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In reply to the discussion: CHL holder unintentionally kills store clerk, trying to stop armed robbers. [View all]ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)5. Interesting question from the article:
Should the customer have pulled his weapon, especially since most robbers are happy just getting the cash?
The locked door by the robbers suggest they were not there "just getting the cash".
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CHL holder unintentionally kills store clerk, trying to stop armed robbers. [View all]
russ1943
Jun 2012
OP
"Something went terribly wrong" - Yeah, some untrained Matt Dillon-wannabe pulled out his popgun,
apocalypsehow
Jun 2012
#7
Please, post an intellectually honest reply/query and it'll get replied to.
apocalypsehow
Jun 2012
#19
Your inability to address the issues raised in the OP is noted, and your refusal to
apocalypsehow
Jun 2012
#65
Since you want to play games, I'll give you two hypotheticals to jump-start your imagination.
PavePusher
Jun 2012
#71
Please, post the details you are privy to that were not in the news report.
apocalypsehow
Jun 2012
#25
It seems simple that you like to make statements that you are then unable to substantiate.
apocalypsehow
Jun 2012
#50
The story does not "continue": the innocent store clerk is dead, at the hands of an
apocalypsehow
Jun 2012
#29
When armed robbers lock the door it often means they plan to murder everybody.
GreenStormCloud
Jun 2012
#38
There's that "it often means" stuff again, along with this phenonmenaly callous observation:
apocalypsehow
Jun 2012
#54
Why are you so confused by plain English? We KNOW "what actually happened in the store":
apocalypsehow
Jun 2012
#64
You know darn well members of gun culture claim they aren't cowboys and don't hit innocent people.
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#40
Sounds to me like CCW holder was trapped in the store with the armed robbers.
Atypical Liberal
Jun 2012
#11
The supposedly law-abiding, responsible, well-trained gun toter was not any of those things.
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#41
You should admit you can't size up a situation and should be barred from carrying guns.
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#55
Do you keep dossiers on everyone? You'd have to go back quite a while here to pick up
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#60
BTW -- no one else was hurt. So our CHLer managed to shoot a clerk, but robbers got away.
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#45
I know, your brother in arms can do no wrong even if he shoots young lady in head saving his ass.
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#48
Yes, I often judge large groups of people by the actions of one individual.
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2012
#83
He tried to save his sorry rear and shot the clerk. I guess he did save his life, at her expense.
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#69
The only possible way I might agree with you, is if it was intentional.
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2012
#82
Yep, let's protect the gun carrying cowboys who shoot innocent people to save their own ass.
Hoyt
Jun 2012
#86
And once you discover that the bad guys have locked the door - then what?
GreenStormCloud
Jun 2012
#35