Man preying on St. Louis women

October 29, 8:45 AMSt. Louis Gun Rights ExaminerKurt Hofmann

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A man in the St. Louis area has been robbing women at gunpoint--four of them, just last week.

St. Louis police are looking for a suspect in a string of attacks in south St. Louis. Police say the four attacks happened last week and all of the victims were female. Police say the suspect robbed his victims at gunpoint. One woman and her friend were leaving the Schnucks grocery store on South Grand when they were forced into a vehicle and told to drive off the parking lot. The suspect took the women's purses.

Here's some video, which includes some looks at the suspect's face:

The good news is that he seems--so far--to be willing to satisfy himself with robbery, rather than committing other, even more heinous, attacks.  The other good news is that Missouri is, and has been since 2003, a "shall issue" state--citizens who meet the requirements for issuance of a permit to carry a defensive handgun cannot be denied that permit, by some arbitrary, capricious whim of the issuing authority.   St. Louis tried to defy the 2003 law, and refuse to issue the permits, but in 2005, was forced to comply with the law.

I, of course, am among those greatly offended by the idea of requiring a permit to carry the means to defend oneself, of requiring the seeking of permission to exercise one's Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms.  Shall not be infringed apparently no longer means what it once did.

Still, though, at least Missouri makes that permission obtainable, unlike next door in Illinois.

As discussed earlier this week, there are wolves about in St. Louis--making it a bad place to be a sheep.

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Update: A suspect has been arrested .

An arrest was made late yesterday in the case of the south city stalker-and-robber.

Police detained a 41-year-old man matching the description of the suspect, who snuck up behind and robbed women outside stores in south Saint Louis.

That, of course, does nothing to change the fact that those who refuse to take responsibility for their own security leave their personal safety to chance.