Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forum(unarmed) Bar Harbor store owner recounts subduing gun-wielding robber
http://bangordailynews.com/2013/04/24/news/hancock/bar-harbor-store-owner-subdues-gun-wielding-robber/BAR HARBOR, Maine The owner of the Town Hill Market is cut and bruised but otherwise unharmed after wrestling with and subduing a man he said entered the store with a gun and demanded money Wednesday morning.
Richard Simis said two shots were fired from the would-be robbers pistol during the struggle but that no one was shot. After overpowering the man, Simis held him at knife point and flagged down a passing motorist who then called the police.
According to local police, the alleged robber is Chris Stevens, 39, of Millinocket. He has been arrested on a charge of robbery and taken to the Hancock County Jail. Other charges may be pending, police said.
The incident happened around 5:45 a.m. Wednesday as Simis was alone in the market about to open it up for the day. The business owner said he had turned on the stores ovens and lights and was standing at the cash register when the man came through the back door wearing a mask, hooded sweatshirt, latex gloves, and duct tape over his shoes and around his wrists. The man also had a roll of duct tape in one hand, he said.
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Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)jpak
(41,742 posts)and this is the perfect place for this...my Delicate Flower friend...
but given the number of media accounts of this vs number of defense gun uses, I would say his approach happens less often than defensive sword uses.
I'm glad it worked for him.
actslikeacarrot
(464 posts)...to subdue another person with a weapon. Glad it worked out for him. And those that aren't strong enough or fast enough to take on an attacker? Are they SOL?
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)Knives are killing machines.
Why not a can of beans?
kudzu22
(1,273 posts)that don't make it a good idea.
GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)Sometimes you can beat the house in Vegas.
But in both cases the odds are strongly against you.
sylvi
(813 posts)Some are parodies of themselves.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,470 posts)...to lead by example. Nietzsche said, "At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." I would add, "At other times, while the cause itself is reason enough, the weary, stale, flat and unprofitable arguments of the insipid are both sad and amusing.
Tuesday Afternoon
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ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)While the owner started off unarmed, he armed himself with a knife (deadly weapon) the first chance he got during the hand-to-hand combat. Not a bad choice since guns are more effective at distance.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)gejohnston
(17,502 posts)holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)... what if the gun-wielding robber had concealed a quantity of Kryptonite on his person?
Our heroic "less than gun-wielding" defender would have been powerless to stop him.
ileus
(15,396 posts)My life and the lives of my family aren't worth taking unnecessary chances.
Stay safe and carry on.