Shooting at Tacoma, WA Mall: Ongoing

[Manedwolf]

The local Tacoma News Tribune is just reporting that Mr. Maldonado used a Chinese AK-47 and a TEC-9 in his recent assault. The AK-47 was purchased from a private party via a newspaper ad and the TEC-9 was purchased from 'a gang banger type on the street'.

You're kidding! Man...as soon as I heard the media bit about "machine pistol", I figured "Oh, he had an old crap Intratec TEC-9." Because the media in S. Florida always used to call them that. Just crappily made inaccurate spray-and-pray 9mm semiautos with a barrel shroud and large mag.

Shame he didn't use only that one, it might have just come apart on him or blown up in his hand and ended it.

 

[LaVere]

Brandishing your Weapon Mind set.

The fear of one brandishing our weapon. And don't pull your weapon unless you are going to shoot. Has got to change in the laws and in our minds. It has become such a mind set that if we pull our weapon we have to kill someone.

Read the new paper clip below.

M. ALEXANDER OTTO; The News Tribune
Published: November 29th, 2005 02:30 AM


McKown knows guns, and knew what he heard was a high-caliber,
military-style weapon. He even thought two people could be firing.


He walked to the front of the store to see what was going on, and took a
defensive posture, crouched to one side in the store’s entrance. He had
his gun out, but tucked it back into his belt, under his clothes, after
thinking better of it.

Dan and his family said they heard from police that even before
Maldonado met McKown, a person had already pulled a gun on Maldonado
outside of the J.C. Penney store, but didn’t fire out of fear of hitting
passers-by.



Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum said investigators interviewed at
least two people who were in the mall during the shooting who were
carrying handguns. He didn’t know if either of them pointed a gun at
Maldonado, he said.

“I’m not going to dispute it, he was there,” Fulghum said of Roger
McKown’s account of another person with a gun. “I just can’t say for
sure.”

End of article

Promotion of safe and responcible pulling of your weapon should be encouraged by law, police positive support, and proper legal actions. And not if you pull you must kill or it is brandishing.

 

[coylh]

Amazing...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002674324_webshootingcharges09.html

However, Maldonado's defense attorney said his client never meant to hurt anyone.

"He didn't go to the mall to shoot anybody. He didn't go to the mall to rob a bank. He didn't go there to take hostages. He went there ostensibly to make a statement," Sverre Staurset said.

 

[Langenator]

OK, if he never meant to hurt anyone, how about charging him with one count of reckless endangerment for each and every person in the mall when he started shooting? Sentances to be served consecutively.

Sure, he didn't mean to actually hit them, but by firing the gun, he put every single person in that mall in danger of being hit by a bullet or ricochet.

 

[U.S.SFC_RET]

If the victim had indeed drawn his pistol out and fired one round and experienced a jam do you think that if he trained to handle that contingency he'd be walking today? More than likely yes.
A well known gun dealer knew someone "there" (heresay to me) knew about the jam the victim had experienced. To me the guy is a hero nonetheless.