Range time hel, he'd be downright scary after range time..

I mean:
If people like Bloombeg had his way..that shop owner would now be dead instead of the robbers.

Gus was not a vigilante. He did not go out looking to hunt down POS like that. He simply defended what was his against an armed attack. Pretty American thing to do in my book.

From what I am seeing being an American these days is Anti-American..go figger. :rolleyes:

It seems self-defense is an idea that is spreading, as is opposition to self-defense.


Clerk armed and ready for robbers, kills one
11:10 AM CDT on Saturday, August 15, 2009, By Jeremy Desel / 11 News

HOUSTON—Life can change in a second. It can also end. Cell phone store owner, Javid Iqbal saw both on Wednesday afternoon, in just 17 seconds. “It is a part of my life that I will have to remember all of the time,” Iqbal recalls.

It was amazingly fast. Security video released to 11 News showed Iqbal behind the elevated counter, when the would-be robbers rush the store. Two men with bandanas covering their faces, the leader gun in hand, vaulted over the case. But in the five seconds that it took, Iqbal was already around the corner in the back, gun in hand. “I see that guy come in the back pointing a gun. I just started shooting,” Iqbal says.

The two men were just inches apart, arms and guns extended. Iqbal fired three times, hitting 34-year-old Bryan Thorn. Both robbers tried to flee after shots were fired, the second (still unidentified) man made it out, but Thorn did not. He collapsed dead in the doorway.
Iqbal said he could only think about the three most important people in his life, “I was thinking about my family; my little girl, my wife, my father,” he said. All of them were within six feet of the shooting in the back of the store. “My little three-year-old girl was in the store playing on the computer. The first thing wasn’t mine. I have to save my family,” Iqbal said, recalling the 17 seconds he will never forget.

This isn’t the first time. This store’s prior owner back in 2005 was also the victim of multiple robberies. One of those resulted in a shootout, which was also captured on video. Not long after that, the owner-who was held up by three men and was not hurt- would sell this store to Iqbal. Iqbal went on to do great business; but not all for profit, sometimes it came at a price. In all he’s been robbed four times, but no suspects were ever caught.

That is why his wife forced him to buy a gun and learn how to use it.

“Four robberies? Now I am not going to go through that again. All this happens. I have to take a stand somewhere,” Iqbal says. The store is now open again after the shooting. His customers are standing with him.

“What if a stray bullet would have hit their daughter or hit his wife? Oh I’m sorry? For $20? Come on man,” said Carl English, who was in to pay his cell bill. [BJC- I wonder if he is referring to the criminals or the victim? I suspect he is referring to the victim here :mad:]

The store is still open, but Iqbal doesn’t know how long that will remain. He is now looking for a new, safer location. Iqbal said that being robbed four times in a little over a year is all that his family can take. They are planning to move on soon.

He might need something to put that ammo in. ;)

Good job, Sir. Screw the perps.

And another - from the realgunguys blog.
http://therealgunguys.com/blog/2009/...-2-bad-guys-0/


Victim Kills Would-Be Robber
By Elizabeth Braun, Melanie Stout
MILWAUKEE – A man was being robbed at gunpoint when he pulled out his own gun and shot one of the suspects.
It all happened early Thursday near 1st and Clarke. The 23-year-old Milwaukee man was in the area when two teenagers pulled out a gun and tried to rob him.

That victim also had a gun. He shot and killed one suspect, 17-year-old Kevin Ollie. Ollie’s gun also went off, and he accidentally shot the other teen robber.
The robbery victim’s family says he had no choice but to fight back.
That robbery victim has never been convicted of a crime and is not in custody.
The 19-year-old surviving robber is behind bars. The DA is deciding whether he will face felony murder charges for his role in the botched robbery.
The robbery victim’s family hopes that happens.

The robbery victim was not hurt during the ordeal. Friday detectives brought him to a line up to identify the robbery suspect.

A decision on charges against the 19-year-old surviving robber should come Monday.

Best smile I've had all day.:D

I thought the same thing:). Poetic justice has been served.