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2006-09-09 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Wheelchair-bound NYC woman shoots mugger

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Posted by Captain America 2006-09-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hell on Wheels!

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-09-09 00:13|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2006-09-09 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 "You wanna chain? How'bout a leaden one...Bang bang bangetty bang!"

Posted by twobyfour 2006-09-09 00:31|| 2006-09-09 00:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Someone should have told this moron that all through history thieves have considered it extremely bad juju to steal from the blind or crippled.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-09 00:58|| 2006-09-09 00:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Following Deron's free emergency medical treatment and bond out:

Yo dog... tell us homeboys bout you sneakin up from beehind on dis hoe name of Margaret in a wheelchair.... and she unloads a magnum into your sorry ass.....hahahahhaaa.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-09 01:14|| 2006-09-09 01:14|| Front Page Top

#5 You go girl!

Posted by lotp 2006-09-09 10:32|| 2006-09-09 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 "Somebody tried to mug me, and I shot him."

Simple, straightforward, and just.

Minor nit: God forbid there should be a "next time," but if there is one, kill the fucker.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-09-09 11:01|| 2006-09-09 11:01|| Front Page Top

#7 What Dave D. said.

Posted by mac 2006-09-09 11:37|| 2006-09-09 11:37|| Front Page Top

#8 I doubt she could. He came at her from behind and she is wheelchair bound. She almost certainly had to shoot over her shoulder, maybe could turn a little but almost certainly couldn't lift her torso and turn to get a chest or head shot.

Still, a .357 magnum in the elbow should put a crimp in Deron's mugging habits for a good while if she was able to hit the joint itself.

Posted by lotp 2006-09-09 11:56|| 2006-09-09 11:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Two words: double tap

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-09-09 14:21|| 2006-09-09 14:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Two words: double tap

Once is never enough. Or, as the Vikings say;

"Too much is never too little."

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-09 17:04|| 2006-09-09 17:04|| Front Page Top

#11 NYC issued her a handgun permit -- REALLY hard to get in the city. But the laws on self defense do not favor the shooter (to put it mildly). The mugger did not have a weapon - shooting him again and possibly killing him would almost certainly land her in jail.

Posted by lotp 2006-09-09 17:38|| 2006-09-09 17:38|| Front Page Top

#12 What is it the Marines say -- 'if it's worth shooting once, it's worth shooting twice?'

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-09-09 21:21|| 2006-09-09 21:21|| Front Page Top

#13 lotp, most use of force laws, including NY's as far as I know, fall back on how the person was trained, and what would be considered a 'reasonable and prudent' use of deadly force. Any small arms defense instructor worth his salt (including myself) ALWAYS train the permit holder to double tap their target. The idea is to stop the attacker, and one shot is sometimes not enough. If you train someone to take two shots in rapid succession, center mass, it soon becomes instinctive. Any DA or court would recognize that double tapping is not an excessive use of deadly force, if deadly force was authorized, based on the reasons I described above. The side benefit of course, is that two shots makes the demise of assailant much more likely. I like the side benefit.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-09-09 21:26|| 2006-09-09 21:26|| Front Page Top

#14 Besides, lotp, it would be a jury trial. Given that, no one would prosecute.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-09-09 21:43|| 2006-09-09 21:43|| Front Page Top

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