…why I never walk out of my house without carrying a gun:
A knife-wielding maniac was shot and injured by cops after he started terrorizing a New York City grocery store overnight, the NYPD said Monday.
The suspect was shot outside the City Fresh Market near 120th Street in Harlem just after 1:30 a.m. when he repeatedly refused to drop the 13-inch kitchen blade, according to cops.
The man had been thrown out of the grocery store some time earlier after getting into an argument with someone inside. He later showed up brandishing the knife, police said. Surveillance video obtained by Pix11 captured the man lingering outside the sliding doors and waving the weapon as workers huddled inside.
When police arrived on the scene, the man allegedly kept pointing the knife in their direction before an officer fired. The knifeman took a bullet to his abdomen, was taken to a hospital for surgery and remains in a critical condition.
Sorry, but faced with a similar situation, I’m not going to wait around for the cops to show up. Wave a knife at me, especially one like that, and whatever happens after that is on you.
I’m not boasting or whatever; I’m stating the obvious. Gawd know I don’t want to shoot someone. But I really don’t want to be stabbed just because I happen to be at the supermarket.
Absolutely agree. It’s also painful to point out that places us old farts frequently go when we do leave the house are almost universally placarded against carrying weapons. Both supermarkets and medical facilities of any kind are almost always restricted non-permissive environments. In Texas this restriction is declared by what are called 30.06, 30.07, and 30.05 signs which are of a particular size and shape and are one of the technically correct ways for a business to restrict your rights. (The numbers refer to the sections of the law that governs concealed carry, open carry, or both.)
There is also the 51% sign which prohibits carry in bars and restaurants that derive 51% of their revenue from alcohol sales. 51% signs are often less prominently displayed than the 30-ought signs and it’s much easier to miss them.
All this means that parking lots of clinics, hospitals, supermarkets, and bars are fertile ground for car break-ins targeting those who are obedient to the signs.
All that said, and I’m no expert, but when I wander around my local 30-ought placarded HEB supermarket, I see a goodly number of old farts that I would bet money are strapped. Less so in medical places. I would say that most of the places that I regularly go are restricted. So much for an ostensibly 2A friendly state.
I may be wrong, but with HEB (also a Texan here) they are placarded as banning OPEN carry but concealed carry is still allowed. I know I checked my local one as I was debating the practicality of switching to open carry after I purchased a Ruger GP-100 with the 7-round cylinder. Too many places ban open carry in opinion to make that practical.
As for banning concealed carry, I must confess I’ve yet to see any business with the correct placard banning concealed carry. Of course, I might deliberately not look at the entrance for any placard but that’s not my fault.
We had a local mall that had a no-concealed carry sign on almost all of its doors.
I started using the one that didn’t have the sign.
Damn, now you are going to make me put on my glasses and actually read what HEB currently has posted at my local. I believe it changed when 30.05 became a thing.
Unless it’s a government building like the law courts (where there are metal detectors in the entryway), I pretty much ignore all the 30.x signs. “Concealed” means nobody can see ’em — no harm, no foul.
One more quick update. Just got back from the wife’s PT visit at a local hospital. They were placarded with 46.03 signs. This means no guns no how no way, we don’t care who you are or if you have a license or not. This is the same law that governs courthouses and suchlike. No metal detectors … yet.
Did I ignore it? I’m not sayin’.
This brings up an interesting predicament. Let’s say (God forbid) that you are involved in a defensive shooting and wounded. And let’s say it’s so obviously a defensive shooting that there’s no question that the cops believe your side of the story. Yet now you need an ambulance ride to the nearest trauma center and you’re holding a gun, which again obviously you cannot take with you. What now?
I suppose you give it to one of the cops? Will you ever see it again? I mean, what’s the protocol there?
I guess that’s really a question for guys that carry $3000 Kimbers. My 38 snub is common enough that I could replace it tomorrow, but still, I’d like to eventually get it back. I’ve actually spent way too much time thinking about this scenario.
Q: Who is going to pay for the $10k surgery to fix the idiot?
A: Why, the taxpayers, of course!
Proper answer:
The criminal should be strapped to the wheel and worked as a farm animal until such time that his surgery bill has been paid for.
The result of this criminals restitution should be a condensed video posted on the web to serve as a deterrent to others contemplating similar behavior.
“Q: Who is going to pay for the $10k surgery to fix the idiot?”
Sadly, probably more like $100K – $200K to fix the idiot, unless they do it with a good pocket knife, a soldering iron for cautery, and without anesthesia.
Emergencies require some substitutions ….
My wife and I were discussing church shootings and she was just in disbelief that anyone would want to shoot up a church. My response to her is that you never know what’s going on with the other people’s private lives. They can be right beside you muttering prayers to Jesus and then go home and abuse their kids, download kiddie porn, or cook meth. You have no idea. Someone’s brain could just flip a switch after one too many stressors kick in and then decide that TODAY is the day it happens. It could be a nice sunny day for you and the next person over is quietly losing their fight with their inner demons. And that’s without all the Aloha Snackbar basterds running around. So yeah, supermarket, church, fishing spot, uhh, that’s pretty much everywhere I go these days, stay strapped or get clapped.
A sunny day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evfQ5QCRyeo
I’m in NV – an OPEN CARRY State. Property owners can post their property as banning OPEN and/or CONCEALED CARRY, but the requirements are quite explicit. I was in an establishment that had a posting banning firearms and knives, and was told that I couldn’t CARRY on those premises. I just reminded the proprietor of what NV’s law required of him to post his premises – at all entrances on the outside of the building – and that his sign on an inside wall, behind the counter, was not in compliance and as far as I know had no legal meaning.
Nothing more has been said, and the signage has never been changed.
Virtue Signaling.
There were only 3 places that I would not carry. One is the gym I use (literally across the street from me) because gym shorts, I couldn’t carry in the swimming pool, and didn’t trust the lockers (positive control issues), there’s LOTS of improvised weapons laying around and (most importantly) it’s far off the buslines, well out side of Denver and it’s not the sort of place where trouble escalates that far.
Given the recent issues with pro-Iranian nutjobs I’ve decided that policy needed to change.
The other place is a nightclub that my wife and I attend sometimes. They serve no food, and they do a reasonably good patdown. As soon as I figure out how to get around that though…
The last place is music venues with metal detectors.
Other than that, if I’m out of the house I’ve got a gun on me.
And I don’t plan on gut shooting anyone. At least until the civil war starts.