The owner of a pawn shop on Chicago's Northwest side reportedly used his gun in self defense against three robbers.
Police say that that three robbers entered the pawn shop, located on the 5900 block of West Fullerton Avenue, just before 1 PM. After being placed in fear for life by the robbers, the pawn shop owner is said to have fired in self defense, striking one of the robbers and sending his accomplices fleeing. A dead suspect was found near the crime scene, and police are seeking the two other suspects, according to news reports. No injuries to the pawn shop owner or any bystanders were reported.
This is the third self defense shooting to occur in Chicago during the last couple of weeks. In the first self defense shooting, an 80 year old Chicago homeowner used his handgun to stop a convicted felon who broke in during the ealy morning hours. In the second self defense shooting, another Chicago homeowner used his handgun to stop a fugitive who dove through his front window while running from the police.
Sadly, gun control advocates ignore the self defense value of firearms and believe that infringing the right of law abiding citizens to own a gun for self defense will somehow prevent criminals from having a gun and using it to commit a crime. The fact is that criminals ignore the laws that tell them not to have a gun, just as readily as they ignore the rest of society’s laws. The result is that criminals remained armed, and are able to prey upon their defenseless victims with impunity. Adding insult to injury, gun bans lead to situations where those citizens who fire in self defense end up prosecuted for saving their own lives. Hopefully, the soon to be decided McDonald v. Chicago case will put an end to Chicago’s handgun ban and the injustice that goes along with it, allowing more Chicago residents to defend themselves against violent criminals.
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That's three self-defense shootings in "guns-r-banned" Chicago in three weeks. The citizens will put Chicago's revolving-door criminal justice system out of business.
For how much longer will the honest citizens of Chicago permit their despicable mayor and his lap dog henchmen to place their lives in danger at no possible risk to themselves? The time has long passed that the people of Chicago have become morally justfied in disposing of Daley and his gang BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
If I should be a juror in the trial of any Chicago resident charged with homicide following such an action, I would have no problem whatsoever in seriouly considering a self-defense plea. Every person--every beast--in the United States or in the universe for that matter has an unrestricted, God-given right to protect himself and those in his care from physical harm.
Chicagoans, take back your lives!
Gun control freaks are the same ones that want open borders, sanctuary cities, and big brother cradle to grave nanny socialist governments. In other words, spoiled, ignorant, liberal children whom have no idea how the real world works.
When SCOTUS overturns the handgun ban, I think you'll see people in and around Chicago making a run on firearms at gunshops and sporting goods stores all over Illinois.
I've posted at other Examiner sites: SCOTUS' vote will be 6-3 (adding Ginsberg) on or about June 24th.
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