All super heroes in waiting. How long till one of these heroes kills a few innocent bystanders.

or some other idiot who thinks he is trying to stop a bad guy. Imagine the chain reaction that can develop in a situation such as this.

We need IQ TESTS for gun owners.

Exactly. Literacy tests should not just be for voters.

team this story w/ the one about the ammo stored in the OVEN; girlfriend fires up the oven, girlfriend gets shot .....and the gun rolling around the floor of some guy's truck along w/ his rolling around dog, dog steps on trigger, guy gets shot - Yea, an I.Q. test is a requirement to own a gun.

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"I'm only shooting my gun in a parking lot full of cars and people at a guy who stole some cheap dollar bin crap from Walmart! "

"Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorence on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started shooting my gun that that sort of thing is frowned upon...."

would have been brought up on charges for trying to shoot a SHOPLIFTER in a crowded Mall.

Report is he has been bonded out, but is facing felony charges --- which he richly deserves.

"Mopery with intent to loiter is a hanging offense."

people who carry guns look for excuses to use them. To mark the car? You don't fire a deadly weapon to mark a car. If you think that's OK, you shouldn't have access to deadly weapons.

Flame away.

Who "marks a car", that hasn't watched too much tv?

I don't THINK SO!

"They might not be here exactly when you get back but it's a blue Chevy two-door. And it'd be going south on Hertado Street. No, I can't make out the license number, but...it'd be pulling a small church."

"Any blue Chevy pulling a small church, I figure that'd be the one, yeah."

Die, you typical random bastard!

When I first saw that movie, I thought it was stupid. Now I watch and think that it's stupid, but hilarious.

I like to think I've evolved.

One of my favorite movies of all times.

If I've seen it, I've forgotten it.

They were the wrong size tires.

When I buy a tv I'm not going to just have it in my living room as decoration.

As Jeff says, why didn't he simply write down the license plate number like the rest of us would have done?

Why not? Because he had a gun. So for him it was only natural to "solve" the problem of the alleged thief by shooting at him.

who should not be allowed to own guns.

Hopefully he will be convicted, and won't be legally able to anymore!

I don't look for an excuse to use mine. This guy will have plenty of time to think about that in the joint.

Bake

Wouldn't you use a PAINT BALL GUN?

MOST people who carry firearms are in fact MOSTLY reasonable people and will not use them in a ridiculous manner like this.

What is unreasonable is that so many of the more "reasonable" people will fight tooth and nail to prevent any common sense means to try to keep the dingbats from being able to carry them.

I bet on Tuesday, you would have fought for his right to carry a weapon. On Tuesday, there was no way to know he was a dingbat. There is no dingbat test.

are more apt to be hostel towards other drivers.

Precious makes them feel like badasses.

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Making the world safe for big box stores.

In addition to checking for a criminal background, can we check for some sort of baseline IQ?

It's not the "good guy" with a gun or the "bad guy" with a gun that worries me.

It's the dumb ass with a gun.

the shoplifter ran into the wife knocking her down, then the good shooter went to work. But the interview of the wife was worthy of an Oscar. Beneath the heavy tears, she muttered that he was going to kill her. The good shooter added that the shoplifter tried backing over him, and that is why he shot. By the way, what criminal parks his getaway car so he has to back up.

Serves him right.

when he wouldn't be a criminal if there wasn't a law.

That stealing cheap Chinese junk from Wal-Mart is not a capital crime.

"THE ONLY THING THAT STOPS A BAD GUY WITH A GUN IS A GOOD GUY WITH A GUN"

"oh, wait, what? the shoplifter was unarmed?...Oh it's ok, he was trying to Trayvon the shoplifter"

This idiot needs to suffer more than just an arrest.

you can expect a lot more of this sort of thing and innocent bystanders are going to end up victims as well.

Sometimes, the stupid really does hurt, but it never seems to hurt the stupid ones.

The public was in no danger at any time. Move along, go buy more guns...

I'm about to return to Florida for a 3 week vacation to visit friends and family.
If it wasnt for the friends and family i'd probably just go elsewhere,Myrtle Beach perhaps..

flying roaches

I'd vastly prefer to share the world with shoplifters than with people who think they're Rambo.

And he was "shocked that police arrested him."

Use this!

It'll make your head impossible to clean off.

he might get a clue

event that had exactly *nothing* to do with him.

He was not directly threatened by harm in any way.
He was not in physical danger in any way.
His person or belongings were not involved, until he decided to interject himself into the matter by using deadly force.



He's going to have a swell time explaining to the insurance company why they should pay for all the damage he caused those vehicles, too.

by carpenters on the most efficient way to use it, go to your weekly session hitting nails, polish it daily and even carry it around with you.
Now, can you imagine never getting the opportunity to actually hammer two pieces of wood together.
Is this the frustration of the gun owner? You bet.

I can see it now some "responsible gun owner" feels threatened in some way (that person looked at me funny!) and starts shooting. Second "responsible gun owner" sees the first firing his gun and opens fire on that person and so on and so on and so on....

Actually I am surprised this has not happened yet.

Remember that episode when Homer gets a gun?
I thought things like the sudden crazy mob scenes were exaggerated for comedy purposes.
I always understood the Simpsons to be social commentary so that was the frame of mind I thought in.

This past decade I have come to realize that The Simpsons weren't exaggerating AT ALL.
Simpsons hit the ACTUALITY of American behavior & disguised it as comedic social satire.
Maybe we're just living in a cartoon world now but isn't this the kind of foolishness you would expect from a gag scene in The Simpsons?
Something that Homer or some other thoughtless character would do?

Art imitates life!
John Lucas

A "responsible gun owner" just "standing his ground!" Fox news is gettng ready.

"The guy put me in danger and other people," said Martinez as police hauled him off to jail Wednesday evening. "He tried to run me over."

But police said Martinez only was bumped by the shoplifter's getaway car because he was chasing after the car and even tried to open the door to the moving vehicle before he opened fire."

I guess he want to make sure the gun could mark it.


http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Orange-City-Walmart-customer-shoots-suspected-shoplifter/-/1637132/19107274/-/rotvq8/-/index.html

After reviewing store security video, police said Martinez's story doesn't add up. They believe he was never in danger because the shoplifter was driving away from him and everyone else

could have had people in them. The idiot doesn't understand why he endangered his life and others? And he had a gun? Yikes! Glad they arrested him. What a fool.

I could be on board with that.

They're even more radical than Saudi Arabians who cut off the hands of thieves.

The standard for lethal force was not *quite* met here. And the ocean is moist.

"Imminent danger of death or serious injury to yourself or another person, or to prevent a felon from fleeing" does not quite translate to "shoot at a fleeing shoplifter".




...because he thought no one other than the shoplifter was in danger. Dumb statement; he did not have the right to put anybody, including the shoplifter, IN danger in the first place! (See above).

to people's parked cars???????

So ........ it's not just a simple "property crime"!

Herrrp Derrp!