3 Boxes of BS

Sooner or later, I hope, criminals are going to learn it is dangerous to try robbing someone in Texas.

FORT WORTH — A suspected robber was killed and his intended target was hospitalized with minor injuries in a shooting Tuesday afternoon outside a southeast Fort Worth business, officials said.

Desmond Paige, 20, of Fort Worth was pronounced dead at 1:08 p.m. in the parking lot of a business in the 7400 block of Wichita Street, the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office reported.

20 years old and he owned a pistol; unless it was a gift from a parent, he owned it illegally. Imagine that.

The other man was not identified.

Investigators believe the two men met because one of them had advertised on Craigslist that he was buying cellphones. One tried to rob the other, police said.

The robbery target was a licensed concealed-handgun carrier, police said.

Not quite Thunderdome in Bartertown but a stark reminder — when you answer an ad on Craig’s list you never know who you are truly dealing with or their motives. Be careful out there folks.

MedStar spokesman Matt Zavadsky said paramedics told him that the robbery target “took out his gun, and he shot the alleged perpetrator in the chest several times.”

The man with the gun was shot in the arm. His injury was not life-threatening, Zavadsky said. It was not clear late Tuesday whether he was shot by Paige or shot himself, officials said.

I’m going to guess a person cool enough to draw when he is already has a pistol aimed at him isn’t likely to shoot himself but it isn’t impossible.

And I want to take a moment to address the stupidity that anti-rights cultists often throw out with “Your property isn’t worth someone’s life even if he is a criminal”.  The moment the thug threatened deadly force it stopped being about ‘property’ and became about the victims life !!! What is so hard to understand about that?

From the Texas Penal Code Section 9.01

(3)  ”Deadly force” means force that is intended or known by the actor to cause, or in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing, death or serious bodily injury.

The thug threatened to use deadly force in order to get what he wanted. It isn’t as if he walked up empty handed, said “Please give me your cell phone, wallet and money” and would have walked away peacefully if told NO.  When threatened with deadly force the best answer is deadly force, not cowering in submission.

So Mr./Ms/ Anti-Rights Cultist, instead of asking gun owners to not defend themselves; why don’t you spend a little time reaching out to the criminals- see if you can get them to stop threatening to kill people?

(H/T to GregTag)

A Texas homeowner with nerves of steel subdued three burglars with a rifle that wasn’t even loaded, it was revealed today.

Randy Magdeleno stumbled on the three teens in his Houston house on Wednesday and grabbed his rusty .22-caliber rifle.

He said he bluffed his way through the encounter, pointing the weapon at the intruders and telling them to lie on the floor as he called his wife at work and told her to phone the police. 

Outnumbered 3 to 1 but with a .22 caliber rifle that wasn’t even loaded, he was able to even the odds more then a bit.  Solid Brass Ones

The old Mossburg rifle was built for shooting rabbits, squirrels and other rodents and fires a low-power round from a relatively slow bolt action that requires manual cocking after each shot.

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‘So I grabbed my rifle and I came around through here in my kitchen,’ he told the TV station.

‘It was scary, I didn’t know what I was walking into and hearing people running around inside my house at the same time. I didn’t know if they were carrying weapons around or not.’

Mr Magdeleno said the teens were complaint when they saw his gun – they never suspected it wasn’t loaded.

Given that many cops would have either hesitated to enter or called in SWAT, I think the situation ended very well. I don’t fault the home owner for checking out the scene; it could have been a family member, neighbor or friend. Someone he didn’t want to call the cops on.

But in  a situation where there are multiple voices and evidence of a crime; walking into that scene with an unloaded bolt action rifle is gutsy; solid brass ones gutsy.

It must drive the anti-rights advocates crazy to read about stories like this; no injuries, no deaths and a crime in progress stopped.

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Quick, describe the  appearance of someone breaking into a house to rob it and then tell me how the appearance differs from someone breaking into your house to kill everyone in it.

Could you do it now? Could you do it in the few moments for someone to break a window and climb in?
Most people can’t so they rightfully treat those with no permission to be in their house as the worst case scenario.

Such a scene play out in Dallas yesterday

A homeowner fatally shot a man as he climbed through a window and into his home Monday afternoon, Dallas police say.
 
The shooting took place at a home on the 2200 block of Morrell Avenue at about 4:15 p.m.
 
Police said the homeowner heard a noise inside his residence and shot a man, later identified as 33-year-old Deyfon Pipkins, aka BJ, as he climbed through the window.

“The homeowner heard a noise. He came around the corner, saw the individual trying to climb into the window and according to the law, the castle doctrine, he used deadly force,” said Sgt. Calvin Johnson, with the Dallas Police Department.

Note to criminals and the antis; read what the police department said — ‘according to the law’ – the homeowner didn’t “take the law into his own hands”. He followed the letter and apparently the spirit of the law as it was written by our elected representatives.
Of course the law also provides for a review of the victims actions and the Grand Jury will decide if he will face any charges. Given what the mother had to say, I would be very surprised if any are brought.

Pipkins mother, Catherine, said she had been called to the scene by her daughter-in-law and said the crime sounded like something her son would do.
 
“Yeah, it’s something he would do … Somebody called me and said my son got shot that’s the reason I’m standing here,” said Catherine Pipkins. “….

Pipkins had a lengthy criminal history in Dallas that included numerous charges for theft, trespassing and possession of a controlled substance.

Very unusual; normally the deceased is a boy scout, choir boy teaching orphans to read after he volunteers are a homeless charity. My sympathy does go out to the family; regardless of his criminal past they have lost a loved one.

The homeowner faced a terrible choice but it was one brought on by the actions of the deceased. The world, contrary to the protestations of the antis, is not a safe place. We had escaped convicted felons running loose in the area.  We have former law enforcement officers killing people. We random crime happening in supposedly safe places “but it is a skating rink, people should ‘feel’ safe there”.  We have wild animals squaring off over territory in suburban neighborhoods.

The world is simply not a safe place. It is safer then many places and safer then many times in history but that isn’t the same thing as safe. So what is making it safer then before?
Some will argue that it is the law but we’ve had laws for thousands of years so I doubt it. There is a possibility that the longer life and better living conditions means less people are scrambling for limited resources. Prosperity can reduce crime but that doesn’t fully explain it.  Could it be that effective self defense is affordable and practical for the average citizen more then ever before?

The home owner in this report probably didn’t spend dozens of years learning to use a weapon like sword play requires or most martial arts. The home owner probably didn’t spend months or years worth of salary buying a firearm like swords or crossbows or even firearms cost in the past.
Affordable weapons, easy to use and abundant ammunition (well there used to be at least) combined with laws protecting the right of the people to defend themselves and their property is a reasonable explanation of the lower crime/violence rates.

The anti-rights cultists want to change that. They want to make firearms less available, they want to make ammunition more costly, they want to force the home owners or victims to run away before defending themselves. This is cultural divide that goes beyond the best way to implement a policy. This is one group of people wanting to deprive another group of their rights. Regardless of their public veneer, read what laws they are pushing. Look at the Washington law where they put in a provision that allows for warrant-less yearly inspections of homes simply for owning a firearm. It didn’t get in there by accident; someone thought it was a good idea at one point. Joe Biden knows the laws they pushing won’t stop another mass shooting; but he is pushing it anyways under the guise of doing something . What they are doing is stripping away our rights.

I know I”m preaching to the choir here but maybe someone will read it and change their mind. Maybe someone will decide to call a legislator where they might not have otherwise. If nothing else, I am another voice in the debate telling the antis that enough is enough. Maybe if enough of us say it they will finally get it. If nothing else, they will not be able to say it was because no one spoke up.

Antis -Hear it now, read it hear and elsewhere — the time for your version of compromise is over. We will insist on our rights. We will have them one way or another.

Some anti-rights cultists (yes, I’m talking about you NameandNumbers) want to claim there are very few Defensive Gun Uses each year.

So I wonder how they explain yet another reported case of Defensive Gun Use, like this one:

The suspect, Christopher Lance Moore, 41, of Bedford, was inside the house early Tuesday morning when he was surprised by the homeowner, Parker County sheriff officials said.

When asked what he was doing by the homeowner, the man answered, “Just unlucky, I guess,” authorities said.

Moore then left the house and proceeded to get inside his pickup truck, where the homeowner confronted him — with a gun, authorities said.

“The homeowner did call first,” Parker County Sheriff Deputy Danie Huffman said Wednesday. “But he did have a gun on the suspect.”

Parker County sheriff deputies arrived at the scene and arrested the 41-year-old Moore, who is expected to be charged with burglary of a habitation.

He remained in the Parker County Jail in Weatherford Wednesday in lieu of $35,000 bail.

The homeowner was not arrested.

Now not only did this stop an actual crime in progress, it probably prevented several other crimes. Unless you are mentally challenged or an anti-rights cultists (but I repeat myself) and think Mr. Christopher Lance Moore was going to burglar that one and only that one home.

In addition, the homeowner told deputies and police that he had asked the suspect what his intentions were inside of his home, and the suspect answered, “bad intentions.”

And for those who act so afraid of ‘gun owners’; who would you rather have as a friend, neighbor or co-worker? The man with ‘bad intentions’ or the gun owner who exercised restraint in stopping a criminal?

Please join the discussion.

GRAND PRAIRIE – A Grand Prairie resident shot an intruder Tuesday afternoon while on the line with a 911 operator.

Around 2:30 p.m. the resident heard breaking glass at the rear of the home in the 2000 block of Clark Trail. He called 911, then went to get his gun.

The resident confronted the intruder, who had a knife. The resident shot the suspect, Gilberto Balderas, 21, while on the line with 911.

Another one of those defensive gun uses (DGU) the antis love to say “almost never happen”. Amazing how we can find them so often but the antis claim that the number of DGU are inflated.

Now we could list the cliches (brought a knife to a gun fight, when seconds count…, etc) but the truth of the matter is a person used a firearm to protect his home and probably himself — why would a burglar have a knife out if not to hurt someone, eh?

Of course the antis will say the home owner should have ran away (duty to retreat) but that defies common sense, doesn’t it?

Hi, I’m a Criminal. I’m here to rob you. Please leave your house so I can work in peace.

Wouldn’t that type of response actually encourage more crime?

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these types of incidences rarely occur:

Man with cancer, shotgun stops robbery

And also did you catch the point about one of the home invaders being a neighbor of the victim?
Yep, even took him on vacation; so how does he try to repay that kindness? By trying to rob the victim.

Nice.
Now what do you think would have happened had the homeowner not been armed; would the young thug walk away or possibly beat the homeowner or worse?

I don’t think a drug addict would walk away. So here is a probable case of a firearm STOPPING violence; definitely stopped a crime.

Please join the discussion.

…how video cameras stop crime?

DALLAS – Police are looking for a serial burglary suspect who was involved in several burglaries in the 9800 block of Lansdowne Drive.

The burglaries occurred on August 14 between 7:45 a.m. and 3:45 p.m

One Week AGO ! And just now the police are publishing his photograph and asking for help in finding the burglar.

So, please tell me again how video cameras stop crime and guns never solve anything?

Lawton_For the second time in just one week a shooting is ruled justified in connection with an attempted burglary.  This time it happened in Lawton’s Old Town North Addition in the 500 block of Bell.  The homeowner says he was asleep in the middle of the afternoon when he heard someone trying to break in.  He says his first reaction was to grab his gun to stop the would be burglar in his tracks.

This is a very separate case from Tuesday’s incident where the burglar was killed.  This would be burglar – who also happened to be a 17 year old boy – was not hit by gunfire.  He got lucky because he very well could have been killed – and the law would have allowed it

Go on…..I’ll wait Mr./Ms. Anti Right Cultist; I just won’t be holding my breathe waiting.