Texas Gun Owner Stops Robbery
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 2 months ago
Via Daily Caller, KHOU:
HOUSTON- A good Samaritan with a gun stopped three suspects whom held Auto Zone employees at gunpoint during an attempted robbery on Friday night.
According to authorities, three males entered the Auto Zone on Jones Road around 9:00 p.m. demanding cash from the register. A customer who happened to be pulling up saw the men holding the employees at gunpoint.
The customer, a “LTC” permit carrier, pulled his gun and went inside the store. He made the suspects get down on the ground and drop their weapons.
Deputies said he held the suspects until they arrived. All three suspects were arrested.
Wait! Ridiculous and impossible. When anyone other than a trained law enforcement officer (all of whom are experts in super secret ninja warrior stress management techniques and operating tactically during tactical operations) tries to stop crime or engage in self defense or defense of others, guns take on a life of their own and rotate as if a windmill, firing uncontrollably and randomly, killing innocent women and children everywhere. How could this happen?
But there is more.
Although deputies commended the customer for his actions, they don’t recommend this because they say it could have ended in a shootout and someone getting hurt.
Of course. Could this have ended any other way than law enforcement telling others not to do this sort of thing and to leave it to the “experts?”
On October 4, 2016 at 8:03 am, Blake said:
I didn’t know rolling up in a police car while wearing blue uniforms automatically precluded the possibility of a gunfight.
On October 4, 2016 at 8:55 am, Fred said:
Good thing the Samaritan was there. Police would have killed everybody inside and then went to their houses and killed their family dog. You know, officer safety and all, says they go home at night even if it means ONLY they go home.
On October 4, 2016 at 11:31 am, Jack Crabb said:
Ha! And I thought The Only Ones referred to the fact that it required a magic blue costume to safely and properly handle firearms.
I like your definition better, Fred!
On October 4, 2016 at 12:45 pm, Archer said:
The origin of the “Only Ones” is a funny story, if you haven’t heard it.
The term was coined by David Codrea, and refers to DEA agent Lee Paige, who during a school assembly talking about drugs and guns, held up an “empty” Glock for the students to see, saying “I am the only one in this room professional enough, that I know of, to carry this Glock .40″ (emphasis added), right before literally shooting himself in the foot with it.
A video of the incident is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trlPcDg-B4E
On October 4, 2016 at 3:15 pm, Jack Crabb said:
Archer, I did happen to know that. I saw the original video shortly after it made the interwebs. It did take me quite some time to put together David Codrea’s Only Ones with this incident though.
The vid still makes me laugh, too.