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'Point 'em out, knock 'em out': Brutal game ends when assault victim fires his concealed handgun
Mlive ^ | 8-26-2013 | John Barnes

Posted on 08/26/2013 10:45:56 AM PDT by Darren McCarty

The game was called "point 'em out, knock 'em out," and it was as random as it was brutal.

The object: Target an innocent victim for no other reason than they are there, then sucker punch him or her.

But on this day in Lansing, there would be no punch. The teen-age attacker had a stun gun. He did not know his would-be victim was carrying a legally concealed pistol.

The teen lost the game

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The 17-year-old in gym shorts approached his target. The 28-year-old Lansing man was waiting for his daughter at her school-bus stop at REO Road and Ballard Street.

....The teen had two friends nearby - dropped off by a third friend in a van after they scouted their target. They knew what Marvell Weaver was going to do. They had discussed it.

Weaver approached his victim from behind, a black KL-800 Type Stun Gun in his pocket. It is capable of generating 1.8 million volts.

He passed him and turned back, pressed the stun gun into the victim’s side. Again and again, and … nothing. It had fired earlier when testing it, he would later tell police.

“The button was like stuck down … or something. I don’t know what caused it not to work,” according to a transcript of Weaver’s statement.

‘Please don’t kill me’

The intended victim moved quickly, pulling his stainless steel .40-caliber Smith and Wesson. It had a full 10-bullet magazine, and was worth about $900 police estimated.

He shot Weaver in his buttocks as the teen turned to flee.

“It happened so fast I wasn’t sure. I just know something was shoved into my side. I wasn’t sure if it was a knife, if it was anything,” he told police.

Weaver ran, sat down across the street, his leg going numb, bleeding. Pleading.

(Excerpt) Read more at mlive.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: armedcitizen; banglist; ccw; guncontrol; knockoutgame; lansing; secondamendment; stungun
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To: Amagi

When’s the last time you heard a black succeeding in school. Winning a math contest, spelling bee. You only hear about these punks playing the knock-out game, robbing or killing.


81 posted on 08/26/2013 11:50:04 AM PDT by spawn44 ( MOO)
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To: TexasCajun

Probably right. If the young, black, dufus had kept his “broken” taser in his pocket, he wouldn’t have a sore butt now.

No pity for criminals.


82 posted on 08/26/2013 11:50:16 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Mom MD

That was mid-range price on www.wikiarms.com, which is an aggegator of online ammo deals.


83 posted on 08/26/2013 11:51:00 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

Thanks. Guess I’ll check it out.


84 posted on 08/26/2013 11:51:44 AM PDT by Mom MD (A million people attended Obamas inauguration. 14 of them actually missed work)
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To: Darren McCarty

Seems like the blacks are proving what the leftist democrats have been trying to hide.


85 posted on 08/26/2013 11:52:00 AM PDT by spawn44 ( MOO)
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To: Darren McCarty

Years ago I had a similar incident while going into a local mall with my teenaged daughter. We were walking toward the entrance and there was an amish yoot walking in the opposite direction. Suddenly he lunged toward us cocking his arm like he was going to throw a punch. I ducked and started to reach back to draw but by then he had stopped and had clearly been bluffing just to make me flinch. I think he noticed my reaction and threw his hands up, pointed and said something like “just foolin” as he kept walking. I said, “Yeah, its your lucky day”. I hope that jerk learned his lesson.


86 posted on 08/26/2013 11:52:31 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: TexasCajun

My take, too. It is unfair to be shot in the ass with a Kimber, when the perp is on food stamps! Insult to injury!


87 posted on 08/26/2013 11:54:38 AM PDT by cardinal4 (The GOP, the ultimate battered wife? Or willing co-conspirators?)
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To: V_TWIN
“An MLive Media Group investigation found that crime numbers continue to drop across Michigan, even as police ranks decline. Some see the seemingly contradictory trends as proof the proliferation of concealed weapons is deterring lawbreakers.”

MI:Detroit Police to Mayor Candidate: Get a Gun
88 posted on 08/26/2013 11:57:09 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: V_TWIN
“It had a full 10-bullet magazine, and was worth about $900 police estimated.”

Not sure what the point of that comment is, strange.


Something will be brought up later about the disparity of; and unavailability of weapons to "lower class" who would be unable to afford them, I bet. (Heh, I'm considered "poor" and I found deals on weapons).
89 posted on 08/26/2013 11:57:53 AM PDT by Thorliveshere (I wish I lived in Texas.)
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To: Salgak
Pity this story doesn’t have a happy ending: the punk survived. Enough punks get DRT, this crap will stop. . .

I think having the perp survive with perferated buttocks has even more of a deterrent effect than if he had been killed. If he were a dead perp, we would be hearing about Trayvon II. But a live perp is a nasty little jerk for all to see.

90 posted on 08/26/2013 11:58:34 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gun Control Haiku: Say "Registration" / And they call you paranoid / So say "Privacy")
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To: Darren McCarty

Polar bear bites smart.


91 posted on 08/26/2013 12:06:08 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

“40 Caliber S&W Pistol - $900.00”

Around here those things go for ~ $500. For a little more you can get a Glock and then your first shot wont be low because of the DA/SA trigger pull.


92 posted on 08/26/2013 12:09:25 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: Darren McCarty

I don’t have to go to the link to know this was another of “0 bummer’s sons”. People are getting fed up with the feral yutes. I don’t care what his grampa, grama, mamma, or absent sperm donor says, he was a POS. I would have made sure this feral yute was ready for the morgue.

I don’t care if he was an aspiring rapper who had started turning his life around and was getting ready to go back to schrewl this year. A few more of these incidents, and 0 bummer’s sons will think twice about attacking someone at random.

He has just as much room for justice as the Ft Hood terrorist had, who should never had a trial. If I had been there that day, I would have grabbed his gun and emptied an entire magazine into his skull.


93 posted on 08/26/2013 12:14:10 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

>>>For a little more you can get a Glock and then your first shot wont be low because of the DA/SA trigger pull.<<<

And it is also dishwasher safe! ;-)


94 posted on 08/26/2013 12:15:47 PM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
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To: Darren McCarty

Would have been better had the victim dropped his attacker for good.


95 posted on 08/26/2013 12:17:36 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: shotgun

“Authorities say a 16-year-old from Toppenish who was shot while allegedly assaulting residents while burglarizing their home is paralyzed, and it remains unclear if prosecutors will pursue charges as a result...”

And even better later in the same article: “He said he did not know the status of the referral, but anticipated prosecutors may not pursue charges in the near future due to concerns over medical expenses the county would have to pay if it jails the teenager...”

Why not charge him? Try the S.O.B.! If he is paralyzed the taxpayer is going to be footing the bill for his criminally induced disability claim and E.B.T. card anyway. Might as well put him the slammer to cut down on his breeding options. Side benefit is he won’t be limping along slowing down the supermarket checkout line!


96 posted on 08/26/2013 12:19:42 PM PDT by chulaivn66 (Semper Fidelis)
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To: Darren McCarty

It’s just a game. Just teens. Nothing to be upset over. Savage feral future inmates attack a person for fun, and it’s just a game.

But let a WHITE man put on an 0bama mask and ride a horse, or Paula Deen is accused of something 20 years ago, or a salesclerk does what all salesclerks do, and it’s BIG OUTRAGE!

THAT is what’s wrong with the country.


97 posted on 08/26/2013 12:25:37 PM PDT by I want the USA back
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To: TexasCajun

Just a Skittle being a Skittle, what else did anyone expect.


98 posted on 08/26/2013 12:28:38 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Darren McCarty

I didn’t read if the two “nearby friends of the attacker” ever went to help their friend. I expect the cowards didn’t dare.


99 posted on 08/26/2013 12:30:53 PM PDT by Exit148
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To: Darren McCarty

The feral subhuman slug scum is being charged with illegal possession of a stun gun, and the ‘teen’ is free on bond.

No hate crime charge. No assault. No attempted murder.

It’s just a game.


100 posted on 08/26/2013 12:30:57 PM PDT by I want the USA back (You will never stop me from saying feral subhuman savage slug scum when it needs to be said)
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