Thread: There are predators among us

Friday night about 11:30 PM I was home at my little condo and the helicopter with the search light was flying overhead for over an hour. Sweeping the area and I knew something was going on.wrong. I live a few blocks from a convenience store. A few blocks further east is the tattoo shop where I've worked for the past 15 years. Ten or so years ago 2 predators killed three women during a robbery in a restaurant directly across the street from where I work. They were caught when one of the two, proud of himself, bragged to a friend who turned him in.

Friday night two clerks who worked in the convenience store were murdered in a robbery. Here is the report in the local paper along with the video from the security camera. I've stood in front of that counter paying for gasoline or whatever more times than I can count. So I went to work on Saturday wondering if I knew the two men who had been killed. I keep a 357 magnum on my person when I am at work since it is largely a cash business. Saturday was a slow day and a slower night.

I was at the shop until closing at 11PM and wondered if, with an empty parking lot, thieves would think it was an easy score. Just pull in and shoot me and my co-worker and take the cash. When I was a kid, maybe 10 or 12 years old, I remember thinking how glad I was that I didn't live in a violent society such as what I saw depicted in movies about the wild western frontier and later the gangsters of the 20s and 30s. Little did I know.

I normally never carry a gun when I'm not at work. Now I will probably slip it in my pocket as I did this morning when I took the garbage out. In this world today you can't be too careful.

Quite relieved that i don't have those concerns. My in laws are in South Africa, but even there I feel safe on the whole.
Look after yourself Jimmy.

Well, I was held up at gunpoint in an off licence in Pyrford in Surrey, and you dont get any more quiet than Pyrford! Its basically a little home counties village and the most trouble you usually get is the odd yobbo on a scooter.

After that experience, I'm all for concealed carry and home defence. I wasnt before, but I sure as heck am now! You're right, there are some nasty pieces of work out there.

Take care Jimmy, and stay safe.

All the best,

Stu

Originally Posted by Stubear

Well, I was held up at gunpoint in an off licence in Pyrford in Surrey, and you dont get any more quiet than Pyrford! Its basically a little home counties village and the most trouble you usually get is the odd yobbo on a scooter.

After that experience, I'm all for concealed carry and home defence. I wasnt before, but I sure as heck am now! You're right, there are some nasty pieces of work out there.

Take care Jimmy, and stay safe.

All the best,

Stu

I am so sorry to hear that Stuart. Where I live we have concealed carry ability. Over the last 7 or 8 years, they have given out thousands and thousands of licenses. We have never had a single incedent invovling a person with a concealed carry permit. I support with all of my being your rigtht to a concealed carry and ability to defend yourself.

I live in a very nice quiet neighborhood as well. Two days ago a 13 year old girl was walking home after getting off of the school bus and a man in an old red van started following her and video taping her. She started to run and he sped up, but she eluded him in some back yards. People have had enough of this and are not going to take much more.

David

If i didn't read it from you i couldn't believe such things happening in a real world. It is sad. I feel sorry for those who got murdered just because they were doing their jobs. Take good care for yourself Jimmy.
We have it totally different here, but probably we are going to that same direction some day. Happy i am old enough not to see those times coming.

Getting killed in a robbery is very very rare here, as burglars and robbers do not usually carry firearms. I do not even remember when it was the last time someone died in a robbery here. Must be many years ago.

It's a rough world, out there. Stay safe, Jimmy.

As an aside, I saw some of your work in the Inkslinger thread.... really capital stuff. I'm not a tattoo guy myself, but I appreciate the skill that goes into clean lines and the artful design itself.

i myself have lived in some pretty rough parts of town.. i've found that with the right look in your eye.. no one messes with you.. i was once robbed at knife point when i was about 22.. i pulled 6 bucks out my front pocket and said it was all i had..

I had a guy pull a knife on me in school over a seat. A couple of years later I heard that a 15 year old kid got stabbed in the chest over a lettermans jacket at the same school. People get crazier every day.

"I carry a .45,because a cop is too heavy"

I firmly believe more ppl need to exercise the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. You can't disarm criminals,so the citizenry needs to protect themselves.

Hi Jimmy,
I'm sorry to hear of the deaths of those poor people.It must be awful living near to that sort of thing .In England we don't (and are not allowed to by law) carry firearms.
At times though i wish i could - as a taxi driver I am always under threat of being robbed - but mercifully have never been threatened with a weapon.(I think I woulld s..t myself if i was threatened with a gun.)
It just so happens I caught a woman red-handed lifting a cash note out of my cashbox last saturday afternoon when she thought I wasn't looking.
Yep-it's all around you these days.
What I don't like about USA robberies is that they shoot you without warning and no quarter given.
Stay safe - hope you never have to use that revolver.
regards
Noggs