Guns Save Life

Two 17-year-old hoodlums tried to hold up a convenience store, thinking they would profit from other people’s hard work.

It didn’t work out so well for them as the clerk, unbeknownst to them, had a concealed carry license and knew how to use his gun to perforate the rifle-wielding half of the dynamic duo.

Sadly, the wounds were not fatal.

Mark Manson writes a piece on the latest spree killer.  He offers up some interesting points, but the best paragraph, hands down, is this one:

For a country that is so single-mindedly obsessed with terrorism, it’s jaw-dropping that almost nobody recognizes that school shooters use the exact same strategies to disseminate fear and their twisted agendas throughout society. Terrorists use violence and mass media coverage to promote political or religious beliefs; school shooters use violence and mass media coverage to promote their personal grievances and glorification.

That’s a dead body.  Right underneath a “NO GUNS” sign over the door.

Criminals apparently didn’t care if their was a “NO GUNS” sign around or not.  It’s not like a felon committing a felony carrying a gun is going to care about some silly sign, right?

Just in case you think that’s an isolated incident, check this out:

Yeah, that’s an investigation of another shooting.

Funny how bad guys ignore those signs.

From Second City Cop:

Two young thugs took a liking to a man’s Mercedes and thought they would expropriate it – and the owner’s wallet – for their own amusement.

Their plans went badly awry when they suffered a sudden and profound error in their victim selection process in that their victim was an armed ex-cop, according to a story in the New York Post.

Thug #1, Manuel Ocampo, 20, took a round to the face at close range.   Ouch.  That had to hurt.

Police found Ocampo’s gun still in his hand when they arrived.  Paramedics tried to save the oxygen thief’s life, but failed.

Ocampo’s 18-year-old partner was caught moments later.

Imagine if Rahm had proposed these restrictions on book stores?  Would it pass muster?

Or churches?

CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed an ordinance that would largely limit where gun stores could open in Chicago.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports Monday that the proposed ordinance would use special-use zoning to keep gun shops out of 99.5 percent of Chicago. Stores couldn’t be within 500 feet of a school or park.

A federal judge in January ruled that Chicago’s ban on gun stores was unconstitutional. The court gave the city until July 14 to approve gun store restrictions.

…Or are these thugs smart?

What’s it take to put up a new set of Burma-Shave style signs that spread the message of Guns Save Life?