Yeah, But What If The Good Guy With A Gun Ain’t Real Bright
Of course this happened in Texas. Of damn course.
Last Saturday night, there was a carjacking at a gas station in north Houston. Two bad guys took another guy’s Chevrolet pickup truck. There were no guns involved until …
Police say a witness then pulled out a gun and began shooting at the suspects, accidentally hitting the carjacking victim in the head.
The damfool shot the victim. In the head.
Police say the witness who shot at the suspects picked up shell casings and left the scene. Police found the stolen pickup truck about a mile down the road but are still searching for the suspects.
Not only is the shooter dumb as bean dip, he’s also a real pathetic human being. He did not call for help for the victim he just shot. In the damn head.
The victim was transported to a nearby hospital where he remains in stable condition.
Thank God he’s also a real bad shot.
Please, please, if you harbor any thoughts of coming to my aid if someone is wrestling me, I would consider it a personal favor if you do not shoot me.
Lord, Lord, Lord.
(What my little ol’ country mama used to say when I did something really dumb.)
Still valid for other folks.
1This happened last September.
2@Cheryl I came here to say the same thing. “Wow, this sounds familiar…”
3This is very familiar. The date on the above link is September 27,2015. Good catch, Cheryl and Annabelle Lee.
4You can’t fix stupid. This is right up there with drowning some one in the baptismal pool.
5The only reason I checked the date is because I thought “Oh, surely not AGAIN”. Not that it is impossible.
6Yeah, it happened in 2015, but it could have happened yesterday. Welcome to America. Look at what we’ve become. Not pretty. Thanks, NRA!
7Did they ever find the shooter?
8Inquiring minds want to know.
This reminds me of those ammosexuals who boast about how they are ready to defend their homes and families in case of a home invasion. They too forget that bullets always end up somewhere.
What rational person wants a shoot-out inside their home? Walls generally aren’t going to stop bullets and presumably your family is somewhere nearby on the other side of that plywood.
One guy responded to my comment saying he would use bullets that wouldn’t go through walls (what, Nerf bullets?). No word on how he’d persuade the invaders to do likewise.
Too many John Wayne movies, too few brains.
9AR-15/M-16 bullets were designed to penetrate a steel army helmet from side to side. How would sheet rock stand a chance of stopping such a bullet?
They make bullets that explode on contact so the pieces don’t exit valuable varmint pelts.
10Ohhhh gosh
At the risk of being boooooed
From what I have heard and read, the USAr went from caliber .30 rounds, caliber .308/7.62mm and .30-06, as a logistical decision. That is they are bigger and weigh more (“soldier’s load”) and are not significantly better in combat than a smaller round. The Ruskies made a similar decision moving from the AK-47 to the AK-74. The Brits looked at rounds in the caliber .280 range, but eventually marched with the caliber 5.56mm NATO parade.
11@LynnN
I missed this on my first read and it is such a hi-larious comment on those who but whatever they buy to protect their home.
One of my neighbors kept a sawed off shotgun (his “SOS”) as his home protection. One evening he was certain he heard the front door being tried, so he sent his little bride to their bunker room with her mobile phone to call 9-1-1 while he engaged the would-be burglar in single combat. Hearing the door sounds again he fired the first of two rounds from his SOS into the door. The shock and concussion and blinding light caused him to “accidentally” fire off the second round, at approximately 45 degrees from horizontal. This annoyed the neighbors. The police arrived in aboot 4 minutes as did fire rescue. No burglar was killed. Or wounded. Or seen. State Farm most emphatically does not cover damage from such events. And as others pointed out buck shot at less than 2 meters distance will really f-up Sheetrock, as well as a leaded glass door and its framing.
12Ever hear of “survivor guilt”? Well, I guess there is something of that nature involved when some idiot with a gun decides he/she alone knows who’s right and or wrong and starts shooting. Call it “nutcake rescuer guilt.”
13“Not only is the shooter dumb as bean dip”
a lousy shot, but not stupid. he had the presence of mind to police his brass, making it that much more difficult for the police to track him down. my guess is a former military, with only the bare minimum small arms training necessary to keep his basic infantry rating.
I believe the rounds that shatter on contact are known as “frangibles”. they are specifically designed to do exactly that: 1. causing much more damage, due to the fragmentation effect., and 2. making it nearly impossible to trace the round back to the gun, and hence to its owner.
the guy with the shotgun for home protection is actually the smartest of the bunch, it is the most effect gun for actual home protection, assuming someone is actually trying to break in. a load of buckshot, at a few feet, will hit whatever is within a pretty wide radius in front of it. depending on distance, it will either kill them outright, or effectively disable them. much better then one of those very expensive AR-15’s, which require the shooter to actually aim the weapon, to have a chance of hitting someone. since the average “good guy with a gun” will be pissing in his pants if confronted by a real burglar, he has a better chance of shooting himself or a loved one, then he has of inflicting damage to the home invader. a baseball bat can also be very effective at close range.
of course, the safest method would be to lock yourselves in a strong room, and call 911. but doing the smart thing wouldn’t let you play Clint Eastwood.
14And how many people have a strong room that will withstand all the possible rounds thrown at you? And from which your cellphone will connect? The secure landline with a red phone attached is not standard household issue.
A shooter with a not-too-large caliber pistol defending against a burglar has been probably the most effective “good guy with gun” in the list of same, sometimes needing nothing more than pointing it at the bad guy. A man just out of town sent nighttime burglars running with one shot that didn’t hit anyone. Others have deterred with the sight of the gun (unarmed intruder) and others with ill-aimed shots that still scared the intruder away. In most cases there’s not a gun fight, just one or two shots and scared intruders taking off. Most of these homeowner good guys have not killed the intruder even if they hit one.
An exception is the Austin man who shot and killed an autistic man on a sub-freezing night–the autistic man had gotten out of his group home and was knocking on doors in a cul-de-sac and calling out. (Most likely the autist was confused, coudln’t find his way to the group home once out, and needed help.)
Other ways home intrusions have been driven off include cooking pots (old lady somewhere up north), SCA spear (Fort Worth area, IIRC), katana wielded by guy who slept naked (it was sharp, yes), bats, SCA mace wielded against gunman by sister of gunman’s target (shattered his femur), and other weapons both designed and improvised. In one bad neighborhood, with husband working night shifts, I used to keep a tire iron right under my side of the bed.
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