Elessar wrote:blacknblue wrote:justTripn wrote:Last weekend a 19-year-old was shot to death in a robbery at the restaurant right across the street from the movie theater where my 17-year-old son was working at the time. When my son's girlfreind(?) called him about it. he was standing right in front of that very restaurant (Damon's) waiting for the bus. So this weekend I guess I drive him over an back to work each night. So I don't want to hear any jokes about "long live the gun show loopholes" or "your cold dead hands." That 19-year-old had a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Surely you must know that no one here would joke about something like that. It is a horrible thing for anyone to be the victim of such a crime, most especially a young person with the whole world laid out in front of them. And to have your son be standing there must have made your blood run cold. I know it would have made mine freeze. I suspect it would have made any parent react the same way. I always hated letting my kids go where crimes had occurred in our neighborhood. Sometimes you can't avoid it, there are just too many of the cursed places. But a parent can't help feeling their gut tighten up. I understand your fear, and your anger, and your frustrated pain. I know exactly how you feel. Every parent on this board knows exactly how you feel.
Someone robbed a restaurant? You mean like a Denny's like in Pulp Fiction where they rob all of the patrons? Wild. I didn't think that actually happened anymore (restaurants).
It's shitty, but in my mind just reinforces the truth of the fact that in the conceal & carry debate, there's no place that it doesn't make sense to carry. When I had this debate with my mom she would say something like "Well why would you take a gun somewhere peaceful like a restaurant? Do you expect something to happen?" Well. No. But there you go.
El, if the news story I looked up is the right one the kid got shot just after midnight when he was closing him. He and his buddy were working together when a gang banger pushed hsi way in, shot the teenager and forced the second worker to hand over the cash. Then he made a break for it. According to the stories I read, he hasn't been caught yet.
No way to know where he got the gun. Legal buy, stolen, or taken off the body of a cop. And even if the teenager had been carrying he might have been caught by surprise in a situation like that. Which is why I am always paranoid I guess.
. If I don't make it back, keep my memory green folks.
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