A 45-year-old Peoria man was robbed at gunpoint Saturday evening after parking his car.
The two gunmen approached the man after he parked his vehicle across the street from 2602 W. Marquette St.
When he stepped out of the vehicle, they told him to get to the ground, and one pressed a handgun to his head, he told police.
They demanded money, and the man gave them $80 from his wallet. After taking cash and his wallet, they then ran north toward an alley. No one was injured. From PJStar.
Question: Which holster could this fellow have been carrying his weapon in that would have given him a chance to defend himself against the people robbing him? Do you think these robbers would have been able to take his weapon? Had he attempted to pull his weapon, do you think he would be alive today?
7 comments:
IMO - This person could only do what the robbers told him. It makes sense to give them the $80.
If he had fought them off for $80 and one of the robbers or anybody else in the area had been shot, the victim would probably be sued
If the victim had been carrying a gun - that would be one more gun on the street.
Oh no, conceal carry is suppose to DETER. See, the theory is that if a thug knows or thinks someone is carrying a gun, they will not rob them.
So, let's say a thug robs another thug by gunpoint over a drug deal gone wrong. Does thug #1know that thug #2 doesn't have a gun?
Please...the thugs all seem to have guns and still thug on each other knowing the other probably is conceal carrying. Deterence doesn't seem to work there.
I agree with you. I think this legislation idea is nuts and is only going to get innocent citizens killed. I'm willing to bet that at least half of the population of our city does not know how to operate a gun properly - I know I certainly don't - and I think that a lot of fools are going to start carrying around guns thinking they can protect themselves and instead end up hurting someone else instead.
I'm all for people having to right to bear arms, but I think that this is just dangerous. Especially what with our current economic situation. People are desperate and this doesn't seem like the way to solve the problem.
It seems like you have this idea that people who want to *legally* carry guns are stupid.
Certainly in this tactical situation there was absolutely no benefit from carrying a weapon, but there are many that are there.
And innocent citizens are getting killed, and having the right to bear arms will deter crime. No one has yet cited a case where violent crimes went up in areas where concealed carry was allowed. It just hasn't happened.
I completely fail to understand why everyone is OK with people having guns illegally (because the gun ban in Chicago or DC hasn't stopped that) but are against law abiding citizens having them.
Violent crime is deterred by concealed carry, but it certainly isn't eliminated. But then, police officers are shot every year as well and everyone knows they're carrying, so violent people will be there no matter what.
So no, this man would have been a fool to draw his gun if he were carrying one, but I'm not convinced he was thinking tactically about the situation anyway.
james3v1, have you happened to drive on the streets and roads in Peoria lately? Yes, these will be the same stupid people who may be conceal-carrying. That alone frightens me. Yes, 'legal' people are stupid, too.
Ooops, I meant to type 'legal' people CAN be stupid, too.
I have no problem with the assertion that people CAN be stupid. It's just that when this topic comes up everyone assumes that EVERYONE who will carry a weapon would be stupid, while ignoring that the illegality of carrying a weapon has done little to no good to keep them off the streets.
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