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To: marktwain

Then why would the guy jump him after he shot and killed the other? he should have run or assumed the begging position.


15 posted on 12/10/2008 6:03:38 PM PST by nufsed
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To: nufsed
“Then why would the guy jump him after he shot and killed the other? he should have run or assumed the begging position.”

These situations often develop very rapidly, more complexly than newpaper accounts care to take the time to describe.

It sounded as though it went down like this:

Store owner sees suspicious activity at the store and investigates. He has a gun in his pocket but does not draw it. The robber with the shotgun gets the drop on him and orders him to his knees.

The other robber hearing the first call to him, comes to investigate. At this point the store owner, fearing he is to be executed, slaps aside the shotgun as he rises, struggling with the first robber. He manages to draw his pistol and shoot the robber he is struggling with, mortally wounding him. As this is going on, for perhaps two seconds, the second robber reaches the struggling pair as the first robber is shot. He is committed, so he continues the attack, but the store owner now has his pistol in his hand and is able to shoot and wound him and drive him off, in the next two seconds.

Total elapsed time from the decision to resist - maybe 4 seconds.

17 posted on 12/10/2008 6:12:59 PM PST by marktwain
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I will give you another possibility as well. The store owner struggles with and shoots the first robber. He is then standing over him, fixated on the man who was just threatening to kill him, when the second robber comes on the scene and seeing him preoccupied, thinks he can take him, and jumps him, only to find that it wasn't as easy as he thought, and gets shot for his felonious efforts.
19 posted on 12/10/2008 6:19:56 PM PST by marktwain
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