The irony: store has a no gun sign, employee uses gun on robbers

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Interesting situation. Usually people who use guns for protection don't mind others using them, however, I can see in this situation, where they are in a bad neighborhood and have been robbed before. However, I can see how people you might want armed customers also. But, you might not trust an armed customer being a good shot in a bad situation (apparently the store owner is and has proven it) and like Clint Eastwood says, "I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."


According to this story, the owner has shot a previous robber in a gunfight and he won, robber died. The story says employee shot this time, but a person on scene made it sound like it was the owner who shot suspects, his second fatal shooting incident. Tragic, but better the bad guys than the good guys being killed.


Also sounds like neighbors are supporting the employee/owner of the shop and saying the teens were in the wrong. Nice to hear for once.




Where was Obama's executive action on guns from stopping these two teen robbers?





http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-two-robbers-shot-to-death-20160109-story.html




2 would-be robbers, 15 and 17, shot to death at liquor store: police

Jeremy Gorner, Gregory Pratt, Megan Crepeau and Rosemary Regina

Chicago Tribune January 10, 2016

Two would-be robbers who were fatally shot at a liquor store in the Gresham neighborhood Saturday night have been identified as a 15-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy, authorities said.

Keshawn Marzette, 15, of the 8300 block of South Throop Street, and William Larson, 17, of the same address, were pronounced dead on the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. "Greed and being thirsty, that's what gets you killed," Jones said. "You just can't go taking people's stuff." The store was the site of a previous robbery in which a suspect was shot to death in a struggle for a gun and a clerk wounded by a second robber on Aug. 11, 2011.

A group of bystanders stood talking loudly outside the store, which had a sign banning guns from the premises.

"They don't play, and I don't blame them," a woman said of the storekeepers. "This (has) happened to them before."
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Don't know about that jurisdiction (just thinking about Chicago area gun a'laws" makes my stomach turn) but in many jurisdictions all liquor stores are mandated as off limits to firearms re. customers/public and are so posted. That might explain the signage.
 
Every occupation has hazards. Robery is hazardious undertaking as a few people have found out. Don't try to take peoples stuff and most likely you will not get killed.
 
Aim1 said:
Interesting situation. Usually people who use guns for protection don't mind others using them, however, I can see in this situation, where they are in a bad neighborhood and have been robbed before. However, I can see how people you might want armed customers also. But, you might not trust an armed customer being a good shot in a bad situation (apparently the store owner is and has proven it) and like Clint Eastwood says, "I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."


According to this story, the owner has shot a previous robber in a gunfight and he won, robber died. The story says employee shot this time, but a person on scene made it sound like it was the owner who shot suspects, his second fatal shooting incident. Tragic, but better the bad guys than the good guys being killed.


Also sounds like neighbors are supporting the employee/owner of the shop and saying the teens were in the wrong. Nice to hear for once.




Where was Obama's executive action on guns from stopping these two teen robbers?





http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-two-robbers-shot-to-death-20160109-story.html
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Brandon acknowledged her brother had been in trouble before but did not specify what that entailed. She said he and Marzette were "always together," and that Larson recently had received his GED and enrolled in Triton College in suburban River Grove.

"He showed me his class schedule, filled out his FASFA and everything," Brandon said. "He didn't even get a chance to start. I'm just lost. I'm just numb that I won't see my brother again."
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"He was such a good boy, just getting his life turned around..."
I think I have heard this story before... Kinda proves that criminals really are not all that smart, are they?
However, it turned out better for the innocent people this time.
 
Two more children dead at the hands of a gun owner.

Or so the "statistics" used by many will say.
 
It is a darn shame kids that age loosing their lives just for some money or booze. Store owner just protecting his interest, that simple.
 
Sauer Grapes said:
It is a darn shame kids that age loosing their lives just for some money or booze. Store owner just protecting his interest, that simple.
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As well as protecting his life and the lives of any employees or customers in the store at the time.
 
"He was such a good boy, just getting his life turned around..."
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Reminds me of my brother. When he was a sergeant he was detailed to escort a man who had been dishonorably discharged off base. The man's mother was waiting for him, and she lit into my brother, claiming the Marine Corps "ruined" her poor boy.

My brother said, "Madam, you sent a maggot to the Marine Corps, and the Marines are sending your maggot back."
 
It's a shame those kids had to die, but life is full of severe natural consequences. If you are a criminal and pick the wrong target, it might end badly for you.

As a business owner, if someone accosted me or my employees, I wouldn't be worried I was turning them into a statistic. I'd be worried about making it home in one piece to my family. If that means ventilating some violent street toughs, so be it.
 
Vern Humphrey said:
Reminds me of my brother. When he was a sergeant he was detailed to escort a man who had been dishonorably discharged off base. The man's mother was waiting for him, and she lit into my brother, claiming the Marine Corps "ruined" her poor boy.

My brother said, "Madam, you sent a maggot to the Marine Corps, and the Marines are sending your maggot back."
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*slow clap*
 
There's not much to do on the Democrat plantation that LBJ set up. They're going to pass the time somehow but it's sad when it turns out this way for young ones with few options given the sins of the father, so to speak. It's gonna get worse though.
 
It's a shame those kids had to die, but life is full of severe natural consequences. If you are a criminal and pick the wrong target, it might end badly for you.

As a business owner, if someone accosted me or my employees, I wouldn't be worried I was turning them into a statistic. I'd be worried about making it home in one piece to my family. If that means ventilating some violent street toughs, so be it.
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Around 1980-81 I was Deputy Operations Officer to the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea. For some reason, the Division sniper platoon fell into my area of responsibility.

A sergeant from the sniper platoon was mugged in Ton Do Chan (the town right outside the gate) by another GI. There was a struggle, and the sergeant was slashed across the back of the hand, severing the leaders. The mugger fell or was knocked down, hit his neck on the curb and broke it, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. The sergeant had several surgical procedures over several months.

For some reason I was invited to the senior NCOs hootch one night, and talk turned to the mugging. The G4 Sergeant Major said, "I know the guy did wrong, but think about his being paralyzed like that!"

The sniper sergeant looked at his bandaged hand and said, "I think about it all the time, and I think about what it means. It means when I kicked him in the balls, he didn't feel a thing."
 
The only possible irony would be if the actual no gun sign had been used to stop the attacker (like, beating him with it). Illegal carry in a GFZ is simply a fact of life, which is why the laws carry penalties.
 
I'm still waiting for the tears-on-demand about the senseless loss of lives in his own back yard, due to gun violence. I mean, these young men never had a chance at life because some horrid gun took away their precious life. What a waste..... we should ban all guns so this won't happen again. It's common sense, you know. 90% of Americans support his view. It's true because he says so. Our king would not lie to his subjects.
 
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