Posted on 10/18/2019 4:57:46 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Boston man Jean-Paul LaPierre, who caught a Blue Line train Sunday morning to the Chicago Marathon, said he didnt hesitate to act when he heard someone was robbing people on the train.
I dont like people that strike fear in people like that, he said. I dont like bullies.
A man boarded the train about 5:50 a.m. and showed a handgun to passengers while demanding their money in the 5800 block of North Cumberland Avenue, Chicago police said.
He was very quietly robbing people, LaPierre said. I went up front and said to him, give me the gun and we started fighting for the gun.
With all of the adrenaline in his system, LaPierre said he wasnt thinking about getting shot when he approached the armed robber. Once I got a few feet from him I knew he wasnt going to be able to react fast enough to shoot me.
I was going nuts, he said. When I see someone pull a gun it makes me angry, it makes me really, really angry.
LaPierre said he managed to pry the gun away from the man and was holding onto it with his right hand while maintaining a firm grip on the robber with his left.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
I’d love to slap that woman. What is worse than a gun in the hands of a bad guy?
I lived in Homer Glen for over 30 years. If you ever took Will Cook Road and drove North towards 159th St. and saw a huge tower with a bunch of ham radio antenna's on it in the Twin Lakes Subdivision, that was me.
Punk in pink PING !
Good points. Many larger calibers are very difficult to “conceal.” But there are pocket firearms that work well. A woman has an advantage if she has a purse.
I would hesitate carrying if there is a direct law against it. However, one might be arrested... but still be alive. Note the second half of this sentence.
All fine, until you have to use it. You then are charged with a gun crime, lose your permit, probably go to jail.
All of this is worth it, provided you save a life, but it will cost you $20,000. to be right.
As they say out west (in PA), it is always better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six.
Agreed. In most cases, what they don’t know wont hurt them. The important point is to conceal it which can be a challenge for men and the larger calibers pistols.
It might be nice to have a caliber that can shoot through a brick wall and have 18 rounds, however that kind of firepower requires a very large pistol which is difficult to conceal. So, you end up not carrying. Not carrying defeats the purpose. A smaller caliber pistol with fewer rounds that is easily concealed is better than none at all.
Yep. I’ve seen it.
I lived at (appx) 143rd and Parker.
I’m guessing we know each other.
Mail.
Jean-Paul LaPierre should claim the weapon as his under the Booty Law in Numbers 31:26-47. Booty is also covered in our English common law.
https://www.biblestudytools.com/numbers/passage/?q=numbers+31:26-47
We’re forgetting too many of our common law rights. If you disarm and defeat an enemy in combat, you are rightfully entitled to his property, which includes weapons, personal goods and livestock if he has any. As a member of the militia, Jean-Paul LaPierre now owns that handgun.
I will happily take my chances. There are a fair number of cases now where a conceal/carry has been used in these stupid gun free zones to stop a crime and states attorneys have refused to prosecute. Even here in socialist hellhole Illinois.
It was a thing of beauty, IMO. Miss having it.
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