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1. Carrying and voting
2. Roanoke County considers shooting ordinance, but VCDL changes their minds
3. Northern Virginia “SWATTER” is under investigation
4. [LTE] Anti-gun letter Roanoke Times
5. [LTE] Another anti-gun letter Roanoke Times
6. MSNBC Poll on carrying in Kroger
7. Candidates don’t want to be seen with Gabby Giffords
8. Moms demand SWATting
9. Fox News connects Obama's gun safety policies to Oklahoma beheading [VIDEO]
10. A beheading in Oklahoma [VIDEO]
11. [OH] Kroger manager v. Moms Demand Action thugs
12. [TX] Man halts robbery, kills two suspects [VIDEO]
13. [TX] Son kills one of three home invaders in Texas, possibly saving eight lives
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1. Carrying and voting
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There is no law against carrying at a polling place in Virginia, WITH SOME IMPORTANT CAVEATS:
* You CANNOT carry where it is otherwise prohibited to carry by law, such as if you vote on school property or in a courthouse
* If you vote on private property, they can ban guns and you would be trespassing if you carry
* The Virginia State Board of Elections has a policy not allowing OPEN CARRY in those voting places where one can carry under normal conditions. The legality of that policy is a real question. The policy is based on the idea that open carry could be intimidating to some voters. The open carrier will be asked to remove the gun from the voting area. If they don’t comply right away, 911 will be called. Another reason we need to get state agency preemption passed
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2. Roanoke County considers shooting ordinance, but VCDL changes their minds
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Based on a single complaint, Roanoke County was looking to tighten restrictions on where a person can discharge their firearm or hunt on their property. The had a workshop on the idea a few days ago.
VCDL got one days notice on this thanks to some alert members. I couldn’t make it, but two of our Executive members, Ken Modica and John Wilburn, did attend and I asked John to represent the group for me.
I appreciate John and Ken being able to get to the meeting and speak out to protect the rights of gun owners in Roanoke County.
Here is John’s report:
VCDL learned that Roanoke County was considering amending their ordinance concerning discharge of firearms to prohibit shooting within 100 yards of an occupied dwelling. We were able to make the 3:00pm Board of Supervisors meeting straight from work, make a couple of quick impromptu comments with different angles to the board (to raise public awareness of the issue), and attend the workshop afterward. During the workshop, the supervisor who called for the workshop to study the issue, Mr. Peters, seemed to be somewhat satisfied once the county attorney explained that state law already adequately covers the issue of reckless handling of a firearm. The fact that Virginia is a Dillon Rule state was also mentioned, despite discharge restrictions being left to the counties.
Apparently, an anti who lives in the Catawba area is mad about someone shooting near his house and offered this solution. After the workshop, he was angrily yelling at County Attorney Paul Mahoney because none of the supervisors seemed interested in moving the issue forward. I’m sure yelling at the county attorney helped win sympathy for his case.
It came out in the meeting that Mr. Mahoney did, however, draft a ordinance with the proposed restriction a few years ago and send it to the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, demonstrating that he is at least indifferent to it going forward. The anti said to us after the meeting that “this isn’t over!” I believed him and hope he believed me when I told him that we’d be ready. Special thanks to Max Beyer and Susan Edwards for catching this last minute agenda item.
I and then Ken briefly speak at the 1:01:00 mark
http://www.roanokecountyva.gov/mediacenter.aspx?CID=4
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3. Northern Virginia “SWATTER” is under investigation
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Fairfax County police may yet decide to prosecute the person who “SWATTED” Robert Dicken.
http://bearingarms.com/fairfax-county-s ... stigation/
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Another article on the NoVA SWATTING case:
http://freebeacon.com/culture/northern- ... r-swatted/
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4. [LTE] Anti-gun letter Roanoke Times
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This and item #5 are both people moaning about CHP holders. Yet, for all their imagined problems, where are the problems with CHP holders in real life?
EM John Wilburn emailed me this:
By the way, Joe Ivers is on the Montgomery County school board and is a well known anti. He is the one who said, at a candidate forum, that any reference to firearms in the K-12 curriculum should be removed.
From roanoke.com: http://tinyurl.com/mhyhfpp
Letter: You don't have to know how to shoot a gun to get a concealed carry permit
by Joe Ivers
October 5, 2014
Re: C.E.Mahaney's letter ("Armed to protect, not intimidate") in the Sept. 28, Times referencing his corrections to Tilly Gokbudak's letter ("Olde Salem Days of the NRA," Sept. 21 Times):
Mahaney states "why licensed concealed carry members wear their handguns. We want to protect our family ... " and goes on to say that these people are trained and tested.
Absolute hogwash. Concealed handguns are now allowed in bars and coffee shops, just to name a couple of places. What does this have to do with protecting one's family? [PVC: Crime never happens in restaurants and stores? Obviously someone who rarely looks at the news.]
I love to hunt and fish as well as hike through the woods looking for mushrooms. So I do harvest what the outdoors has to offer. I have no problem with individuals owning tools to use to pursue these activities.
Having said that, I must say I do not own a handgun and don't remember ever shooting one. It is not a "tool" I would ever need.
After reading Mahaney's letter I decided to see if I could get a permit to own and conceal a handgun. Ready for the "training" and the test, I went online to start the process
I went to Virginia online Concealed Carry Certificate. I was supposed to watch a 41-minute video (which I didn't do) then take the test, which consisted of 11 questions. I missed three, but passed the test — with a 73 percent. I was to send in a check, then my certificate would be processed and I could pick it up at the county circuit clerk office.
My son who took the "course" called the circuit clerk and asked if his concealed carry license could be mailed to him, and was told yes. So, never having shot a handgun, being wrong 27 percent of the time, and not having to see anyone, I could be the proud owner of a concealed handgun permit.
This experience tells me that I should fear you and all handgun carriers as you should most definitely fear me if I were to have a handgun. [PVC: Interesting that above he is saying no one needs to carry in a coffeeshop, but yet he’s frightened of CHP holders who have an incredible record as being law-abiding people.]
Your leader, Wayne LaPierre, has stated that "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun." Really, that's crazy. I'm a good guy.
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5. [LTE] Another anti-gun letter Roanoke Times
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From roanoke.com: http://tinyurl.com/majlrg7
Letter: Take it from a Marine, online concealed-carry weapons permits require no training
by Charlie Self
October 5, 2014
I almost snickered when I read C.E. Mahaney's missive describing the rigors of obtaining a CCW permit in Virginia ("Armed to protect, not intimidate," Sept. 28 letter).
Using criteria pounded into me more than half a century ago at Parris Island, I checked some of the 20-buck-a-pop online licensing test samples. That finally elicited the snickers.
Training? Only in a Walter Mitty fantasy does prep for such a test count as training in weapons care and use.
One also has to wonder just what carting a .45 inside a jacket, or a purse, does to protect a family during a shopping trip. Even worse, and fairly intimidating in my opinion, is slinging something like an AR-15 over one's shoulder while checking the exercise equipment at Walmart and other stores.
This may reassure the person wearing the rifle or carrying the pistol, but I won't know that person, so I get no reassurance.
Given the appearance of many CCW lovers these days, I'd hate to push them away from exercise gear, but if I run across someone dressed in such a manner, I'll do two things: first, complain to the manager; second, get out of Dodge.
Regardless of Mahaney's opinion, I'm not hanging around where people unknown to me dandle weapons. I enjoy precision machinery, starting with cameras, going to cars, dancing with tools of many kinds, and including guns, but I try to keep my use of each within reasonable limits.
I don't have a dog in this hunt except for a desire for greater public safety. Mahaney may or may not have a less obvious interest, but the NRA and Wayne LaPierre surely do.
Oh, yeah. After I got out of the Marines, I went to two colleges, finally getting a BA in English. Of the dozens of teaching staff I met, I would not then, or now, consider arming one or more for student or staff protection. The needs are too different.
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6. MSNBC Poll on carrying in Kroger
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63% (59,000 votes) says “YES - gun owners should be allowed to carry in Kroger.” And that was on the MSNBC web site! Moms Demand Action is NOT going to be happy (well, they never are anyhow).
From msnbc.com: http://tinyurl.com/p2euztk
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7. Candidates don’t want to be seen with Gabby Giffords
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As more and more people are becoming gun owners and realizing the importance of self-defense, the antis aren't getting any traction.
From newsinfoenquirer.net: http://tinyurl.com/mdb6fz5
Gun control barely an issue as US elections near
Associated Press 6:40 AM | Thursday, October 30th, 2014
SEATTLE — The latest U.S. school shooting claimed the lives of two students and the teenage shooter less than two weeks before congressional and statewide elections. It barely made a ripple in the final days of campaigning.
Candidates nationwide have largely ignored the issue of gun control ahead of the Nov. 4 election. Democrats facing an uphill battle to save their Senate majority from a Republican takeover have been unwilling to take up a divisive matter that could alienate many voters.
Nobody knows this better than Gabby Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who has become a leading gun control activist since she was shot in the head at a political event four years ago.
Not a single candidate in the midterm elections appeared with Giffords as she made her way from Maine to Washington state over 10 days to advocate for tougher laws.
“If this happened in March or December or any other time, we’d have asked other politicians to join,” said Marti Anderson, an Iowa state lawmaker who helped organize a Giffords event in Des Moines, Iowa. “But it’s risky 15 days before an election.”
It’s a far cry from the atmosphere following the December 2012 massacre of 20 children and six educators at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. In the outpouring of shock and outrage that followed, pro-gun control politicians and activists had hoped the time was right for stricter laws. But months later, President Barack Obama failed to push through Congress a plan for broader background checks for gun purchases, along with proposals for a ban on military-style assault rifles and limits on ammunition capacity.
Since then, there have been numerous shootings at schools and other public places but gun control proponents have been unable to regain any momentum.
Americans are deeply split on the issue of gun ownership. Some, especially in urban areas, favor strict laws similar to those in many European countries. On the other end of the spectrum, gun rights advocates argue shootings only prove the need for law-abiding citizens to own firearms to protect themselves, including teachers in schools. Restricting gun ownership is a complicated legal matter because of the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which gives citizens the right to own firearms.
Gifford’s latest appearance was in Seattle, just two days before a 15-year-old high school student shot and killed two people and himself in an attack north of the city.
Giffords, who struggles with speech, stumbled as she delivered the same 64-word speech she had made eight times on her tour.
“Together, we can win elections,” Giffords said before starting to stumble. After a moment of confused silence, an aide whispers the next line, and Giffords continued the broken sentence: “… change our laws.”
As Giffords visited nine states in the past two weeks, the country’s most powerful pro-gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, was working in at least 30, with advertising and get-out-the-vote manpower, to strengthen its position in Washington and state capitals. She will be widely outspent this year by the NRA and others who support the rights of gun owners.
With the Senate majority at stake, Giffords isn’t running television ads in states where Democratic incumbents are seeking re-election, among them North Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Hampshire.
“Long, hard haul,” Giffords told The Associated Press in a brief interview after her Seattle event, using one of the short phrases that now dominate her speech.
The exception is Iowa, where her group announced plans this week to run television ads against Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst. “Joni Ernst won’t vote to close the loophole that lets some dangerous people still get guns,” Story County Sheriff Paul Fitzgerald says in the ad set to run through Election Day.
The NRA has spent more than $27.3 million this year on elections in at least 27 states through Oct. 15, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Giffords’ organization, by contrast, has spent just $6.6 million in seven states.
The financial advantage is just one piece of the NRA’s strength.
“Anyone who tries to gauge the National Rifle Association by money alone is making a huge mistake,” said NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam, citing 5 million dues-paying members and many more voters who look to his organization for guidance on how to vote on Election Day.
Arulanandam said he’s grateful that Giffords is “on the mend and getting better every day,” but he criticized her political goals, saying she is ultimately after “draconian gun control.”
Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, have gone to great lengths to rebut such criticism. Recently, with little sign that an effort to adopt universal background checks will pass in Congress, Giffords has focused on promoting a measure that would prevent convicted stalkers and abusive “dating partners” from accessing guns.
In a letter opposing the measure, the NRA says it “manipulates emotionally compelling issues such as ‘domestic violence’ and ‘stalking’ simply to cast as wide a net as possible for federal firearm prohibitions.”
While the mood was largely positive during Giffords’ tour, the frustration they’re not connecting with voters this election season was evident.
“It’s hard not to be, as a person in this country, disappointed by the lack of response,” Carusone said. “But we’re not surprised. We knew this wouldn’t be easy.”
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8. Moms demand SWATting
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Member Dale Hawley emailed me this:
Finally, someone is looking at all the terroristic threats the anti-rights types keep making towards gun owners.
From nationalreview.com: http://tinyurl.com/qylr8pe
Moms Demand SWATting
A disturbing trend on the gringes of the gun-control movement
By Charles C.W. Cooke
October 2, 2014
‘You see a GunFilth waving its penis substitute, exit, call police. Armed robbery in progress.” So wrote Twitter user “Little Black Dog” on September 13 of this year.
The injunction was a particularly colorful one, but the idea behind it, alas, is not as uncommon as one might wish. “I see you #opencarry with a gun in public,” a man named “joe villa” threatened earlier this week, “i’m calling the cops. psycho behaving erratic. make your day.” A translation for the more literate among us: “The law be damned; exercise your rights under the law and I’ll threaten your life.”
“Take a look through the comments threads on Moms Demand Action’s Facebook page,” Bearing Arms’s Bob Owens tells me, “and you’ll see a lot of this.” “Not,” he clarifies,
from the leaders of the group. But it is a mindset popular among the followers. On there, on the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence — ironically — and on GunFreeZone.net, you’ll notice commenters advocating that people call the police and exaggerate what is going on, hoping to get the cops to come in.
A cursory trawl through those sites reveals that Owens is correct in his assessment. The lion’s share of the commenters are innocuous and cordial — nothing more than law-abiding Americans participating in civil society. There are peaceful promises not to shop at Target or Kroger or Chili’s unless those businesses explicitly prohibit customers from bringing their firearms in with them; there are vehement-but-idle suggestions that anybody who wishes to carry a gun in public must have something seriously wrong with him; and there are the usual ignorant claims that shootings in America are on the increase (in fact, the opposite is true). But, every 20 comments or so, one sees exactly what Owens describes. Reacting to a photograph of a man standing at a checkout with a handgun holstered upon his hip, mom-who-demands-action Joyce Ward asks, “Why weren’t the police called immediately?” And “why,” Ward continues, “wasn’t he shot by the police for having a weapon”? Fellow poster Lisa McLogan Shaheen has a similar inquiry, wondering, “Why hasn’t someone called 911 so the cops can gun him down?” Others go a little further, proposing that they might help their cause along if they were actively to bring about an altercation. “Every time I see someone with a gun in a store I will call 911,” Jennifer Decker vows, “they’ll get tired of that right quick!!!” Even that plan is too limited for Ann Marie. “Just call the police every time you see someone with one,” she counsels, “the police will get sick of it eventually or have a run in with one of these clowns and then things will change.”
In almost every such comment, it is also asserted regretfully that there is an ugly double-standard at play in America’s thriving gun culture. “If he were black,” one Wayne Senftner laments, “some frantic white woman would call 911 and the cops would murder him on sight like in ohios wallmart [sic] killing of the black man holding a toy air rifle.” Presumably, Senftner cannot see how peculiar this statement looks to outsiders, nestled as it is among the hysterical output of “frantic white women” who are recommending that others do just that. Naturally, one shouldn’t let facts get in the way of a good whine. But what happened to Crawford should serve as a warning to the malcontents, not as an encouragement. The “black man holding a toy air rifle” to whom Senftner refers was named John Crawford III, and he was killed because, to borrow a phrase from Lisa McLogan Shaheen, a fellow shopper “called 911 so the cops could gun him down.” “If you sync the phone call to the footage,” Bob Owens tells me, “you’ll notice that Ronald Ritchie, the caller, makes claims that are not true.” Among those claims, the Guardian records, were that “Crawford was pointing the air rifle at customers,” that he threatened “two children,” and that he was recklessly “waving it around.” This does not appear to have been the case. Indeed, when the lattermost statement was made, Owens notes, “the gun’s muzzle was pointed to the ground.” So pronounced are the discrepancies between Ritchie’s story and the surveillance footage that John Crawford’s family is hoping to take legal action. “He’s basically lying with the dispatchers,” the family’s attorney, Michael Wright argues. “He’s making up the story. So should he be prosecuted? Yes, I believe so.”
Which is to say that, whether or not the allegedly well-intentioned reformers of Moms Demand Action and GunFreeZone.net are aware of it, they are flirting with disaster. On the surface, Ann Marie’s grubby little hope that police will eventually “have a run in with one of these clowns” may appear to be less threatening than was Ronald Ritchie’s fatal mendacity. But, if Marie were successful, the end result would likely be the same. There is no kind way of putting this, I’m afraid: Ultimately, what we are seeing on the fringes of the gun-control movement is the suggestion that American citizens be “SWATted” for their choices — that, in the name of a political disagreement, one party calls the cops on another and, under false pretenses, puts them in harm’s way. Is this reconcilable with “common sense” change?
“You’re putting the police in a situation where to the best of their knowledge the call is coming from inside the house,” Owens explains. “In the worst case, the perpetrator will say, ‘I’ve killed my wife and kids; come get me if you can.’” In other instances, he will exaggerate or twist the truth to lure authorities into a situation that is not at all as it has been described. In all cases, however, the intention is the same: To harm or to scare the target. Real-world examples abound. Sometimes, as in the cases of conservative activists Erick Erickson and Aaron Worthing, attacks have been contrived by those seeking political or legal revenge. At other times, they have been ordered purely as entertainment. (Earlier this year, a video-gamer who was streaming himself playing Counter Strike was SWATted by a jealous opponent. The incident, which was filmed, makes rough viewing: One moment, the player is enjoying his game; the next, he is being thrown to the ground by armed officers, their guns drawn.)
It is the high-profile cases that make the news — especially when the motive is explicitly political. But, for all the drama that the targeting of celebrities invites, it is difficult to imagine why an ostensibly distressed call from a grocery store would in practice have different consequences than a call reporting a reputed murder. If, as “Little Black Dog” and “joe villa” have proposed, a cop receives a complaint of an “armed robbery in progress” or an armed “psycho behaving erratic,” his response is likely to be severe. (Indeed, those who doubt that law enforcement treats every report with pronounced seriousness and an excess of caution might consider reading up on the typical response to proclaimed school shootings.)
The open-carry movement can at times be needlessly provocative, unforgivably impolite, and depressingly counter-productive. Mom’s Demand Action’s mawkish and narcissistic hoplophobia to one side, I share the concern of those who feel that some advocates of the right to bear arms have traded justifiable concern regarding the integrity of their rights for gratuitousness, confrontation, and vanity. Nevertheless, there are constructive and there are disastrous ways of establishing social and legal bright lines, and the proposals that are simmering around the gun-control movement’s fringes fall decidedly into the latter camp. Having been widely chastised for their stupidity, both “Little Black Dog” and “joe villa” removed their boorish warnings and slunk, chastened, back into their festering holes. Their friendlier allies at MDA and beyond would do well to follow suit, politely advising the hotheads that this really isn’t a game.
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9. Fox News connects Obama's gun safety policies to Oklahoma beheading [VIDEO]
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Member Rick Evans emailed me this:
I would have preferred "If more law-abiding citizens were armed" to "If more people were legally armed" (because it's an unalienable right, not a legislatied right), but, at this point, I'll take any positive 2A comments in the media.
From www.youtube.com: http://tinyurl.com/mybxr4p
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10. A beheading in Oklahoma [VIDEO]
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Member Rick Evans emailed me this:
This is an excellent video by Bill Whittle (one of many by him) that discusses self defense in the face of violence - using the beheading in Oklahoma as an example. The whole thing is right on the money, and I particularly like the question he asks at 2:57 in the video: "So, the question we'd better start asking is not whether or not you have the right to defend yourself, but rather whether you have an obligation to defend yourself."
From www.youtube.com: http://tinyurl.com/o27ytsv
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11. [OH] Kroger manager v. Moms Demand Action thugs
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From www.truthrevolt.org http://tinyurl.com/l8croge
Kroger Manager v. Moms Demand Action Thugs
"Which store? I'd like to shake her hand, and buy her a beer."
by Yehuda Remer
October 7, 2014
Chalk up another point for Kroger in the ongoing battle between the mega grocery chain and Shannon Watts’ Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
A photo sent out by Watts on her twitter account shows a manager of an Ohio Kroger’s refusing to sign a petition by two MDA thugs.
.@Kroger mngr in #Ohio refuses to take @MomsDemand petition signatures to stop open carry #GroceriesNotGuns #gunsense pic.twitter.com/N15B7EC98u
— Shannon (@shannonrwatts) October 5, 2014
People on Twitter quickly gave Watts a earful showing their support for the Ohio manager.
@shannonrwatts I commend @Kroger for not kicking their asses all the way to the curb as they deserved. @MomsDemand #gunsense
— TeaStainedTusks (@LeftyLemn) October 5, 2014
.@Kroger mngr in #Ohio refuses to take @MomsDemand petition signatures to stop open carry #GroceriesNotGuns #gunsense pic.twitter.com/N15B7EC98u
— Shannon (@shannonrwatts) October 5, 2014
Which store? I'd like to shake her hand, and buy her a beer. @tazcat2011 @shannonrwatts @kroger @MomsDemand #gunsense
— Inglorius Batard (@KentAtwater4) October 5, 2014
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12. [TX] Man halts robbery, kills two suspects [VIDEO]
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Member Walter Jackson emailed me this:
From khou.com: http://tinyurl.com/n6lhqch
Man halts robbery, kills two suspects
By Alice Barr, KHOU
October 4, 2014
Four suspects entered EJ's Place demanding money
HOUSTON -- Just after closing around 2:30 Saturday morning, four armed men barged in at EJ's Place demanding money.
Instead, a customer inside the bar, which is located on the 16500 block of Kuykendahl Road, pulled out his gun and started exchanging fire with the robbers. He shot and killed two of them while the other two ran. Once the heated exchange ended, the patron left, too.
"We're still trying to determine who he is, and why he left the scene," said Harris County Sheriff's Sgt. Robert Spurgeon.
Harris County Sheriff's deputies are looking into whether the same robbers held up a gas station on Cypresswood earlier in the night.
Most folks driving by EJ's Place Saturday afternoon thought the patron there was in the right.
"He has his right to protect himself and his family and his friends," said Charles Webb. "It's just unfortunate something like that happened."
Another neighbor, Danielle Russell, added, "Being a mom, yeah, I would feel safe knowing that he has a gun and he's going to protect me in a robbery."
But a sign in the bar window clearly states it's a felony to carry a gun inside. Under Texas law, even licensed carriers can't have guns in bars. That could explain why the patron left.
"Everybody in there is just a happy and nice atmosphere and everybody's real pleasant," said Webb. "I can't imagine that happening there."
Another longtime customer said that the patron who killed the robbers always stays until closing to walk the female bartenders to their cars. The friend said the man would never start anything, but would always protect his friends.
"It's sad. It's unfortunate that we live in that type of world," said Webb.
Investigators say the robbers didn't actually steal anything before the shooting happened.
They are still searching for the two robbers who got away, and looking for connections to any other crimes.
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13. [TX] Son kills one of three home invaders in Texas, possibly saving eight lives
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Member Clayton Rhoades emailed me this:
From bearingarms.com: http://tinyurl.com/mxb7nl6
Son Kills one of three home invaders in Texas, possibly saving eight lives
By Bob Owens
October 3, 2014
An adult son woke in Harris County Texas, this morning to the sound of his mother’s voice pleading with three armed intruders for the lives of the three young girls in the kitchen with her. He grabbed a firearm that he kept near his bed and did what he had to do to save his family:
Family members told deputies that their mother was in the kitchen cooking breakfast with three young granddaughters when the armed men broke in. The woman’s adult son heard the commotion from his bedroom and grabbed his gun.
“… and when he heard ‘please don’t hurt the girls,’ that’s when he took action,” deputies said.
The son wasted no time in shooting and killing one of the suspects.
“They were basically at a standoff, and he discharged first,” said Sgt. Felipe Rivera with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. “One of the suspects did fire inside the residence.”
There were eight people—seven family members and an employee of the family’s construction business—inside the home during the home invasion, and eight potential victims. All eight are alive today because of the adult son’s decision to fire upon the home invaders with his gun.
One of the suspects was dead at the scene, and the two surviving criminals fled.
All eight people inside the home are shaken, but not physically harmed.
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