Armed restaurant worker stops a pair of robbers

[Bold Lib]

http://www.examiner.com/self-defense-in-national/armed-restaurant-worker-stops-a-pair-of-robbers

Police say that a pair of men entered the Peking Restaurant in Brideport, CT, intending to commit a robbery. During the course of the robbery, an employee drew and fired his lawfully owned gun in self defense, striking one of the robber and causing them both to flee, according to news reports. The robbers are said to have driven off in a car, only to crash the car a short distance away, at which point one suspect fled on foot. Police reportedly arrived to find one dead suspect, whose name has not yet been released, in the vehicle. No injuries to employees or customers of the restaurant were reported

Just another citizen exercising their 2nd amendments rights. No bystanders were injured either, ain't America great!

[old mark]

1. I'm glad no one else was hurt. I would certainly have this outcome than to have

people in the restaurant killed or injured by the robbers.


mark

[brendan120678]

2. Bridgeport is pretty much the cesspool of CT...

and saying that may be insulting to cesspools.

Most of the other larger cities in Connecticut...New Haven, Hartford, Stamford, Waterbury, etc...have bad areas, but there are plenty of nice, safe areas as well. Bridgeport has got to be close to 99% crime-riddled.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. I wonder where the robber got his gun.

Any theories?

[sharesunited]

5. From the gun factory. Period.

And bullets from the bullet factory. Period.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

6. No he didn't. Peroid.

You cannot buy firearms directly from any manufactures without an FFL authorizing you as a reseller of new firearms. The guy MUST have gotten the firearm secondhand, manufactured it himself, stolen it, or purchased it from a retail shop... the latter being highly unlikely because of both tracability and liklihood of prior criminal records.

Sharesunited, quit speaking out of your ass. Period.

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[proteus_lives]

17. Gun factory?

Bullet factory?

Are you five?

:rofl:

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[sharesunited]

4. This biased article carefully fails to mention if the robbers came armed with guns.

If so, then this is just another guns-as-solution-to-guns story.

For which precisely zero points can be awarded to the pro-gun viewpoint.

[mvccd1000]

7. Zero points to the pro-gun viewpoint.

But I'll give a big +1 to the anti-criminal viewpoint. One less of those to worry about...

[shadowrider]

23. And a big -1 to the criminals n/t

[Katya Mullethov]

27. Ok you wise guys , score this

Knives as an answer to flatulence .


BRISTOL, Conn. (AP)– A 21-year-old Bristol man told police he stabbed four people at a party Saturday night, one fatally, because partygoers were making fun of his flatulence.

Police say Marc Higgins left the party and returned with three knives, stabbing people indiscriminately, according to court documents released Tuesday.

The Hartford Courant, quoting those documents, reported that Higgins told police he was angry at being derided and wanted to teach people that they shouldn’t trifle with him.

Higgins appeared in court Tuesday charged with murder, assault and carrying a dangerous weapon, and was ordered held in lieu of $2 million bond.

Twenty-one-year-old Matthew Walton died of his injuries. The wounds suffered by the other three victims were not life threatening.

[shadowrider]

28. I've gotta hold my nose and pass on this one n/t

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

8. A successful defense with one dead thug and the other run off

beats any number of awarded points anyways.

So, in the end, who cares about SU's "points awarded"?
Fuck'em... don't need no stinkin' points.

[spin]

10. Your method of scoring points confuses me ...

If I interpret what you are saying correctly, you would award points to the pro-gun crowd if the robbers were unarmed and were shot by the employee?

[slackmaster]

11. Laugh laugh laugh

:rofl:

[rrneck]

12. Soooo,

do you really think the people actually involved in the event care what point you may or may not award? In fact, do you think anybody anywhere cares? Only one person cares and that's you. And I don't even care about that.

I do care that you, and not a few others, are willing to vote based on an ideology that means nothing to anyone but them. That sort of narcissism is ugly and unproductive for a civilized society.

Every post you write is an arrogant, uncivilized assault on common sense.

[Bold Lib]

13. What a load of bullshit you keep shoveling. Biased because ARMED robbers

were not called ARMED? Total bullshit. If anything the fact of the robbers being armed only demonstrates the false argument that an armed victim cannot defend against armed criminals.

[Bold Lib]

14. THIS would be biased: An oldie but a goody from the past at DU.

http://www.democraticunderground.com//discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x330300

LMAO!!! THAT was a good one.

Or how about the "law abiding gun owner" that wasn't so law abiding after all. . .
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x341401

[Hoopla Phil]

24. Oh jees, that's funny stuff right there.

[RamboLiberal]

15. Gee sharesunited don't you know about Google?

Less than a minute to answer your question.

According to a police press release, two suspects walked into the restaurant and ordered food, police said. When the cashier opened the register, one of the suspects pulled out a handgun and threatened the employees. The suspect, Allen Dixon, 21, of Bassick Avenue, reached over the counter and grabbed money from the register, police said.

Dixon then turned and pointed the gun toward the owner, who was sitting at a table, police said. The owner pulled out his own gun and fired one shot at Dixon, hitting him on his upper torso, they said.

http://articles.courant.com/2010-09-27/news/hc-bridgeport-restaurant-shooting-09220100927_1_armed-robber-restaurant-shot-bridgeport-police

[friendly_iconoclast]

16. That's unpossible. No one can get the drop on an armed robber like that

Or so some experts here have assured me...

[sharesunited]

19. Just as I expected, guns as solution to guns. Thanks for the missing detail.

[Bold Lib]

20. How about the apx. 2 MILLION defensive gun uses per year by law abiding citizens?

http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdguse.html

[jazzhound]

21. Copy/paste from another thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x341484#341783

[Pancho Sanza]

25. Maybe you can explain it to me

I've never knowingly met anyone who thinks the way you seem to...apparently more concerned about the welfare of criminals, thugs and gangbangers than about their victims, so I never had the face-to-face opportunity to explore how such a mindset originates and remains in place. There is obviously something responsible for it, I just can't deduce what it is, and how it operates...perhaps you can provide some insight...?
:-)

[oneshooter]

26. How are the talks with the Mexican and Canadian Army's going?

When can we expect them to come knock on our doors to confiscate our guns?

That is your Master Plan isn't it?

Oneshooter
Armed and Livin in Texas

[proteus_lives]

18. SU's kryptonite: Self-Defense.

How he hates it.

[Atypical Liberal]

29. Guns have been a solution to guns for over 600 years.

The simple fact is, man has used weapons to counter weapons for all of recorded history. Whether it was picking up a rock to counter another person with a rock, or picking up a sword to counter another person with a sword, or picking up a gun to counter another person with a gun, man has always used the tools at his disposal to help defend himself against attackers on more equal terms.

Oh, over the years there have been many attempts to limit the proliferation of weaponry. Back in 1139, the Pope banned crossbows. But as they say, the genie can never be put back in the bottle, and since the weapons have never been kept out of the hands of aggressors, it is simply ludicrous to deny people the means to defend themselves.

Guns have been a solution to other people with guns for over 600 years. They will continue to be for the foreseeable future.

[Hoyt]

30. Were the robbers armed?

[DonP]

31. Yes and they had their gun drawn already ntxt

[Hoyt]

32. If true -- good work employee. If you get a chance, I'd like to see a link.

Haven't posted with you before, but there are some on here who have no problem shooting someone running from you, stealing a plastic pink flamingo from your front lawn, or unarmed, etc.

But, I'd applaud someone shooting a robber who has a gun drawn on innocent folks.