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Category: Guns

  • Tuesday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us a link to today’s feel good story from Huntsville Alabama, where Hank, Dale and Bill were standing in their yard when three other men, trying to turn their lives around, drove up and flashed guns at the trio in an attempt to rob them;

    Shots rang out among both groups.

    One of the robbers was shot several times and was dead on the scene, according to police. Witnesses said he was in his 20s. One of the robbery victims was shot in the leg. HEMSI took the victim to the hospital. The victim is expected to recover.

    Officers collected three guns at the scene. They are also questioning those involved. No arrests have been made yet.

  • Monday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us a link to today’s feel good story from Beaumont, TX;

    A man and woman at home in the 4300 block of Dallas Avenue heard someone at the front door. The man retrieved his gun before opening the door.

    A man, who looked to be 25 years old, appeared at the front door and asked for some gasoline. The homeowner stepped outside to speak with the man when a second man in a Halloween-type mask attacked him, the release stated.

    The homeowner shot the masked man three times, once in the head. The other man fled on foot.

    The police found another gun and a BB-gun at the scene, so I guess the youngsters were serious about turning their lives around.

  • Sunday Feel Good Story

    Chief Tango sends us today’s feel good story from Jackson, Mississippi when a homeowner heard his dog barking and went outside to find someone burglarizing his car;

    The owner of a home in the 1700 block of Tanglewood Cove told police he heard a noise about 6 a.m. and went outside to discover that a man had broken into his car. The homeowner opened fire, shooting 20-year-old Quardious Thomas, who was still inside the car, police said. Thomas died at a local hospital, police said.

    Police haven’t released the name of the homeowner, but said he will not be charged. Mississippi’s Castle Doctrine allows the use of deadly force to defend against a felony being committed against oneself, another person, or one’s home.

    Apparently, young Quardious who was busy turning his life around, broke into six other cars in the neighborhood that night and there had been more than 30 break-ins this year so far. This might put a cork in that stuff.

    The video news report is at the link.

  • Saturday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us links to today’s feel good story which comes from Houston. The details are a bit muddled, but it looks like it could have been an attempted carjacking foiled by the car’s owner, while three gunmen tried to turn their lives around by taking possession of it. From the Houston Chronicle;

    Police said a 32-year-old man meet two other men in the parking lot to make a deal for used auto parts. When the man got out of his vehicle, the suspects walked over to him and demanded his money and other items at gunpoint.

    Police said the robbery victim, who has a concealed handgun license, pulled out his weapon and opened fire on them. One of the suspects, whose name has not been released, died at the scene. The other suspect was wounded and it is believed he ran away into a nearby field, climbed into a vehicle and sped away.

    KHOU tells the tale of the second injured fellow;

    The injured man drove himself to LBJ Hospital where he is being treated for a gunshot wound to the arm.

    A third man was taken to HPD headquarters for questioning.

    The security guard wasn’t injured. Police say the guard did not fire his weapon so it remains unclear who shot the two men.

    The third man was apprehended by a security guard according to MyFox26;

    When gun shots rang out, the security guard at Fiesta Mart alerted police and charged to the parking lot taking one of the men into custody.

    So all’s well that ends well;

  • Friday’s feel good story

    From the Huffington Post comes our Friday feel good story about Robert Vann Marshall who thought an order of protection is just a piece of paper;

    At 1:27 p.m., he was released from jail. At 1:38 p.m., officers received a call from Marshall’s wife at their McMinn County home, during which she claimed her husband was forcing his way inside the home. Police said he was irate, suicidal and possibly armed.

    “His wife called 911 and was telling our dispatchers that he was trying to break into the residence,” McMinn County Sheriff Joe Guy told WRCB. “She retreated into the back bedroom, and at some point fired a shot and he was killed.”

    As police descended on the home, Marshall’s wife told dispatchers that she had shot him. The Huffington Post is withholding the woman’s name because she is a possible domestic violence victim.

    It took Marshall just 15 minutes after being released from jail to turn his life around.

  • Your Thursday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends links to the story of a Melbourne, Florida homeowner who encountered four men trying to turn their lives around inside his home. Some of them had guns, but so did the father and husband;

    According to Melbourne police, three or four males — in their teens or early 20s — broke into the home and tried to rob the family.

    The homeowner, however, shot at the intruders, striking one of them in the arm, police said.

    The family’s dog was also injured, but no one else was hurt, police said.

    The suspected intruder who was shot was taken to Holmes Regional Medical Center.

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    One of the playful youngsters, the one who was shot, had warrants one him before the break in. I hope the family’s dog recovers, the burglar, not so much.

  • IL has a concealed weapon law; Governor threatens to cut off pay for legislators

    Tuesday, the Illinois Legislature finally passed a concealed carry permit law by over-riding the Governor’s veto.

    House members approved the override without any debate on the floor. The vote in the House was 77-31 in favor of an override, with 10 representatives not voting.

    The Senate vote was 41-17, after some mild debate. A three-fifths majority vote was needed in each chamber to override the veto.

    State lawmakers this spring, working under a federal court deadline, spent months negotiating on a bill that would allow Illinoisans to carry guns in public. Last week, however, Quinn issued an amendatory veto that rewrote multiple parts of the bill, making it more restrictive.

    The sticking point was that the governor wanted to forbid carrying a weapon in any business that serves alcohol, and that businesses that allowed the carrying of guns on the premises needed to hang a sign out stating that. The legislature passed a version that forbade carrying a weapon in an establishment that derived more than half of it’s business from alcohol, and businesses which DIDN’T want guns on their property had to hang a sign.

    So, the governor threatened to cut off legislators’ says a WGN link to us by Ex-PH2;

    A day after Governor Quinn’s limits on concealed carry were shot down, he’s firing back at lawmakers, docking their pay until they pass pension reform.

    Using his line-item veto power, Gov Quinn announced Wednesday that he is suspending pay for himself and for state lawmakers until the state’s crippling pension crisis is resolved.

    State Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka says her office is checking if this is legal, but Quinn says the Illinois Constitution is “crystal clear.”

    So are the governor’s motivations since he has an election coming up next year.

  • “Irresponsible” gun owners mapped – an app for that

    Dominick sends us a link to the Washington Times which reports that some gumball, lecturer Brett Stalbaum, from University of California San Diego developed an application for Android machine thingies that allows you to put “irresponsible gun owners” on their map. Of course, the meaning of irresponsible is pretty ambiguous – and depends on what the operator decides it means;

    As reported, the market guidelines state, “…unlocked, loaded or carelessly stored weapons should generally be treated with concern by friends, neighbors and visitors. The locations of such careless owners should probably be marked so that others can make an informed decision.”

    “The Gun Geo Marker operates very simply, letting parents and community members mark, or geolocate, sites associated with potentially unsafe guns and gun owners. These locations are typically the homes or businesses of suspected unsafe gun owners, but might also be public lands or other locations where guns are not handled safely, or situations where proper rights to own or use any particular type of firearm may not exist.”

    Gun owners are not pleased with the application citing that the need to “create awareness” of suspected “dangerous” gun owners does not trump the privacy of individuals and their sensitive, personal property.

    As we’ve seen with some of the trolls who drop by occasionally, owning a gun at all makes you irresponsible and so likely to land you on the map. I wonder when someone can make an application that I can use to mark all of the do-gooder airheads on a map, preferably with a GPS locator that tells me when they leave their house, so I don’t accidentally bump into one at the drug store and have to listen to him wax endlessly about what he’s doing to save the world.