Oh For Pete’s Sake
Chicago is where the good guys with a gun quickly become the scary damn guy with a gun.
The bad guy with a gun goes in to rob the AT&T store. The good guy with a gun sees it and keeps other people from going into the store. Some customers flag down a police officer.
Well, the sight of a police officer makes the good guy with a gun get testosterone overload and he fires a shot at the bad guy, who is fleeing. The police officer, who did not know about the good guy with a gun, immediately takes cover not knowing who is shooting at what.
The good guy with a gun, who has instantly become a bad guy with a gun, trying to act like Wyatt Earp or John Wayne, says he saw the guy escape and knew there was a police officer involved somewhere and that he was trying to protect the police officer. He’s just damn lucky the police officer did not return fire.
People who know what they are doing, took over.
Crestwood and Palos Heights police set up a perimeter along the Cal-Sag Canal and arrested the suspect as he ran from the woods, police said.
No injuries were reported.
Note to good guys with guns: You are not a cop. You are not trained to be a cop. Holster that sucker no mater how much you’re just craving to kill somebody.
Thanks to Rick for the heads up.
Note to all gun carrying “good” citizens: wear a T shirt before leaving home that reads “I’m the good guy with a gun”. I’m sure that will solve all problems in case the police get involved even in the smallest way with you.
1maggie –
I like your idea. If I might expand on it a little, I think the police officers across America would like it even better when a fracas broke out if they saw the bystanders wearing one that read:
“Good Guy With T-Shirt”
2Can you say VIGILANTE?????????????
3Back to the wild, wild, mid-WEST.
maryelle: Yeah, because the vigilante system worked so well…NOT
4Well, why can’t a woman wear a shirt saying GOOD GAL WITH A GUN? or better yet, GOOD GAL WITHOUT A GUN, TAKE YOUR GUN ELSEWHERE.
5Aaron R. Ybarra, another mass shooter, Seattle, WA was not taken out by “a good guy with a gun.” He was subdued by a smart student with pepper spray, Jon Meis.
Ammosexuals are cowards tending to shoot the wrong target, create confusion and are generally useless. Fearful morons toting guns are a danger to themselves and others. There is enough uncertainty with crime scenes in progress, this particular dufus, was extremely lucky that the responding police showed remarkable restraint and didn’t aerate his numb skull. Chicago, what a great venue to cause police confusion.
6Marge Wood, or a T-Shirt: “don’t make me release my boobs, ya gun toting boob.”
Like flash dancing, shopping could be fun, if women are ready to mock the ammosexuals with a show of their twin holsters.
7Ya beat me to it PKM; I want one that has check boxes-
Boobs Yes
8Gun No
Aggieland liz, a full range of T-Shirts for women and the men who love you. Mocking the silly ammosexuals is our best defense against their flat out st00pid.
OUCH! Jane just nixed my new shirt idea. It would have revealed her size versus their caliber. Let’s just leave it with she wins.
9How about: Brains Yes , Gun No.
You all are onto something…
10I guess the boobs jokie flew right by me. I was working on flying monkey jokes. I’m gonna stand down for a while.
11Another thing that made me sick…I will never be able to watch Tom Selleck act again. I have always thought deep down he was just too pretty to be anything like the characters he has played. I used to enjoy his Jesse Stone shows, not so much Blue Bloods. I felt that show was trying too hard to convince people the methods used by the police were just my imagination. He lays down with the likes of Nugent and the others on the board of the NRA. I went straight to my TiVo and cancelled my season pass already. I won’t even miss it.
12Kudos to the police officer who did not return fire and likely saved this foolish man’s life. Sometimes police get a bad rap–and too often they deserve it–but this officer acted like a professional good guy with a gun.
13There’s more on this incident in this later Chicago Trib article.
http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/545/article/p2p-80942147/
In a nutshell, conceal-carry is intended for self protection, not vigilantes. Someone needs to take away this 86-year-old’s gun and while they’re at it, perhaps his car keys, cane and walker. He showed rotten judgment and he’s proved he’s a public menace with a weapon.
14So Let me get this straight – we have an over burdened VA treating Vets for PTSD for the folks they have HAD to kill in times of war, and at the same time have a burgeoning population of “Good Guy” gun toters who purchase their weapons with the thought that they might GET to kill someone…Humor over this has left me….
15There is an unlimited earning potential here. Yes you could wear a T-shirt that proclaims you are the good guy with a gun but then a series of shirts – “I’m the good guy with a gun not him”, “I’m with stupid, the one with the gun”, or because people are really stupid someone will wear a shirt “good guy with a gun…I mean bad guy with a gun – fooled you” (that will be on his tombstone) or for Texans…”I’m a good guy with a gun…oops”.
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