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Store Owner Shoots and Kills Shoplifter Walking Out The Door
- Thread starter Barbwire
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Even if the shoplifter is stealing a GUN, a pistol that is obviously a WEAPON and not an item of sports equipment, you can't shoot him because of your speculation that maybe he has plans to use that weapon to hurt some other innocent person in the future.
If he's already tucked that weapon in his backpack and zipped up the compartment, or if he stole the gun IN THE BOX, and he's running out of the store with the plastic clamshell box plainly marked "GLOCK" in his hands, you STILL can't shoot him and say you did it to save innocent lives that he would have could have might have endangered later.
Until he brandishes it as a weapon, or other circumstances show that any REASONABLE PERSON would know he's about to use it, you have to consider that gun (or that machete, that axe, whatever) to be just an item of store inventory worth XYZ dollars.
(P.S. In Georgia, shoplifting a gun is always a FELONY. Any sort of stealing of a gun is a felony, regardless of dollar value. But shoplifting is not a "forcible felony." )
If he's already tucked that weapon in his backpack and zipped up the compartment, or if he stole the gun IN THE BOX, and he's running out of the store with the plastic clamshell box plainly marked "GLOCK" in his hands, you STILL can't shoot him and say you did it to save innocent lives that he would have could have might have endangered later.
Until he brandishes it as a weapon, or other circumstances show that any REASONABLE PERSON would know he's about to use it, you have to consider that gun (or that machete, that axe, whatever) to be just an item of store inventory worth XYZ dollars.
(P.S. In Georgia, shoplifting a gun is always a FELONY. Any sort of stealing of a gun is a felony, regardless of dollar value. But shoplifting is not a "forcible felony." )
Me: "Ummm... I forgot to replace my surveillance tapes last week"
I always try to advocate this fact. A gun is about DEESCALATION. Please be careful, y'all. The gun is meant to get you away, get them away, or get em dead. In that order.
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So a convicted felon, is out, committing another crime. That is pretty shocking.
I wonder if he had just pistol whipped the guy unconscious if that would have been OK. Probably not.
I wonder if he had just pistol whipped the guy unconscious if that would have been OK. Probably not.
ODT Inception strikes again.
I keep trying to squeeze out a few tears regarding this situation, but they just won't flow!
So what was the door blocking from view? Was the hatchet in the felons hand? Maybe we should wait till the investigation wraps up.
You got christineblaseyforditis
Wait and see what the autopsy says.. then we can go from there
