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Man accused of pulling gun on victim wearing MAGA hat
www.wbko.com ^ | Posted: Sun 6:54 PM, Feb 17, 2019 | Updated: Sun 11:09 PM, Feb 17, 2019 | By Darby Beane

Posted on 02/18/2019 9:09:05 AM PST by Red Badger

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) -- A Tennessee man is in jail after being accused of pulling a gun on a Sam's Club customer Saturday.

According to the police report, officers were called to Sam's Club due to a person with a gun.

According to the alleged victim Terry Pierce, a man pulled a gun on him because he was wearing a Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat.

"I have as much right to wear that hat and support my country and my president as he has not to," said Pierce.

The police report confirms that the suspect, identified as James Phillips, admitted to flipping off Pierce and Pierce's wife because of their hats.

Pierce tells 13 News that he was shopping with his wife when Phillips "Pulled a .40 caliber out and stuck it in my face, backed up and said, 'It's a good day for you to die.'"

Pierce went on to tell 13 News, "I said, 'Then pull the trigger. Put the gun down and fight me or pull the trigger. Whichever one you want.' And he backed up and he said it again, he said, 'It's a good day for you to die.'"

Pierce said the Phillips then took off. That's when Pierce followed him out into the parking lot.

"I went out the front of the store to confront him again and that's when I got him in his car. He couldn't leave because his mother was still in the store. And we were having a verbal altercation outside," said Pierce.

Pierce added, "He tried telling me I assaulted him and I said, 'I never touched you.'"

According to the police report, surveillance video confirms Pierce's story that he did not put his hands on Phillips.

The report does mention that witnesses and Pierce said Phillips pulled a gun on Pierce inside the store but this couldn't be seen on surveillance video due to Phillips backing out of the view of the camera.

In the report, police say Phillips had a Glock .40 caliber with a round chambered in his back pocket and two additional magazines in another pocket. Police say Phillips has a current concealed carry permit in Tennessee, where he is from.

No one was injured, but police arrested Phillips for wanton endangerment first degree. Phillips is in the Warren County Regional Jail.

We will update this story as we learn more.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: again; maga
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To: A strike
A little bit sideways, but, what kind of a knucklehead follows a man who had a gun in his face into the parking lot to confront him ?!

I wouldn't venture a guess seeing as how he called it perfectly. I also wouldn't be so bold as to call him a knucklehead, given the results.

41 posted on 02/18/2019 9:52:12 AM PST by papertyger (Now we know why Star Chambers were a thing.)
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To: flamberge

I think you mean Phillips. He was the one swinging his piece around, shooting his mouth off.


42 posted on 02/18/2019 9:54:11 AM PST by papertyger (Now we know why Star Chambers were a thing.)
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To: A strike

Pierce already dared the MAGA hat hater to shoot him, then challenged him to a fistfight. The hater retreated & then Pierce knew he was a coward. The confrontation in the parking lot was anticlimax.

Reckless courage? Maybe; I’ll spend the rest of today wondering how I would have acted. No MAGA hat yet, but I wear a jacket with NRA on the pocket & a Vietnam vet cap which have gotten me dirty looks (from Muslims!) but no action so far.


43 posted on 02/18/2019 9:54:48 AM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: papertyger

Oops, my bad. You are correct.


44 posted on 02/18/2019 9:55:28 AM PST by flamberge (It seemed like a good idea at the time)
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To: flamberge

Out on probation with his CCW gone and his right to bear arms gone.


45 posted on 02/18/2019 9:56:13 AM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: FreedomPoster

I kinda like my Moshe shirt. Just to remind the other side there are guys on our side who have no compunction about personally shooting them.


46 posted on 02/18/2019 9:58:45 AM PST by papertyger (Now we know why Star Chambers were a thing.)
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To: Red Badger

Little Man Syndrome is a real disorder. I’m related to a couple of guys that have it. They are major league a$$holes.


47 posted on 02/18/2019 9:58:53 AM PST by tuffydoodle (God's character and moral nature are absolute, eternal, and unchanging.)
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To: Red Badger

I was waiting outside a business in at 0930 in Damascus MD and some guy -about same age- walks to his truck with a MAGA hat on.

I waited until I knew both hands were busy (unlocking his truck) and YELLED....
“THAT HAT”...with the proper pause for effect,
“AMEN BROTHER, it and you are the greatest”

Heads turned, some with a ‘knowing smile’ and some with ‘disgust’....

He said “I get just enough crap for it and really pees off a lot of people. It does the job”

I pointed to my ‘Vietnam Vet-USNavy’ cap and told him I knew exactly what he meant....

We shook hands

Probably shouldn’t have done or said anything as the state of MD doesn’t appreciate me exercising my right to concealed carry or recognize my VA ‘ticket’ so I have to be (more) careful about being confrontational


48 posted on 02/18/2019 10:03:40 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98"Getting rich as a Politician means doing something illegal''(trunc) HS Truman)
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To: tuffydoodle

I know it’s real.

I’ve known several with it.

It usually involves consumption of alcohol.................


49 posted on 02/18/2019 10:06:04 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: papertyger
I just got one of those Che shirts, but instead of Che it has Moshe Dayan's face on it.

I wonder just how many FReepers even would recognize or know who Moshe Dayan was.

50 posted on 02/18/2019 10:09:04 AM PST by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: xrmusn

I have only gotten good comments from wearing my MAGA hat.

I tell people the real magic of the hat is not who it attracts, but who it keeps away...………………….

When I get a good comment, I ask them where their hat is. Most say it is home, they can’t wear it because of work.


51 posted on 02/18/2019 10:09:50 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Roccus

The eyepatch kind of gives it away.


52 posted on 02/18/2019 10:18:00 AM PST by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: papertyger

” I wouldn’t venture a guess seeing as how he called it perfectly. I also wouldn’t be so bold as to call him a knucklehead, given the results. “

SERIOUSLY ?!?

So if Pierce had received one right between the eyes in the parking lot, then he Might have been a knucklehead ?


53 posted on 02/18/2019 10:21:26 AM PST by A strike (I DEMAND my responsibilities!)
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To: A strike

But he didn’t....

I make it a point never to argue with performance.


54 posted on 02/18/2019 10:23:23 AM PST by papertyger (Now we know why Star Chambers were a thing.)
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To: Red Badger

All the Cons will love Phillips’s ‘pleasure bent ears’ in the joint.


55 posted on 02/18/2019 10:26:47 AM PST by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: Beagle8U

I don’t know KY laws.

Will he even get any jail time or just a big fine and community service?.................


56 posted on 02/18/2019 10:28:27 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: bubbacluck

Only for those who know.
He died almost 40 years ago.


57 posted on 02/18/2019 10:29:10 AM PST by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Red Badger
TDS "has to be a legitimate recognized medical affliction first.......................'

The APA can fix that with a memo just like they did when they declared homosexuality and all other deviancies to be normal behavior.

58 posted on 02/18/2019 10:29:29 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Red Badger

I’d bet he’ll get some jail time.


59 posted on 02/18/2019 10:30:26 AM PST by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: fella

Well it IS ‘normal behavior’...............................for homos....................


60 posted on 02/18/2019 10:31:00 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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