Grocers Outgun Armed Doofus

Looks like Drudgebart.tv.com is taking over the NRA’s “Armed Citizen” shtick. Today it links to a story about an incident in which the owner of a grocery store successfully drove off an armed nut.

According to the Palm Beach Post, AKA “The Shiny Sheet,” one Marshall Hugo Grant is alleged to have drawn his gun on a grocery manager during some sort of dispute. The manager and an assistant manager drew their pieces as well, and Grant chickened out and ran into the parking lot, firing as he went. The grocery guys convinced him to hand over his weapon, and they held him until the cops arrived. They didn’t have to fire a shot.

Hurray, hurray. Concealed carry works once again. Neither of the good guys was injured, and the alleged crook went to jail.

I can hear the whiners now. “But the problem was caused by concealed carry, because Grant had a gun.” Uh…NO. Grant was not a law-abiding citizen, carrying with a state-issued license. He was just an immature boob who went around with a gun in his pocket, for the sake of pushing people around and being a big man. How do I know this? Because he was charged with carrying a concealed weapon. This is an impossibility, if you have a permit. The store people were not charged, proving their guns were legal.

It’s a perfect example of how privately held guns are supposed to work. A criminal has a concealed weapon, and he uses it to commit a crime. A law-abiding permit holder surprises him with a legal firearm. The criminal loses.

If not for the armed manager and assistant manager, two or more innocent people might be dead today. Instead, the system scooped a troublemaker off the streets. Added bonus: every dirtbag in the vicinity of this store will know about the guns, and when they decide to rob business in order to buy drugs, they’ll cross this grocery off their list. And decent people will know it’s a relatively safe place to shop.

Concealed carry is a wonderful thing. Open carry would be better, but it seems like Sigmund Freud was involved in the drafting of our permit laws, because concealed is the rule. When you go about your business with a weapon at your disposal, you have tremendous peace of mind, because you know the odds that you will be harmed by a criminal are much, much lower than they ordinarily would be. You can’t use it to end arguments or to prevent people from being rude to you, as Mr. Grant should have known, but you stand a very good chance of preventing yourself and those around you from being injured, raped, robbed, or killed.

In self-defense situations, martial arts are a joke. The cops are slow. Pepper spray doesn’t work on drug addicts or people who are really angry. If begging worked, a lot of people who are now dead would still be alive. But the mere presence of a firearm can save lives. It happens every day, countless times, across America. Guns even save the lives of criminals, by discouraging them from engaging.

If you’re afraid to carry, you’re saying you trust a criminal to show mercy, more than you trust yourself to be responsible.

Does that make sense to you?

Gun-violence agitators should be happy, because Grant no longer has a gun, and in the future, he will not be allowed to own one. But if logic appealed to these folks, they wouldn’t be what they are.