Posted on 05/27/2008 9:04:40 AM PDT by William Tell 2
What’s the story of you shooting the Uzi if you don’t mind me asking?
“I believe that decent people have a moral obligation to resist criminals. “
I agree, but I am not a good listener and will assume that they want a bullet or three.
Just something fun to do on a shooting trip. The weapon was only borrowed, unfortunately.
The kids in this article gave their attackers all they had. The young man in the article below saved his girlfriend’s life. He was a very brave kid, and was a hunter:
Tyler J. Binsted, a 19-year-old student at Virginia Commonwealth University was found shot to death March 27, 2008 morning in Byrd Park.
Police responded to reports of a shooting in the 600 block of South Sheppard Street. They found Binsted, a student from Mount Jackson in Shenandoah Valley, who had been shot in the back after a robbery near the Byrd Park tennis courts.
Binsted, a sophomore sculpture major at VCU, was walking in the park with his 21-year-old girlfriend when they were approached by two males, one armed with a gun. It was sometime after midnight. Hours earlier, they’d played tennis near this same spot.
Binsted and his girlfriend were robbed of their car keys. They were standing there when the robbers told them to get in the trunk. Binsted put his hand on the lid and closed it shut. He said, “We’re not doing that,” as reported by his girlfriend.
In the thin light of night near the tennis courts, the stand-off seemed to dissipate. The couple already had given up all they had, she said.
“We thought it was over with,” Binsted’s girlfriend said. They started to walk away, then broke into a run.
But a shot rang out and Binsted fell to the ground.
Binsted’s girlfriend tried to flag down a car to help her dying friend, a frightening new chapter evolved.
The assailants had driven off in her car after the shooting; then her car loomed into view again and a male with a gun suddenly approached her. “I think they had come back to kill me,” she said.
She ran to the rear of a second car she had stopped seconds earlier, grabbed at the back door and jumped in.
She had escaped. But the driver refused to help other than to take her away. His cell phone didn’t work, he said.
She got out at Cary Street and Boulevard and ran west on Cary. A man whose name she doesn’t know let her use his cell phone. Moments later, she watched an ambulance pass her on Cary, headed to Binsted.
The suspects fled in Binsted’s car, a navy blue Honda Accord, with Virginia license plate PHA 787. Police described the suspects as black males, between 14 and 17 years old, who were last seen driving toward South Richmond by the Boulevard Bridge.
Published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on 3/27/2008 and 3/28/2008.
That range looked like the ones at Front Sight. I thought you had taken them up on their offer for free machine gun lessons.
Looks good. I’m still trying to get to the TexasCowboy memorial shoots. I keep saying, “next year for sure”.
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