Fun With Guns: Wait! Wait! I Am The Good Guy With a Gun! Edition
Okay, so a 21 year old guy in Oregon bought himself a fancy new gun and just couldn’t wait to show it off. So, he’s downtown at 2:10 am doing the open carry thing. Probably prancing. Well, I don’t know that for a fact, but that’s what open carry people seem to do.
He started talking to his cousin when he’s approached by a man who asked for a cigarette.
Talk eventually turned to the victim’s new purchase, before the robber pulled his own gun from his waistband and said, “I like your gun, give it to me,” according to police.
The victim handed over his gun and the suspect ran away.
Okay, which one do you figure was the good guy? I know for a fact which one was the stoopid guy.
I know crime is not funny. I know that. You don’t need to tell me that. But, y’all, this is Olympic quality funny.
Thanks to Sandy and Carl for the heads up.
The st00pid sure don’t keep us waiting long to fill the “what could go wrong” predictions.
Although not sure this qualifies as robbery, as it was a public service to keep the st00pid from shooting someone or himself.
1HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
2Poetic justice.
3Ya know, this just had to happen!!!
4I’m surprised — really! I mean you get a gun and carry it openly because you’re afraid of other people — especially strangers who might have guns. And then you let someone you don’t know get close enough to mooch a cigarette, casually engage in conversation about your gun but you never get suspicious because you’re such a good judge of character that you just know this person is ok. And then he pulls a GUN on you and wants YOUR gun and he doesn’t even offer to trade? There’s a word for that kind of person and it’s spelled L-O-S-E-R.
5Not-So-Quick Draw McGraw …
6Bravo. I’ve been waiting for a story like this ever since the idiots have been advocating for everyone to be able to open carry. When the “brave and cool looking” people just sling their guns over their shoulder or in the waist band of their pants, what’s to stop someone from just snatching your gun like they do with purses or wallets.
7Probably thought he was perfectly OK with strangers downtown at 2 AM because he had a gun. Like the fool who ended up in a knee-deep pool of icy slush because he had an SUV, while I drove past safely in my little hybrid. “I’m Superman now because I bought this!” is not a good mindset.
8Maybe, just maybe open carry will go out of favor for this very reason. Your gun’s better than mine, so hand it over as I point mine at your brain.
9Let’s assume the good guy with the gun was the one who was robbed. Then, what the NRA has been telling us is all wrong.
According to my math, and JJ readers please feel free to check my calculations, when a bad guy with 1 gun meets a good guy with 1 gun, that equals 2 guns for the bad guy, and no guns for the good guy.
This is an advantage in what way, Mr. NRA spokesperson?
10@Rick and maybe others:
11Not the first time in history this has happened. That’s why our open carrying forebears sometimes carried a second smaller hide out handgun inside a waistband or in a pocket. But yes, carrying openly has its own dramatic downsides. Another hypothetical: what if you are carrying openly and a bad guy swoops in and you don’t react. What are you? Indifferent? Coward? What?
The competitors for the Darwin Award run deep and st00pid. In a sane group of people, after the first person turned his nozzle into a sprayer, it probably wouldn’t happen again as the others would learn from his mistake.
What are we waiting for next from this cast of characters? Week1 st00pid shoots left pineapple; week2 ker-blaaam to the right. Rinse, repeat into week-infinity, when the next contestant places a loaded gun in his pocket.
Next moron relieved of his gun by a good Samaritan passing by with a gun should consider saying thank you.
12Proving once again that nothing much good ever happens after midnite.
13Based on this one incident,open carry must now become open season to prevent the bad guys from taking candy from ba….er…..taking guns from the good guys.
On the bright side,the next guy who bums a smoke will prolly die in a hail of lead. See-smoking is bad for your health.
14Micr, how about down right surprised as in surprise attack. In this case there was a modicum of “charm”. Us women are used to this kind of strategy.
15Coming up in the near future:
(a) robbers who kill first, and go through your pockets later
(b) Good guys who shoot first, then find out they shot another good guy.
(c) Cops who shoot first because they now assume everyone’s carrying…
16Micr-restrained is the word. Seriously,he didn’t want to have to use his gun. It was,afterall,new and now it is newly gone.
17This is my LMAO, feel-good story of the day.
It was bound to happened eventually so, naturally, I had my money on Texas being first.
Of course, we did get the Ebola virus first so, we still got that going for us; which is nice.
18Micr –
I had the Yancy Derringer Belt Buckle for that exact reason when I was a kid, so that I could always get the drop on my sisters. Just when they thought they had one over on me, I’d give the buckle a push, and pop, I’d shoot ’em, with special effects by Greenie Stickem Caps.
For some reason Sheriff Mom didn’t stand for that very long. Not on her turf anyway.
19@Rick:
20Nothing BUT Nothing surpasses the sticky cap as toy perfection. It took years and a ’65 Mustang with 104k miles on it to turn my head from such toy perfection. I wish sometimes I still had the Yancy Derriinger AND the ’65 Mustang. They are not incompatible.
Micr-
21You sir, are a man who knows well his cars & his toys.
I tip not only my black Zorro hat to you, but my white Lone Ranger hat as well!
Some crime IS funny. Bwahahahahahaha!
22I still watch the Lone Ranger every week day on tv. He and his messages and morals are more relevant today than back then and he still will not shoot to kill miscreants.
23I guess we all need this Roy Rogers Quick Trigger Shooter Hat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNWr9eF2Huk
24I remember watching Roy Rogers, but not that ad for the shooting hat. Thanks, Rhea, for the trip down memory lane.
25It led to the sad discovery that Roy’s beautiful palomino horse, Trigger, and his dog, Bullet, were stuffed and mounted and sold for $35,000 in 2010 at auction.
@Rick:
Those kindsa hats sound high dollar to me. I owned a series of red feltish cowboy hats with white lacing around the edge. Made me a stylish legend in my own 9 year old mind, yet economical to replace when the inevitable disaster occurred.
And BTW, the Sheriff Mom around my little home town put up with no guff as well. Dagnabit.
26Goodness has nothing to do with it.
27The plan never survives contact with the enemy. Even truer of fools who make it easy for the enemy.
And now a criminal has two guns, one of them undoubtedly better than the other.
28@Elizabeth:
29That’s the near gospel from my sainted father’s very own mouth! He said roughly “You best have plan “B” in yore pocket cause plan “A” wont survive but about 5 minutes of enemy contact.”
The bouquet of irony and stupidity is one to be savored.
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