Uber driver with CCW stops potential mass-shooting

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Well, here's one crime that was stopped by someone with a gun.



More stories of CCW's stopping crimes in this article also. Obviously the mainstream media doesn't report it.





http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...civilians-stopped-such-mass-shootings-before/


Uber driver with gun apparently stops would-be mass shooter; have civilians stopped such mass shootings before?

By Eugene Volokh April 20 at 5:02 PM

Authorities say no charges will be filed against an Uber driver [who has a concealed-carry permit and] who shot and wounded a gunman who opened fire on a crowd of people in Logan Square over the weekend….

The driver pulled out a handgun and fired six shots at Custodio, hitting him several times, according to court records. Responding officers found Custodio lying on the ground, bleeding, Quinn said. No other injuries were reported.
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WaPo: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" LOL. He's a Juvenal delinquent. Thanks for posting!
 
Derry 1946 said:
WaPo: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" LOL. He's a Juvenal delinquent. Thanks for posting!
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A Tacit us pun by the WaPo?

This happened in Chicago where CCW was for so long verboten

idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis est

ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant
 
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"Tacitus I consider the first writer in the world without a single exception. His book is a compound of history and morality of which we have no other example."

Thomas Jefferson, to his grand-daughter Anne Cary Bankhead, in a letter dated 1808.
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Tacitus was a really cool dude.

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"To plunder, butcher, steal, these things they misname empire: they make a desolation and they call it peace."
 
"The driver pulled out a handgun and fired six shots at Custodio, hitting him several times, according to court records."
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Hmmmm....fired 6....'several' of the 6 hit the intended target.
Makes one wonder where the 'misses' ended up? As there was apparently "a crowd" in Logan Square.
 
AR-15Nutt: Uber is not a scam and is very useful. It is the free market at it's finest, which is why Uncle Sam is so anxious to regulate the piss out of it. Taxi driver unions are having a hissyfit and raising hell about losing their Government-enabled monopoly on transportation in big cities. Some states and cities have even banned Uber.

Basically you go through a process to become a driver. There's plenty of paperwork and they make sure you're a decent fella. Once you're approved as an Uber driver, you basically can use your vehicle to make money and give people rides like a taxi, whenever you feel like making some extra money. It's really cool. Much more efficient and costs way less than a taxi, which is why they hate it. Then people can leave reviews and rate you as a driver. If you're ever in a big city, give it a try!
 
This was, essentially, a mass shooting stopped by a 'good guy with a gun.'

As such, it is poison to the mainstream media, which is why nobody outside of the 'gun-centric' circles is hearing about it.

Larry
 
I know several people who have used Uber drivers and they said it was fast easy to make the arrangements, that they picked them up on time, and got them to their destination in a timely fashion.
 
Eugene Volokh is a UCLA law professor. He specializes in 1st and 2nd Amendment. His writings were cited for gun rights in Heller 2008 and MacDonald 2010. He is careful, cautious, and lawyerly and writes like he is dealing with a skeptical court and wants to persuade and convince them. Then he throws in humor when it is least expected.

Volokh Conspiracy was an independent blog before it was taken under the Washington Post. The Conspirators are all lawyers or law professors who write on their specialties. Since they are mostly libertarian and lumped as "conservative" by liberal commentators, having the Conspiracy at Washigton Post is consudered an anomaly by some, a refreshing POV by others.

VC is always worth a visit.
 
WHAT ? is this Uber crap ? i hear about 20+ ads on the radio nearly every day and i do not know yet what it is all about, my searches have frustrated me to no end.

is it some sort of scam or useful ?

HELP ??
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It's basically a taxi service where individuals use their own cars vs. cars owned by a taxi company. It skirts the taxi regulations and thus taxi's want them regulated like they are, which could in effect kill Uber and Lyft and other car-ride services.


I believe there is a phone app, so you can just set up a ride for a certain time.


I know it's quite lucrative because you set up your own rates I believe. One Uber driver told me that the rates go up during "peak" times. I think it's called "surge" pricing. He said he made a killing on NYE, and I think he might even have been the driver in the below article.


One woman in Minneapolis, MN got charged $411 for a 10 mile ride I believe.




http://bringmethenews.com/2014/12/0...er-ride-as-surge-pricing-complaints-increase/



Woman hit with $411 bill for 10-mile Uber ride, as ‘surge pricing’ complaints increase

December 4, 2014 By Adam Uren

A Minneapolis woman fell victim to Uber’s notorious “surge” pricing as she was charged more than $400 for a 10.8 mile ride home.

She had failed to hail a cab or find a cheaper Uber, and so selected a nearby Uber SUV that was operating under surge pricing – a practice that allows drivers to charge passengers more at times of high demand.

When she got the bill, the $65.30 charge was multiplied by 6.3, giving her a grand total of just over $411.
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Sorry about getting off track. Back to being on track. Like the above poster, I'm sure if the good Samaritan had hit any innocent bystanders it would have made the national headlines as why CCW is a bad thing and how it only creates vigilantes.
 
usmarine0352_2005 said:
Sorry about getting off track. Back to being on track. Like the above poster, I'm sure if the good Samaritan had hit any innocent bystanders it would have made the national headlines as why CCW is a bad thing and how it only creates vigilantes.
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A few years ago when a disgruntled ex-employee shot his old boss at the Empire State building. NYPD officers in pursuit of him fired 16 bullets and hit 9 innocent bystanders.

Nothing vigilante there.
 
Uber is a great idea. When you call for a ride, you are given the various fares to your destination and you can choose whether to accept that ride or not. I like it-- fast and cheap. And as stated previously you rate the driver and the driver rates you for tips and other things. Fair market at work.

But I must admit I'm a little surprised the Uber driver carried a shotgun. That seems to be a little inconvenient as a personal protection choice in a vehicle. A good choice in this case but still difficult to wield inside a vehicle.

But I'm happy any time a good guy using a gun makes headlines. Helps ward off those antis who are always yelling about how a gun doesn't deter crime. Yeah right.
 
Nobody in NY is "innocent." :D

When I drove a cab (way, way pre-Uber) in Boulder CO I made the interesting discovery that a lot of people who could afford cars, did their erranding by cab. I picked up one lady every saturday morning at 7AM, drove her to the supermarket, waited 10-20 minutes, helped her load the stuff in the cab and drove her home. I got her all the time because that was the end of my shift and her house was fairly near the cab company HQ.

This was not a unique situation. Some folks even had a "tab" running with the cab company and they'd get a bill each month (tips were handled separately.)

The big individual dollar "hit" in taking a cab for almost everything in no way compared to the total cost of owning a car for a lot of people. Nowadays, with Uber, the advantages might be even greater.

And yes, I carried a .380 counter to policy for all that time. I wonder what the Uber-wide policy might be regarding carrying your own CCW in your own car. Did the driver get his "franchise" revoked or anything?

Terry, "44," which was a big propane-powered Checker.
 
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" Obviously the mainstream media doesn't report it."

Ummm, it's tough to get more "main stream" than The Washington Post".
 
A few years ago when a disgruntled ex-employee shot his old boss at the Empire State building. NYPD officers in pursuit of him fired 16 bullets and hit 9 innocent bystanders.

Nothing vigilante there.
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lol. Completely different when it's law enforcement shooting at a suspect and a citizen with a CCW.



Also, I believe the guy had just shot his boss and was raising his gun to cops when they shot multiple times hitting him and innocent bystanders and people were saying things like, "Why didn't they tase him, why didn't they use bean bags, why did they need to use deadly force when other people where in danger?"


Well, in that case, that was the only choice.



" Obviously the mainstream media doesn't report it."

Ummm, it's tough to get more "main stream" than The Washington Post".
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Uhmm....not on Foxnews, CNN, ABC news, or MSNBC on tv. So............not exactly mainstream.
 
OK, i got the Uber driver part, how do they figure a payment method ?

what is the Taxi business charges ?

thanks all for your educational replies.
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I think they do payment just like any other taxi, with credit cards, cash, probably 'ipay' through Apple.



Taxi's have tons of charges, overhead, fees, inspections, licensing, basically commercial vehicle stuff and service charges. You know the government gets theirs.



What's crazy is he had a shotgun in his car. Wow. lol.



Most Uber's I've seen are more the type to ride a single track bicycle everywhere and not into guns.
 
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