FranDoc Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Thought to be the first CCW shooting in Ohio. Article: http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/....xml&coll=2 Reader comments at: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/04/ca...1.html#comments If the above links are too lengthy, see www.cleveland.com. It's front page news today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidball Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 "Damon Wells is the man gun supporters were imagining when they fought for the right to carry concealed weapons. " Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 The comments sent in are interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-ManBart Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 "Gun supporters said the weapon saved Wells' life. Opponents said it took Buford's - that the 15-year-old might be alive if a citizen had not been armed." OMG....these people have to be from Pluto. The 15-year-old would still be alive if he hadn't illegally pulled a gun on someone. Let's see, he was only breaking two or three laws at the time he was killed....imagine that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjbine Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 It is amazing what the anti-gun crowd believe in. They have no common sense. They need to understand that Wells was acting against a 15 year old criminal that threatened his life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Keen Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 YES, it's a crying shame when an innocent *THIEF* is shot and killed while committing a crime. What is this world coming to ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micah Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 I've worked with 15 year olds that wouldn't think twice to stab their mother, let alone rob a stranger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSeevers Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 (edited) They are just boys. While OH is turning into a lib blue state. Cleveland is like the Mass and Cali of the Midwest. Edited April 25, 2007 by BSeevers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyin40 Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 I comments section is right on point Flyin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Pretty much sums up what I've always known: cities are run by and for the criminal class with Big Media as their minions. Pretty sad state of affairs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikiDale Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 I'm shocked, Shocked! at the insensitivity and hypocrisy expressed here. Don't even try to tell me when you watch one of those National Geographic, Animal Planet or NOVA specials about the predators in Africa you are not cheering the Lions and Tigers and Gators when they prey on the helpless herd animals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtm Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Okay the lion-tiger thing is to the point, as is the adoration of "lil" William Bonney A.K.A. Billy the Kid. He killed his first man at the age of 12....or so the story goes. Now we really can't find any but one that he actually did in, and he was a REALLY good cattle rustler ( cowboy really did mean cowBOY). I guess this kid in Cleavland should have stole cows, he might have become a folk hero like "Billy", cause after all a rustler in Cleavland would be UNIQUE!! Either way the guy who killed him, like Pat Garrett killed Billy, will also go down in history as a GOOD ONE, and that kind of LION is the kind we need in our pride. GOOD JOB! KurtM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miranda Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 hmmm, I am looking forward to the day when a Judge says "Son, I am putting you in Jail to protect you from the citizens who have Guns, One o' them WILL kill you if you don't learn to stop robbing them" I have strange daydreams, or so I'm told..... miranda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chills1994 Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 KURTM wrote: ...and that kind of LION is the kind we need in our pride. GOOD JOB!... Maybe I'm nit picking here, but I like the idea of a sheep dog defending the flock of sheep (sheeple?) versus the Lion analogy. I kinda get a chuckle out of it too when I think back to those Saturday morning cartoons I watched as a kid where the wolf or coyote and the sheep dog would go to work in the morning and clock in and then be the other's nemesis all day long and then clock out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Knight Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 (edited) Police took a .40-caliber Smith and Wesson firearm from Wells as evidence, the police report shows. Good thing he didn't use a 9mm! Those things are really dangerous!! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18246417/site/newsweek/ Edited April 25, 2007 by theknightoflight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racerba Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 (edited) another story Most of those gathering there are teenagers, and they are angry, shocked and sad. They say that no matter what police and court officials say, Buford never did anything wrong. They don't care that Cleveland prosecutors said the shooting appears to have happened in self-defense. They want justice. I believe that justice was served. Some sick society. Edited April 25, 2007 by racerba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinMike Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 In spite of the fact that he was trying to rob a guy at gun point, he was really a nice kid. One less thug on the streets, good riddance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry White Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 (edited) Thuging and robbing sometimes has a price( not often enough). I hope that punk had at least a few minutes to think about what he just tried to do and what happened to him. Hes gone and thats the part that counts.---------Larry Edited April 25, 2007 by lkytx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Thought to be the first CCW shooting in Ohio. Hmmmm...I recall a armed punk trying to rob a hotel on the east side of Columbus (video available on the www somewhere) and the clerk putting 3 rounds out of his G23 into the BG. I was thinking the clerk was CCW. Seems like it was a year or two ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Capizzo Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Police took a .40-caliber Smith and Wesson firearm from Wells as evidence, the police report shows. Good thing he didn't use a 9mm! Those things are really dangerous!! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18246417/site/newsweek/ The day of the tragic Virginia Tech shootings, NBC was showing a Beretta 9mm and explaining that the perpetrators gun was "capable of firing a bullet everytime the trigger was pulled". I guess thats opposed to a gun that was broken and won't fire when the trigger is pulled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Keen Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranDoc Posted April 27, 2007 Author Share Posted April 27, 2007 Update: http://www.cleveland.com/crime/plaindealer....xml&coll=2. Multiple links to related articles. Sad state of affairs. Fickle. Permit holder probably can't afford to live someplace where 'castle doctrine' is primary and the 'rights' of a teenage perp - ON PROBATION FOR A PRIOR ROBBERY - are seconday, at best. Correction: this is now thought to be the THIRD CCW shooting in OH, not the first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinMike Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 Absolutely sickening. Hard to comprehend a society that places the rights of criminals over the rights of law abiding citizens. Instead of being shocked and angered that a 15 year old is running around robbing people with a gun, people are shocked and angered that someone put a stop to it in self defense. What a twisted mindset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnhurd Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 Well the punks have driven him out and I bet they feel empowered, the LEOs (top of the chain) that have stood by are going to have their work cut out for them I suspect very soon. As I remember CCW was not very popular with many Ohio Criminal Justice entities and that wound is still fresh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 Well, you can take your pick; either shoot 'em when they are in the act, or arrest them and then use a tall oak tree and a short rope...about the same outcome, either way they get what they need.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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