So we have one story of a murder in Florida:
According to a report from The Florida Times-Union, police said a 22-year-old Florida woman has been arrested and charged with murder for allegedly shooting and killing her ex-boyfriend outside a Florida post office on Sunday.
Post Offices are Federal Buildings, so carrying a gun into the Post Office is a felony, meaning if the victim was armed, the gun was locked safely in his car at best. I wonder if the killer knew this or it was just a coincidence?
Now from Wisconsin where their newly minted concealed carry law is paying off:
Charlie Blackmore was driving home from work at 4:00 a.m. along Lincoln Avenue when he saw something on the sidewalk. Blackmore didn’t realize it was a woman on the ground being kicked in the head and stomach until he got closer.
That’s when he jumped out of his car and sprung into action.
“I said ‘stop’ and he starts coming towards me and that`s when I drew on him. He started getting closer and I said ‘get down on the ground,’” Blackmore said.
Blackmore held his gun on the suspect and called West Allis police. He says several times while waiting for police to arrive, the attacker moved toward him.
“I mean I’ve already made it up in mind that if he came at me I was going to have to take him down and I told him that. I warned him multiple times not to come towards me because he was a big guy and I wasn’t playing around and he didn’t seem like he was playing around,” Blackmore said.
Blackmore says police eventually showed up and had to force the suspect to the ground. They then asked to see Blackmore’s concealed carry permit.
Jay has more on the story. Also Jay’s pissed they demanded the carry permit from the intervening Marine. I’m fine with this, the Police are doing their job, and the Marine was carrying legally, and they only did this after the suspect was under arrest.
What I want to focus on is anti-freedom activists like Joan Peterson talked about how horrible Wisconsin is for allowing their citizens carrying guns. Note that Wisconsin did have open carry, but in cold weather, like it is now, open carry is VERY difficult.
The antis would rather this Marine have been unarmed in this intervention, because the safety of rapists is more important to them!
The cop wasn’t doing his job, open carry is legal in Wisconsin so unless he was hiding the gun no carry permit was necessary in that situation.
Good point! Granted I don’t expect cops to know every intricacy of the law…still they won’t extend the same courtesy to me….
The cops in West Allis should know that open carry is legal and no permit is required it hasn’t been long since the city paid out $30,000 to settle a law suit over the cops falsely arresting a guy for carrying openly. http://m.jsonline.com/138816959.htm