How to stop a crazy man with a gun?

You have another man with a gun shoot him. Once again we have a situation where some kook or criminal pulls a gun on people and starts making threats. And once again we have an armed citizen who stopped the bad guy dead in his tracks.

It’s an old story of course. An armed citizen stops a criminal or a crazy nut for doing harm to others. And of course, the Obama Propaganda Organization refuses to cover it. In this case, someone in serious need of a good career councilor tried to rob a store in Orrville, Alabama. Here are the details from WSFA.com:

New details are emerging in the investigation into a shooting at a Dallas County dollar store that ended with a gunman dead at the hands of a customer who decided to take action. Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson has identified the gunman as Kevin McLaughlin from Orrville and the customer as Marlo Ellis, 37, also from Orrville. The fatal shooting happened around 12:45 p.m. Thursday at the Dollar General on Highway 22 in Orrville.

Officials say McLaughlin walked into the store waving a gun in the air and forced a cashier and Ellis at gunpoint towards a break room. At that point, Ellis pulled out a concealed weapon and shot McLaughlin once in the chest.

“He escorted a customer who was trying to leave the store and a cashier toward a break room. The cashier went in first and the customer went in behind her, and the individual had the gun on the customer and the customer had a pistol concealed in a holster,” Dallas County Sheriff Harris Huffman said. “And when the customer got to the door, he turned around and shot the individual.”

And a good thing too! Who knows where this might have led? A criminal intent on robbery usually just wants the cash and get out of the store as fast as he can. Forcing people into a back room? That smells of an execution about to happen.

Other customers and delivery men were inside the store at the time of the incident. Several customers making their way into the store saw McLaughlin waving a gun and ran away.

As I would have as well. Then I would have called the police and told them there was an armed maniac and that he looked like he was going to shoot the place up. Now there was a sign on the front door of the store.

There was another sign on the doors of the business stating that open carry of a weapon was not allowed inside the store. According to the sheriff, the Ellis’ gun was concealed and inside a holster.

So he obeyed the rules and wasn’t carrying his gun in the open.

His investigators are confirming whether Ellis has a valid concealed carry permit.

That’s Standard Operating Procedure in a case like this.

“The deceased individual had his in his hand, waving it. The customer actually had one in a holster covered up. We’re in the process of checking on permits and all of that. To have a gun concealed, you need a permit. To carry it open carry, you don’t. But you have a sign in a place of business, that’s letting you know that the people inside that place of business do not want guns in there,” the sheriff said.

So the criminal was violating the store’s policy of no open carry. What a surprise.

Sheriff Huffman says his department’s findings would be turned over to a grand jury for review. He says the incident is currently being called a death investigation.

“You have one individual waving a gun and you have another one who shoots the one waving the gun. Some people say that’s justifiable. Then you’re going to have some who says it’s not. I think we need to get all of the information we can get from everybody and then go forward from there,” the sheriff said in an interview.

This is pretty much of a requirement when a citizen defends himself and others where a criminal gets shot. I really don’t see this going to a grand jury, however I’m not at all familiar with how they do things down in Alabama. As to those morons who don’t think the citizen had the right to shoot this criminal? What would they have done? I think we can assume that those who say this would not have a gun on them and would have probably gotten injured or killed by the criminal maniac.

McLaughlin’s motive remains unclear. Sheriff Huffman does not think it was a robbery. He says words were exchanged between McLaughlin and the people inside the store but there was never any mention of a robbery or hold up or money.

Uh huh. More and more this is looking like someone was going to get two in the head.

Local residents reacted Thursday as news of the incident spread.

“It’s a shame because we never had anything like this done in this area before. Now we fear the streets when we walk into stores and stuff. It’s very shocking. I hate what happened,” said Nicole Miller.

Why would you be afraid? The maniac who might have harmed you has now assumed room temperature. I seriously doubt you have anything to worry about from people who are carrying a gun, either openly or concealed and are just going about their lawful business. They have no intention of robbing you are doing you injury. In fact, if someone tried to rob or injure you, they probably would step in and protect you.

On Friday, District Attorney Michael Jackson said he doesn’t expect Marlo Ellis to face any charges in the incident at the Dollar General.

“In Alabama you have the right to defend yourself or a third party so when the perpetrator went in there with a gun anybody in the store had the right to deadly force and that’s what happened so he actually was a Good Samaritan in this situation because other people could have been injured if he hadn’t taken action,” Jackson told WSFA.

It’s always nice to see a member of the State Law Enforcement community showing good judgment. Now he does have a duty to the community to investigate what happened, make sure all the “T’s” are crossed and the “i’s” have been dotted. Now there is one issue regarding Marlo Ellis.

Jackson confirmed that Marlo Ellis, the customer who used deadly force, is facing charges of rape in the second degree and enticing a child for immoral purposes, stemming from a 2013 investigation involving a girl under the age of 16. Court documents state that Ellis picked the victim up at a school basketball game and drove her to his house where they had sex. The district attorney said Ellis’ sex case is on the trial docket for February. He has been out of jail on bond. Jackson tells WSFA that Ellis was within his rights to have a concealed carry permit because he has not been convicted of any crimes.

This is an entirely separate incident and will be adjudicated in a court of law. It doesn’t detract from the fact that Kevin McLaughlin came into that store and started herding people into a room, possibly to commit mass murder. If Ellis is guilty of the charges, the jury will convict him and a judge will met out the appropriate punishments.

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