January 11, 2003
SLOW LEARNERS:
Store owner delivers message after fatal shooting (SAEED AHMED, 1/10/03, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)The message might not have sunk in the first time J.C. Adams killed a man who tried to rob his convenience store.The 74-year-old store owner hopes it will this time:
"Go to work and make your own money. Quit trying to take mine."
In a virtual repeat of a scenario played out less than three years ago, Adams shot and killed an armed man Thursday night who allegedly tried to hold up the store Adams has owned for a quarter century.
At least he doesn't have to worry about recidivists. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 11, 2003 1:52 PM
It's a pity a guy like that would probably be tossed into jail over here in the UK.
Posted by: M Ali Choudhury at January 11, 2003 1:47 PMApparently he was wounded the first time he was robbed. He had a .38 pistol then, shot at the robber and missed. He said about that, "you can't hit anything with a .38." This time he used a shotgun. Guess he was going to make sure he hit something.
Unfortunately, some young thug out there is going to see all this as a challenge.
Probably? Definitly.
Then his surviving brother would sue the store chain, the cops, and the makers of the shotgun while undergoing intensive therapy to get over the emotional trauma he suffered, at taxpayer expense.
Over forty years ago, our house was broken into. My father remarked to one of the cops that he was tempted to keep a baseball (or cricket) bat to use if he found a creep in the house. The cop responded to the effect -
"If you do, be sure to kill him while he is still in the house. If you just hurt him, we'll have to take you in for assault, and whether you go to trial depends on how good the prosecutor's lunch was. And if he manages to get outside, he or his relatives may manage to get you arrested for homicide or attempted homicide."