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Originally Posted by buggyone
I called the article a piece of ridiculousness with the talk of sheep and sheepdogs. Let the trained police officers do their jobs.
In the article about the robbery, it states the man with a 9mm pistol fired six or seven times from about 20 feet away and hit the robber twice - including in the forehead. Where did the other 4 or 5 bullets go? How does someone flee alone after being shot in the forehead with a 9mm? Personally, I would not want some civilian pumping 6 or 7 bullets in a crowded supermarket during a holdup. Would a trained police officer do that?
What does an article about Milwaukee have to do with The Villages? Nothing.
What about the alleged claim of 6 per 100,000 per year murders? I have not seen 24 murders in The Villages in the 4 years I have lived here. What about the claim of 4 per 1000 aggravated assaults per year? I have not seen 16,000 in the 4 years.
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That does seem like a bad example of someone using a concealed weapon to stop a crime in progress. I am all for people with a lot of training having concealed weapons-- especially those who have had some experience being fired upon in real life situations and are not hotheads-- but when someone looks more like a Keystone cop than a retired cop....
There has been one murder and a number of suicides by gun while I have been here over the past nine years or so. I do remember a man shooting up a mail station because of some argument between his mother and her boyfriend. That was quite a long time ago.