Kenner business owner shoots, kills alleged robber late Friday

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

A Kenner business owner shot and killed a would-be robber and wounded one of the alleged thief's two accomplices during a tussle around 9 p.m. Friday, outside his check-cashing store in the 3200 block of Williams Boulevard.

The second alleged assailant was taken to University Hospital and is expected to a be booked with armed robbery, according to the Kenner Police Department.

The third alleged robber remains on the loose. Authorities did not immediately have a detailed description of the man but said the two suspects who were shot had identification cards from Honduras.

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One of the men produced a revolver, struck the owner in the head with it, then grabbed the man's backpack and pushed him into a nearby alley, according to a news release issued Saturday morning by Detective Shaun Watson.

The owner dropped his backpack, retrieved from it his own weapon and shot the would-be robber, who died on the scene, Watson said.


http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/01/kenner_business_owner_shoots_k.html

[rrneck]

1. Wow.

Grace under pressure.

[sharesunited]

2. "One of the men produced a revolver"

This robbery was emboldened by a gun.

Zero points awarded.

[SteveM]

3. Ah, the majic gun theory. nt

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

6. It's so sad you make a game out of a man's death.

[sharesunited]

7. That goose egg was for you, partner.

In your continuing quest to justify guns in society.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

8. Guns don't need justification they are a Constitutionally protected right.

[rd_kent]

24. Sharesunited just cannot seem to grasp that fact at all. Its a waste of time.

[proteus_lives]

9. They don't need to be justified.

Their place has been a proven fact for hundreds of years.

[proteus_lives]

10. Zero Logic.

Business as usual for SU.

[rrneck]

11. How did the gun embolden the robbery? nt

[sharesunited]

13. By enabling the robber to form the belief that his victim would be compliant or could be overcome.

[rrneck]

14. How do you distinguish

the formation of that belief from the belief that a potential victim armed with the same weapon would have that an assailant "would be compliant or could be overcome"?

[sharesunited]

15. By the most important distinction of all.

Formation of the robber's belief begins the trouble.

[rrneck]

16. That's a non sequitur.

How do you distinguish one belief from the other? The assailant has a belief, and the victim has a belief. What's the difference?

[sharesunited]

17. Your insistence on their equivalency cannot be genuine. You're faking bewilderment.

And your abject refusal to admit that the difference not only matters but is self-evident is typical of the denial which exists throughout America's gun worshiping culture.

[rrneck]

18. Of course there's a difference. Can you describe it? nt

[PavePusher]

32. So what, oh great swami, emboldens unarmed crime? n/t

[GreenStormCloud]

19. Actually, gun robberies result in the fewest injuries to the victims.

Knife robbers often cut their victims at least once to show they mean business and to establish situation dominance. Muggers, by definition always strike and usually injure their victims. Becuase a gun is so powerful, the gun robber feels assured of dominance from the start.

Sometimes any of those type of criminals may kill a compliant victim anyway.

If the victim has a gun to fight back with they signifigantly reduce their chance of injury. Those who fight back with guns suffer injury at a rate lower than any other category, especially compliant-victim. That categorey gets hurts the most often, usually by the mugger or the knife guy.

[sharesunited]

20. In other words, more guns = safer holdups? What an angle!

Maybe the NRA is hiring in their public relations department.

[GreenStormCloud]

21. It is a fact. That you don't like the fact is beside the point.

Do you dispute the fact that a mugger always hits their victim?

[sharesunited]

22. I like that you are arguing the "fact" as a justification for guns in society.

It sounds so absurdly rosy! A real glass-half-full outlook!

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

26. No justification is needed.

[GreenStormCloud]

33. Just correcting your profound ignorance. N/T

[rrneck]

35. What fact based solutions do you bring to the discussion? nt

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

25. Law abiding citizens with more guns, criminals with fewer guns=safer country.

[sharesunited]

27. The more there are, the easier they are to get. Proliferation is the problem.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

28. Surely there is a way to reduce "proliferation" without hurting the law abiding.

[rrneck]

34. There is a question pending.

From posts #14, 16, and #18.

Run to the roundhouse Nell! He can't corner you there!

[Tejas]

31. Serious question, a yes or no will do.

From the angles you try to explain away the fault of criminals, I have to ask....do you have a relative in prison that you feel was wrongly convicted?

Just trying to fathom your view of things, thanks.

[rd_kent]

23. The stupid...

It BURNS!!!

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

29. Surely, you have statistics to prove that the proliferation of guns has emboldened (increased)

the occurrence of violent crimes?

Don't they keep stats on the number of guns out there and the incidence of violent crime?
You are always raising this point. What substance can you provide to establish its veracity?

[safeinOhio]

4. check-cashing store?

Robbers robbing robbers.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

5. Ain't that the truth.

[rrneck]

12. Yep. nt

[Tejas]

30. Merchants - taking good-paying jobs away from ICE employees.

:rofl: