The Broward State's Attorney's Office no doubt wants as many law-abiding armed citizens as possible to be out there helping with crime control.
She and her husband, Ivory Jones, pastor of a Fort Lauderdale church, . . . They said their grandson sometimes hung with the wrong crowd but never got into legal trouble. According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, he has no arrest record.
Well he's sure as heck in some legal trouble now. And something tells me he had no ADULT arrest record, which is very different from having no arrest record.
Gadson was hit in the chest and ran from the store. Police dogs found him in the hedges of a nearby office building and bank.
Shoulda left him there til he was good and dead.
Arrindell, friends said, found himself in a similar situation: no high school diploma and working odd jobs. So he went back to school. He was a man with past troubles, including a 2004 arrest for carrying a concealed weapon, but he was improving his life, they said. He recently bought a car and had a girlfriend.
Maybe if his friends and family had asked a few more questions about where he got the money to buy that car, they could have doen some aggressive intervention in his life then, and he'd still be alive now. They need to take a long look at themselves in the mirror.
On a very serious note, it's WAY past time the RKBA movement got to work removing the "SELF" from laws permitting shooting in self-defense. Mr. Lovell shouldn't have had to wait until the perps turned on him to legally shoot them. He should have been perfectly free to shoot them while they were focusing on the cashier, without fear of prosecution.
I believe that's aleady the case in most states.
Here in Arizona the relevant statute reads:
"Section 13-406:
A person is justified in threatening or using physical force or deadly physical force against another to protect a third person if:
Dang! That thing shoots micro BB's!
Arrindell was struck twice — once in the head and once in the stomach...
Gadson was hit in the chest...
Nice grouping, and he probably only pulled the trigger 3 times.
No charges files because the DA got a phone call explaining how Mr. Lovell had ably served the Kennedy/Johnson administration aboard Marine 1.
Good deal!