{"id":49348,"date":"2015-01-23T20:19:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T03:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/the-only-way-to-stop-a-bad-guy-with-a-gun-is-oh-wait.html"},"modified":"2015-01-23T20:19:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T03:19:40","slug":"the-only-way-to-stop-a-bad-guy-with-a-gun-is-oh-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/the-only-way-to-stop-a-bad-guy-with-a-gun-is-oh-wait.html","title":{"rendered":"The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is &#8230; oh, wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guy A in parking lot sees Guy B getting out of his car and putting a gun under his jacket. Upon their entering Walmart, Guy A tackles Guy B, shouting that Guy B has a gun. Despite Guy B yelling back that he has a permit, Guys C and D run over and help Guy A, who puts a choke hold on Guy B restrain him &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; until the police arrive and determine that, by cracky, Guy B <i>does<\/i> have a concealed carry permit.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, would you be surprised to find out that Guy B is black, and Guys A, C, and D are all white?<\/p>\n<p>I suppose we should probably count ourselves luck that Guy A wasn&#39;t also toting a gun. Or that Guy B didn&#39;t feel in fear of his life and manage to get a shot off.<\/p>\n<p>Guy A is charged with assault, which is a mild surprise, though I&#39;d not at all be shocked to find out he gets off with a slap on the wrist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mixed-media\/2015\/01\/black-man-gun-permit-walmart-florida-vigilante'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/u0rtWb5khqA-VpU7LLrh69w4QS2tCwmOvvGAy6r09Lxdpnb_1fTZf37fP2_TJlNlBhOpxK-RPIALOg=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mixed-media\/2015\/01\/black-man-gun-permit-walmart-florida-vigilante'>Black man lawfully carrying gun gets pummeled by white vigilante at Walmart<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFlorida&#8217;s vigilante spirit, once again in action.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/j4foaYb4tXX'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy A in parking lot sees Guy B getting out of his car and putting a gun under his jacket. Upon their entering Walmart, Guy A tackles Guy B, shouting that Guy B has a gun. Despite Guy B yelling back that he has a permit, Guys C and D run over and help Guy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/the-only-way-to-stop-a-bad-guy-with-a-gun-is-oh-wait.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is &#8230; oh, wait&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137452,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/12\/dont-be-the-good-guy-with-a-gun-to-stop-the-bad-guy-with-a-gun-if-youre-black.html","url_meta":{"origin":49348,"position":0},"title":"Don&#039;t be the good guy with a gun to stop the bad guy with a gun &#8230; if you&#039;re black","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 12-Nov-18 1:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"After exchanging fire with and subduing a man with a gun at a bar where he was the security guard, Jemel Roberson was himself shot and killed by a police officer responding to the scene. 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