SavannahMann
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The Daily Mail is showing this incident as an example of what a citizen with a gun can do to stop crime. There is a few problems, but let’s start with the link.
Customer shoots robber through the drive through window of a fast food outlet before speeding away | Daily Mail Online
The first problem looking at the video is that he fired through the window and while the shooter did hit the robber, he came within a handful of inches of hitting the victim. This is an example of a bad time to shoot. It would have been one thing if the robber was preparing to fire, or brandishing a gun, or even starting to shoot. It is another entirely when you start spraying rounds down range and hit he robber along with the drinks machine, the cash register, and everything else including the windows. In short, the robbery suspect was taking a little over two hundred dollars. The “good guy” wound up doing a hell of a lot more financial damage than that destroying and damaging the equipment.
The bad guy collapsed outside. Ok, so despite the flurry of rounds fired, the only thing that died was the cash register, and the drinks machine.
Finally. The good guy became a bad guy himself when he fled the scene. That makes it assault with a deadly weapon, destruction of private property, and attempted murder times two. This wasn’t a good guy, this was a guy already breaking the law. Running around with a loaded gun in your car is a violation of California Law. Unless he had a permit, which I doubt because the “hero” fled the scene.
Transporting Guns in California
So the armed robbery suspect is looking at a couple years in prison, if convicted. The good guy is looking at a lot more time in prison, when or if he is found and convicted, which in California I can just about guarantee he will be convicted if he is tried.
This was not a heroic act. It was a child with a gun, firing regardless of the danger he was putting others in. At most, he was a wannabe hero.
No, I am not a fan of gun control laws, but I am a big supporter of common sense and restraint when it comes to employing firearms in defensive situations.
Customer shoots robber through the drive through window of a fast food outlet before speeding away | Daily Mail Online
The first problem looking at the video is that he fired through the window and while the shooter did hit the robber, he came within a handful of inches of hitting the victim. This is an example of a bad time to shoot. It would have been one thing if the robber was preparing to fire, or brandishing a gun, or even starting to shoot. It is another entirely when you start spraying rounds down range and hit he robber along with the drinks machine, the cash register, and everything else including the windows. In short, the robbery suspect was taking a little over two hundred dollars. The “good guy” wound up doing a hell of a lot more financial damage than that destroying and damaging the equipment.
The bad guy collapsed outside. Ok, so despite the flurry of rounds fired, the only thing that died was the cash register, and the drinks machine.
Finally. The good guy became a bad guy himself when he fled the scene. That makes it assault with a deadly weapon, destruction of private property, and attempted murder times two. This wasn’t a good guy, this was a guy already breaking the law. Running around with a loaded gun in your car is a violation of California Law. Unless he had a permit, which I doubt because the “hero” fled the scene.
Transporting Guns in California
So the armed robbery suspect is looking at a couple years in prison, if convicted. The good guy is looking at a lot more time in prison, when or if he is found and convicted, which in California I can just about guarantee he will be convicted if he is tried.
This was not a heroic act. It was a child with a gun, firing regardless of the danger he was putting others in. At most, he was a wannabe hero.
No, I am not a fan of gun control laws, but I am a big supporter of common sense and restraint when it comes to employing firearms in defensive situations.
