Crazy Gun Laws We Worried About Are Now in Our Collective Face

The Most Infamous Quote of All

When this more common scene

Becomes this Recent Scene

(back away from that item a-hole - I saw it first -)

From this national story from Daily Kos here, in part:

The woman who drew her pistol and opened fire at a Home Depot, as it turns out (and not surprisingly) was that she was not being personally threatened when she fired at the alleged shoplifter running from the store…!!

[My insert: no shit Sherlock] … Thousands if not millions of us who advocate of common sense gun rules knew something like would happen and it did and believe it: it will happen again – fear does sell and a gun makes one feel empowered to be a Rambo or citizen “cop” or whatever – they are not…

Police confirmed on Wednesday that a concealed pistol license (CPL) holder was not being threatened by a fleeing shoplifter when she decided to fire multiple shots at him in a Home Depot parking lot.

And experts interviewed Wednesday doubted the shooting could have been justified. [I might add: That might land her in jail and it should, or some very stiff penalty. What if some innocent bystander had been shot, or worse, shot and killed]?  

Here are a couple of choice bits from the reporting by the Detroit Free Press on this story:

1.  To use a concealed weapon in Michigan, a CPL holder needs to think that there is an imminent danger of death, great bodily harm or sexual assault, or think there is a similar danger to someone else, said Rick Ector, a firearms trainer who runs Legally Armed Detroit. He added that a gun is “truly a tool of last resort.”

2.  “In that situation personally, there’s no way I would be shooting my gun,” said another instructor, Dawn Martin, with the Kalamazoo-based Viper Security Enforcement Inc.

3.  “It’s my worst nightmare as a CPL instructor,” said Doreen Hankins, owner of Detroit Arms, which holds CPL classes. “You have to know the entire situation before you pull that handgun out.  I don’t see that a shoplifter at Home Depot fills any of those criteria.” 

Hankins, further said about the shooting and CPL holders, “None of it makes sense. Even if it were law enforcement, they wouldn’t do that. You are not a police officer. You are not a person out there protecting the public at large.” [I and millions agree and have raised this very concern and especially with more and more asinine right to open carry laws].

Imagine it were you running to your car after getting an emergency call and a shopper saw you running - and they shot you. A simple “Rick Perry oops” would not suffice – and that is my point.