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Florida: Another Mass Murder Stopped by Armed Citizens
Ammoland ^ | 30 November, 2017 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 12/10/2017 7:00:55 AM PST by marktwain

In Rockledge, Florida, at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, the 25th of November, 2017, two armed citizens stopped a mass murder in progress.  Police Chief Joseph P. LaSata of the Rockledge Police Department, made clear the intervention of the armed citizens was responsible for stopping the murderer. 

Two employees were shot, one killed, in the parking lot. Then two armed employees intervened. From the transcript of this video from wesh.com:

Matt Lupoli, reporter:

Another employee, a manager, came out with a gun of his own and shot and wounded Baily. That man has not been named, but police say he saved several other lives, customers and employees alike.

Rockledge Chief Joseph Lasata:

Mr. Baily had multiple magazines on his person.  He was intent on doing harm. The employees stepped up and prevented customers, employees, and other vendors who were in the business at the time from sustaining further injuries. They did a good job.

The murder suspect, Robert Lorenzo Bailey, Jr, 28, of Cocoa, is in critical condition at the Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melborne. None of his history has been released.The suspect has not been connected to Schlenker Automotive.

The murder and gunfight started in Schlenker's parking lot.  The suspect opened fire on a 25 year old employee, paralyzing him. He shot and killed 50 year old Roger Lee Smith, who had been employed at the shop for numerous years, as Smith came out the door to the parking lot. Then two armed employees, who had concealed carry permits, intervened.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: armedcitizen; banglist; ccw; fl; massmurder
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To: boycott

Another of Obama’s sons.

The damage Obama did to the USA will be felt for about 50 years, IMO.


21 posted on 12/10/2017 8:56:26 AM PST by ridesthemiles (uen)
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To: marktwain

Well, mass might be overstating what would have been multiple murders


22 posted on 12/10/2017 9:00:16 AM PST by Thibodeaux (2018 is looking good)
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To: dljordan
Not 13%, actually less than 5%. We are talking about young black males who make up less than 4% or our population being responsible for about 53% of the firearms homicides and 52% of the non fatal firearms assaults in our nation.

These numbers come directly from the openly published FBI data bank on violent crime in our nation.

When you post these numbers get ready to be attacked as a racist by the left.

Somehow they have come to believe that quoting proven facts makes a person a racist.

23 posted on 12/10/2017 9:03:10 AM PST by oldenuff35
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To: marktwain

I still have my FL CCW.

Of course, the stupid state of MA doesn’t recognize it.

Can you imagine if, when MA was the first state to sanction “gay mawridge”, if the other 49 states had said...”No Reciprocity!”


24 posted on 12/10/2017 9:05:51 AM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: BipolarBob

It looks like a pacifier. What’s up wit dat??


25 posted on 12/10/2017 9:06:26 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: marktwain

When conceal carry was first passed in Florida most of our large newspapers told us it would usher in a ‘wild west’ atmosphere in Florida - - so bad tourists would be afraid to come here...

It was before we had the easy term, “fake news’....

Thank God Good Men With Guns are out there protecting all of us.


26 posted on 12/10/2017 9:31:03 AM PST by GOPJ (Katie Couric - please do a 'special' on NBC women who 'put out' to move up the corporate ladder...)
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To: PROCON

Will never hear about it in the Fake News media


27 posted on 12/10/2017 9:40:34 AM PST by Cheerio (#44, The unknown President)
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To: boycott

If Obama had a son


28 posted on 12/10/2017 10:00:36 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: TADSLOS
Looks like an aeronautical engineer to me.

Please tell me you forgot the /sarc....

Bad enough my old schools all turned their AeroEng curricula into Wind "Power" maintenance/sales programs without getting saddled with that goof.

29 posted on 12/10/2017 10:14:20 AM PST by Unrepentant VN Vet (...against all enemies, foreign or domestic...)
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To: richardtavor

NOt only is Florida a CCCW state, it is a stand your ground state.
If you feel you or others are endangered like this you have every right to shoot.
Too bad these good folks weren’t better shots.


30 posted on 12/10/2017 10:54:56 AM PST by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: ridesthemiles

>>The damage Obama did to the USA will be felt for about 50 years, IMO.<<

Slight clarification: The damage Obama did to the USA, thanks to the Democrat Party, will be felt for about 50 years.


31 posted on 12/10/2017 12:22:51 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: Thibodeaux

>>Well, mass might be overstating what would have been multiple murders<<

Or understating what would have been multiple murders.


32 posted on 12/10/2017 12:25:36 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: Balding_Eagle
we were to exclude Blacks who are in prison (they can’t commit murder, with a couple of exceptions per year) it’s my guess that the actual number would be 3% or less committing more than 50% of the murders

Isn't it amazing that if any other segment of the population was causing such devastation -- and the murders are but a small part of the individual and social cost of injuries from this violence -- there'd be a national mobilation to address it.

Imagine that we were dealing likewise w/ similar scenarios:

- TB: can't make parents inoculate there kids, can we?
- AIDS: sure, let the gays kill each other, no problem!
- School Assaults: oh well, too many video games...
- Sexual Assault: boys will be boys!
- Terrorism: Muzzies will be Muzzies -- oh wait, that's okay in the NYT.

Q: Why do we as a nation tolerate this self-destruction among black males?

A: That's a rhetorical question
33 posted on 12/10/2017 12:49:55 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: BlackbirdSST
Is that a mini light bulb around his neck? The pic is bad but I was seeing a pacifier!

Maybe it's one of those "I've fallen and I can't get up" buttons?

34 posted on 12/10/2017 1:04:24 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: RedMonqey

It’s an airway.

Along with the hospital gown, I’d say this enterprising young felon was seriously F**ked up by the private citizen.

CC


35 posted on 12/11/2017 4:21:35 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (It don't matter if your heart is in the right place, if at the same time your head is up your a$$)
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