"Good guy with a gun" opens fire on shoplifter.

[RandySF]

Auburn Hills — Police responding to a “shots fired” call at a Home Depot store said a customer apparently tried to stop a shoplifter by firing at a fleeing vehicle.

The incident occurred at 2 p.m. at the store on Joslyn, according to a police press release.

A 47- year-old Clarkston woman in the parking lot witnessed one of the store’s loss prevention officers trying to stop a shoplifting suspect getting into a dark colored SUV. The customer — identified as a concealed pistol license holder — reportedly fired shots at the dark-colored SUV as it sped out of the lot.

It’s unknown how many rounds were fired from her 9mm handgun, but police believe she hit and flattened one of the vehicle’s rear tires as it sped off in the direction of Brown Road.


http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2015/10/06/customer-fires-shoplifting-suspect-auburn-hills-home-depot/73467882/

[MrScorpio]

1. Bystanders are lucky that they weren't shot by this trigger happy nincompoop nt

[Kablooie]

2. And so it begins.

We could face an epidemic of imbeciles shooting their guns of all over the place to keep law and order.
and we'll certainly find a trail of innocent injured and dead in their wake.

[pinboy3niner]

3. God forbid a shoplifter get away without being executed

[Live and Learn]

4. Wanna be cops that couldn't even meet the low requirements and yet meet

the requirements to carry guns. Sad. And yet, some will applaud her efforts to kill someone (and risk bystanders lives) over a Home Depot theft. Even sadder yet.

[polly7]

5. This just makes me sad.

I wonder if she hesitated for one second to wonder if there was a child in the vehicle. I also just do not understand why a normal person would believe possibly killing a 'suspected' shoplifter/human being would be the right thing to do.