Reader Andy T. sent me this little video, and it had me giggling like a little girl. As he put it:
“Not quite a Righteous Shooting (this apparently occurred in NYC), but definitely a Righteous Beating thanks to a couple of PO’ed Sikhs…”
Taking the law into their own hands, and righteously so. I bet the beatee doesn’t come near that shop again.
I must have watched the thing a dozen times, and I bet you will too.
Seems as though this man’s car was stolen, but the thieves were unaware that nowadays, you can track your car’s location. Which is what Our Hero did, and confronted said scumbags in a mall parking lot. He made them get out of the car at gunpoint and sit on the ground while everyone awaited the arrival of the San Antonio police.
Well, our Senior Scumbag wasn’t going to take this lying (sitting?) down, so he pulled his own gun and popped off at the car owner.
Whereupon Our Hero wasted the fucker AND shot Scumbag’s accomplice in the leg, I assume lest she wanted to retrieve her late partner’s gun and continue the festivities.
Quote of the day comes from the SAPD chief:
‘Certainly a case of self-defense, is what we have.’
Then, for the lawyers, he added (no doubt with a shrug):
‘We would prefer that they call the police before taking that into your own hands, but he did what he felt he needed to do.’
I think some applause for both the chief and Our Hero would be appropriate:
Texas, baby.
Of course, the family of the corpus delicti is all boohoohoo about it (sent by Longtime Friend and Reader John C.):
“Whether my brother was wrong or right, he had a gun pointed at him. I guess he took it upon himself to defend himself. The guy who shot him is a vigilante, not a hero,” Jose Garcia told KENS 5. “A vehicle is not worth taking someone’s life, I don’t care what kind of car it is. You don’t take the law into your own hands. Now my mom, my family, we all have to suffer and just deal with it.”
Errr well, I hate to break it to you, Jose, but under Texas law, self-defense during the commission of a crime is not justifiable. And the law is always in the hands of the citizen — we just deputize its enforcement to government. But when the government is late to the scene, or absent altogether, it is absolutely the right of the citizen to enforce it. Deputization is not the same as abrogation, despite what government wants you to think.
Also, if a vehicle is not worth a life, your deceased choirboy brother didn’t think the same way — or else he would not have been carrying a gun himself. Clearly, he thought that a car was worth more than a life, which is why he ended up the way he did.
In any event, fuck him, he’s dead, the dangerous criminal asshole. And while you’re right to mourn him, I’ll bet this wasn’t the first time he’d caused the family grief and heartache. Everyone (your family included) is better off without him, as it is without all dangerous criminals.
Looks as though Fargo ND dodged a bullet — more specifically, several bullets and a bomb — when they whacked a terrorist of the Religion Of Peace persuasion recently:
When he came upon a fender bender last Friday afternoon, [Mohammed] Barakat was armed with multiple weapons, explosives and grenades and had spray painted the back windows of his car.
“Based on the time and the direction he was going he was either likely to be taking a right when he got to main avenue going downtown and taking a left when he got to main avenue and going to the fairgrounds,” Wrigley said.
Video footage reveals he came upon the crash, circling and casing the scene for about 15 minutes before parking his car and opening fire, killing 23-year-old officer Jake Wallin and critically injuring officers Andrew Dotas and officer Tyler Hawes, as well as, civilian Karlee Koswick (who was involved in the initial car accident).
Barakat was eventually shot by officer Zach Robinson and later died at the hospital.
Given how much the Powers That Be (even in Fargo ND FFS) are keen to downplay the motives of this asshole, I’m surprised the D.A. didn’t describe him as a “street vendor, on his way to peddle his wares at the fairgrounds”. (That the wares happened to include bombs and stuff are irrelevant, of course.)
Of course, the Fibbies had no fucking idea of this tool’s intentions, they being too busy tracking down terrorists in the Angry Anti-Grooming Parent Brigade.
Just a bunch of incompetent poltroons, the lot of them.
Wait, who let the Brit chick in?
And to celebrate the Great American Family:
From the rest of us:
And some more citizens with guns:
Makes you proud to be American, dunnit?
And from Across The Pond, a sour greeting:
Not a shooting this time; but it reminds me of the old saying, “If guns are outlawed, may we use swords?”
Seems as though some asswipe was hassling a couple on a NYC subway train, and when the hassling became dangerous, the male of the couple produced a knife and stuck it in the choirboy’s chest, the latter assuming room temperature soon thereafter.
But wait! There’s more!
Of course, because this happened in NYfC, Our Hero was arrested and the fuzz set about charging him with murder, unlawful use of a kitchen implement, terminal frightening or whatever stupid laws they have in New York these days.
BUT: after reviewing all the facts, all charges were dropped because, and I quote,
“Under New York law, a person is justified in using deadly physical force when they reasonably believe it is necessary to use such force to defend themselves or others from imminent use of deadly or unlawful physical force.”
Sounds more like Texas or Florida than NYFC, but whatever.
And speaking of quotes, let’s hear it from the late choirboy’s family:
Ouedraogo’s younger sister Marina said she believes the dismissal was “just wrong,” The New York Times reported. “It is sending a signal that basically any one of us can carry a weapon.”
Well, yeah… welcome to the Second Amendment, honey.
Ron Spomer talks to Hitchcock45. Hilarity and sound learning ensues. His reason for quitting hunting alone is worth the price of admission.
That, and his admission that he’s trying to attract hot chicks through his channel…
Myself, I watch his shows because like me, he just loves shooting guns. Almost any gun — but mostly, the older guns.
I don’t have either of them anymore… but I wish I did. And both Ron and Hitch would agree with me.