People Are Getting Wacky

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I stopped in to take a look at some empty shelves today at one of my local toy shops and got to talking to the owner. He was telling me that he had had a regular customer in the store Monday looking at a new $1,200 1911 and was shooting the bull with him. He said he turned around to take care of something and when he turned back around the customer and the 1911 were out the door.

The other guy that works at the shop (very small shop) ran after the guy immediately. Normally this guy (the one with the 1911) moves rather slow but this time he was motivated and was in his car backing away when the guy from the shop tried to stop him. He slowed momentarily, got a real distressed look on his face, then drove off.

The police still haven't been to the guys house as of this afternoon. Maybe they know it's a federal matter and haven't really followed up on it.:confused:

I still can't wrap my head around why someone would toss their life in the toilet over a $1,200 gun. I think he said that prison time for this was something like ten years.

The times, they are a changin'.
 
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Probably a sui with a history of involuntary admittal/committal, thus a disqualified purchaser.
 
I didn't mention that the guy had purchased at least eight other handguns from just this shop in the past. So, he had passed the background check on these other occasions.
 
Recent news has a church pastor and model citizen attempt a bank robbery, taking hostages and involved in a stand-off with Police.

Man has wife and 4 children. Just threw his life down the toilet.

Dunno what's going on, but the bad economy is only going to make things worse.
 
That's terrible! That is one more reason why I carry 24/7. If a model citizen will do something like that(my guess is lost his job, maybe more) then there's no telling what other people will do. Probably something a little more violent!
 
Link please.

Also you think one simple call to Police will capture the thief on that 1911 get-way.

What did that thief think? 8 guns for one free?
 
And the crazy thing is he isn't getting away with it. They know who he is. If this was some guy that had never been in before or something like that then I could see the reward MAY be worth the risk (if you had nothing to lose anyway) but this guy is clearly out of his mind.
 
Fragile little egos and narcisitic gigantism, characteristic of the latter twentieth century and the first decade of this one. Lose your job, it's the end of the world; and so maybe it oughta be the end of everyone else's, too. A long, long sociological fuse for this one. Look for a lot more of this.

Time was, your world was your family, your friends, your church, your civic and social clubs, your hobbies even. Lately, it's how much you're paid, how big your house is, how shiny your car is. And look what that leads to when it all goes kerflush.
 
That sounds a little off to me. I mean a regular customer? It almost sounds as if he has some plans for that firearm as opposed to just trying to get a free weapon. I don't know what though as he already owns others... Dunno, just doesn't add up, I can't believe what some people are doing now-a-days.
 
Amen to the Duke of Doubt. Me, Me Me. It' s all about me. I want it right now. A lot of the younger generation are in the toilet along with the economy.
 
first, what do you mean, "getting whacky"? people have been "whackey" for as long as i can remember. i have no idea what this guy was thinking though. he certainly is going to go to jail for such stupidity. unless he and his lawyer can convince a jury he was temorarily insane. and then, he will lose his firearm rights. and be subjected to all kinds of psyco-stuff. i think DanielW said it best, WOW!
 
What did that thief think? 8 guns for one free?
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I could go for that. They need a little punch card or something like Subway used to have.

Time was, your world was your family, your friends, your church, your civic and social clubs, your hobbies even. Lately, it's how much you're paid, how big your house is, how shiny your car is. And look what that leads to when it all goes kerflush.
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It is a shame that that is too true. I am a firm believer in capitalism, but greed is never good no matter what Michael Douglas says.

That sounds a little off to me. I mean a regular customer? It almost sounds as if he has some plans for that firearm as opposed to just trying to get a free weapon.
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That was also a concern of the shop owner.
 
No, I think we'll see quite a bit more desperation these days. People think I'm weird for using a door bar for my entryways, along with window alarms. But you never know.
 
Phydeaux642: "It is a shame that that is too true. I am a firm believer in capitalism, but greed is never good no matter what Michael Douglas says."

Oh, I'm a capitalist, myself. But I now place a pretty darn high price on my own time and energy, to the point where, unlike a decade ago, I am unwilling to sell it out until the shelves are bare.

I literally watched what was left of a pretty meteoric career go up in flames one September Tuesday, along with the job I was leaving and the job I was taking. My whole firm was an indirect casualty. But none of that mattered. The enormity of people I actually knew, one of whom I cared for very much, getting cooked that day, occasioned a real reappraisal of my values and the relative importance of certain things. I handle myself very differently these days, and while I am one heck of a capitalist, there's only so much of my own time and trouble for sale. My old colleagues think I'm crazy puttering around a backwater state, putting in time on boards and civic groups, joining fraternal organizations, going to church, shooting pool, bowling, teaching people to shoot, so forth. Oh, and when I get around to it, once in awhile, I keep people out of jail to make some scratch. To me, that beats what I was doing a decade ago, hands down.

The America so many think of as lost, is still there. And it ain't a matter of geography. It's a matter of priorities. Another decade or so, I may even write a book about it.
 
This might seem dubious, but maybe the guy wants to kill someone, but doesn't want to contribute to a legally-obtained-guns-used-in-murders statistic. He's obviously a gun enthusiast since he bought so many previously; maybe something happened in his life (wife raped, child kidnapped, etc) that made him decide to go vigilante.

From the sound of the incident (especially the distressed look on his face as he drove off), it really seems like the guy regretted stealing the gun, as if it was something that took all the will he had to disregard his normal moral code. Then again, he might just have undiagnosed multiple personality disorder. Who knows. But I think my first theory is more likely.
 
This might seem dubious, but maybe the guy wants to kill someone, but doesn't want to contribute to a legally-obtained-guns-used-in-murders statistic. He's obviously a gun enthusiast since he bought so many previously; maybe something happened in his life (wife raped, child kidnapped, etc) that made him decide to go vigilante.

From the sound of the incident (especially the distressed look on his face as he drove off), it really seems like the guy regretted stealing the gun, as if it was something that took all the will he had to disregard his normal moral code. Then again, he might just have undiagnosed multiple personality disorder. Who knows. But I think my first theory is more likely.
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I am inclined to think that, had he been serious about killing someone, he would have picked a serious tool such as a Glock rather than an overweight JHP-misfeeding chunk of belt jewelry.

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There may be more to this story than we know, maybe the guy has been diagnosed with a disease, such as cancer,and has no health insurance or money for treatment, and is planning on letting the state pay for his treatment during his incarceration? this actualy happens occasionaly.
 
All of these things are NOT happening because of the economy. I wish people would stop saying things like that. During the Great Depression crime rates were much lower than they are today.

The real cause of crime is not a poverty of resources but a poverty of values.
 
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