On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:43:11 -0800, George Plimpton
wrote:

On 2/6/2012 11:40 AM, Hawke wrote:
On 2/5/2012 9:48 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:37:56 -0600, Jon
wrote:

David R. Birch wrote:




http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/aldi-customer-wont-be-charged-in-shooting-sk42et0-138688529.html


I'm exchanging email with Nazir so I can buy him a box of the ammo he
used.

Hmmm, sounds like he needs better ammo, he shot the guy twice,
once in the FOREHEAD, and he ran off????

Jon

In the LEG AND the Forehead?

Id strongly...strongly..suggest he redo his firearms training.
Seriously.

Gunner


For once I agree with Goober. That was some pretty bad shooting. Seven
shots at the bad guy and not a single center of mass hit. That guy needs
a lot more time at the range. But then that is what you should expect
from most people. What do you think the average CCW holder does to be a
good shooter?

Well, okay. But did his efforts result in stopping the robbery, or
didn't they? Give the guy some credit.

This case really provides some food for thought. Suppose that
Al-Mujaahid, when *he* was the robber and he robbed that store at
gunpoint, and for which he was incarcerated, had run into some other
citizen who was carrying like he was in this case, or perhaps an
off-duty cop? Maybe he'd be dead. Or maybe he would have killed
someone, for which he would still be in prison.

So he's benefitting from a law that might have killed him or sent him
up for life when the tables were reversed, and he was the robber. Now
he's a big advocate for citizens carrying concealed guns. Timing is
everything, eh?

Not to mention that the guy with the shotgun was dumb enough not to
load it before going into the store. The way Al-Mujaahid was shooting,
he'd probably be so ventilated that, if his body was propped up in a
good breeze, you could play "The Star Spangled Banner" on his chest.

These cases are rarely clear-cut. Mostly it's a matter of whose number
just came up.

--
Ed Huntress