigged out with road rage and got in front of the limo and started jamming on his brakes. The limo driver decided he had better pull over and avoid a confrontation. The road rage guy immediately locked up his brakes and got out and approached the limo. The limo driver got out and faced a man that was twice his size. However, road rage guy didn't realize that limo driver was a fly weight boxer. The occupants of the limo stated that before road rage guy even raised his hands he was hit in the face a half dozen times and then hit the ground.
I openly laughed at the guy when I heard the story.

[blackrazor]

I thought there were safe handgun laws in Mexico?!?! How could this happen?!