http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/08/1429362/-Mich-woman-who-shot-at-alleged-Home-Depot-shoplifter-was-not-being-threatened-when-she-fired-gun?detail=email
By now you've probably heard about the Michigan woman who pulled out a gun in the parking lot of the Home Depot in Auburn Hills and fired shots at someone running from the store with a security guard chasing them (details HERE.) The store is part of a retail district with hundreds of stores in the area.
Here's an overhead shot from Google maps showing the Home Depot where it all went down:
Well, it turns out (not surprisingly) that she was not being personally threatened when she fired at the alleged shoplifter:
Police confirmed on Wednesday that a concealed pistol license (CPL) holder was not being threatened by a fleeing shoplifter when she decided to fire multiple shots at him in a Home Depot parking lot.
And experts interviewed Wednesday doubted the shooting could have been justified.
And that, my friends, might just put her in jail.
and that my friends begs to question why she isn't in jail?????????????????
To use a concealed weapon in Michigan, a CPL holder needs to think that there is an imminent danger of death, great bodily harm or sexual assault, or think there is a similar danger to someone else, said Rick Ector, a firearms trainer who runs Legally Armed Detroit. He added that a gun is “truly a tool of last resort.”
“In that situation personally, there’s no way I would be shooting my gun,” said another instructor, Dawn Martin, with the Kalamazoo-based Viper Security Enforcement Inc.
And:
“It’s my worst nightmare as a CPL instructor,” said Doreen Hankins, owner of Detroit Arms, which holds CPL classes. “You have to know the entire situation before you pull that handgun out. And I don’t see that a shoplifter at Home Depot fills any of those criteria.” [...]
Hankins, the owner of Detroit Arms, said of the shooting, “None of it makes sense. Even if it were law enforcement, they wouldn’t do that.”
She added, speaking of CPL holders: “You are not a police officer. You are not a person out there protecting the public at large.”
still waiting to hear if she has even been questioned and her CPL revoked. she clearly violated the law and attempted to kill another not to mention the others who may have been on the parking lot driving or walking. why is she not been arrested??????????????
republican carry licenses are no more than a license to kill, and we see here what can happen is it more important to be a vigilante armed to kill or protection of you and your family at the mall?????????? maybe you need to ask those in your state who implement these kinds of laws.
