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Originally Posted by buggyone
Ah yes, the Sheepdogs are going to be protecting all of us stupid sheep. I found this article one piece of ridiculousness.
The ones who have their concealed carry permits are remiss in their civic duties if they do not carry a pistol everytime they venture into the streets of The Villages is going too far overboard.
I will concede that law enforcement officers need to be armed. Not retired law enforcement officers, but ones on active duty and even off duty.
The Villages is one of the safest places you can live. Naturally, I will see the comeback that the bad guys know so many Villagers pack heat and therefore are scared to come here. More ridiculousness!
If the murder rate mentioned by the author is 6 per 100,000, The Villages should be having at least 6 murders per year. How many years has it been since a murder took place?
We thank you for your duty as a law enforcement officer but you have now retired. Leave it to the active duty law enforcement officers and play golf and relax in this wonderful community.
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I'm pretty sure nobody called it "ridiculousness" when this Milwaukee man, shopping at Aldi Supermarket intervened with his concealed weapon to shoot a robber who was
waving a shotgun at the cashier and then at the concealed-carry weapon holder.
A lunatic like this can show up ANYWHERE. And if one does, I sure hope a CCW holder like Mr. Al-Mujaahid is right there to take him down!
"The Aldi customer who shot an armed robber in the store Monday won't face any criminal charges, prosecutors confirmed Friday.
Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm said the law allows use of reasonable force in threatening situations, regardless of whether the shooter has a concealed-weapons permit, which the customer did......
.......At a news conference Friday, Al-Mujaahid said he and his wife stopped at the (Aldi) store, 7601 W. Fond du Lac Ave., for some last-minute dinner items. They'd never shopped there before, he said.
As they were in line to check out, he noticed the suspect pointing a shotgun at a cashier, demanding money in a very agitated way. He said he feared for the safety of himself and others so he unholstered his semiautomatic 9mm Steyr handgun, cocked it and kept it down at his side as he motioned another customer behind the robber to move away.
"It was surreal," he said.
When the robber turned the shotgun toward him, Al-Mujaahid said, he fired six or seven shots from about 20 feet away. He said he hit the suspect in the leg and forehead. The robber then dropped the shotgun and bag of money, and fled the store. Police later arrested Dierre Cotton, 20, and Edyon Hibbler, 19, who were charged late Friday with the robbery and two other holdups on the city's northwest side.
According to the complaint, Cotton's gun wasn't loaded; he thought it would just scare cashiers into giving up money more quickly.
Over in 30 seconds
Al-Mujaahid estimated 30 seconds elapsed from the time he first noticed the robber to the time he shot him. He said he knew from his recent training that you need to breathe, keep a clear head, and "commit to a decision......"
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Aldi customer won't be charged in shooting