Posted on 07/02/2013 12:21:06 AM PDT by OddLane
NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre was famously ridiculed in elite circles for his post-Newtown observation that "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."
Well, from the facts-are-stubborn-things department comes this item from Atlanta:
Police say an armed man trying to rob customers outside an Atlanta shoe store was fatally shot by one of the patrons waiting in line to buy sneakers.
WSB-TV reports the shooting happened Saturday morning in the city's Little Five Points neighborhood, where people lined up outside Wish Clothing to buy new $180 sneakers endorsed by Miami Heat star LeBron James.
(Excerpt) Read more at ricochet.com ...
Only thing that stuck out to me in this article is standing in line to buy $180 sneakers.
Idiots.
This actually one of the symptoms of what I think of is an aimless society. Don’t accumulate anything beyond what you can wear, carry, or drive off in.
How many people consider shooting someone in the back as they are fleeing, "self defense"?
Dude pops him 3x in the back, and they have GZ on trial?
“Only thing that stuck out to me in this article is standing in line to buy $180 sneakers”
But, but, but, they’re endorsed by LeBron James!!! He’s a celebrity!!! Don’t you realize what that means!!! If I wear celebrity endorsed sneakers I too will be a cool celebrity!!! (Okay, I’m out of exclamation points. You can get up now.)
Only thing that stuck out to me in this article is standing in line to buy $180 sneakers.
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Unfortunately, the same thing struck me.
How many people consider shooting someone in the back as they are fleeing, “self defense”?
Dude pops him 3x in the back, and they have GZ on trial?
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This article doesn’t say he shot him in the back and doesn’t say he was shot thrice. Is that from other coverage of the robbery attempt?
Depends. If the perp was still a danger to others AND the shooter believed that he was going to hurt someone else then it is a good shooting.
BTW where in the OP does it say the perp was shot in the back?
And three times?
There is a video out there. This wasn’t a self defense shooting, it was a gang shooting. I think you’ll understand when you see the video. The shooter did apparently have a concealed weapons permit, though.
Shot in the back 3x while fleeing = self defense.
Is standing in line to buy 180.00 shoes any different than standing in line to buy the latest piece of expensive electronic junk? It’s the same mindset. Status symbols among the Blue Pill Takers.
The article was about a robbery and sneakers selling for $180,00.
Big difference in mindsets. 99% of the people who buy $180.00 sneakers probably bought them using a government entitlement of some sort and the rest of the family goes without and getting robbed buying sneakers tells you the location your in.
I don’t stand in line for expensive electronic crap and those that do are still idiots in my book but the difference here is that 99% of those who do probably worked for the money to buy the crap and probably wouldn’t get robbed where they are standing in line.
The lack of journalistic integrity is distressing.
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