Customer, armed robbers engage in shootout

click2houston.com ^ | 26 Nov 2011 | unattributed

[smokingfrog]

HOUSTON -

Two armed suspects attempted to rob a Denny's restaurant, but ended up fleeing for safety after a shootout with a customer.

The shootout happened at a Denny's restaurant in the 11000 block of the East Freeway around 5:50 a.m. Saturday.

Officials said two armed suspects wearing bandannas entered and attempted to rob the store. The sole customer in the restaurant, a licensed concealed handgun carrier, observed the suspects enter, pulled out his own gun, took cover and fired at the robbers.

Officials said the suspects returned fire and fled the restaurant. The customer followed the suspects, firing as he went. The suspects jumped into a white minivan and fled the scene.

[dfwgator]

What’s Fonzie like?

[GOPJ]

Liberals are getting major grants to study why crime is going down - in spite of higher unemployment etc.

Yeah, taxpayers are being force to pay for the obvious - an "obvious' academics won't discover for years...

Here it is - this article's a hint. Citizens are fighting back. The "cost" of being a criminal has gone waaaaaaay up. It's no longer a question of sitting in a prison with a bunch of friends being fed four squares a day. Nope, now it's a question of 'will someone shoot back and kill..."

[TigerClaws]

First, robbery here at a late night diner. Robbers stole a guy’s wallet. Then shot him in the head. In danger for your life any time some thug pulls a gun.

Second, had he chased them outside and shot one in the back of the head while they were driving away, he very well may have been charged for a crime. If shooter were white and victim black, Jesse and Company would be matching. rev. Al on tv calling for “justice” and the white politicians would fold and DA would go for charges, exactly as happened in the Duke lynching.

[TStro]

Not here in Texas. Our Castle Doctrine leaves us a lot of leeway. These guys shot at him.
I can shoot someone breaking into my car, sans weapon, if I think they may be a danger to me. Criminals here are learning the hard way we’re fed up.

[Pontiac]

Quite a stutter you have there.

[aruanan]

Quite a stutter you have there.

Interesting. I noticed that someone yesterday about the same time had repeated posts. It must have been a software hiccup of some kind in the server. I never hit the post button more than once.

[Robert357]

If you don't terrorize the punks and pursue them with prejudice, they will feel safe enough to try again, with more guns. They need to be killed whenever possible, to reduce the infestation and as a lesson to their friends.

If you really feel that way, then work to change the laws governing use of deadly force.