Gun store posters take flak
For more than a week, a local gun shop owner has been under scrutiny regarding certain advertisements outside his front door.

Nashville Guns owner Dennis Nielsen has been met with the watchful eyes of a few county officials and town residents for the storefront posters of women holding guns. Facing two documented complaints, Nielsen maintains that he has done nothing wrong and runs a clean business.

Facing the Washington Street sidewalks are two posters inside of Nielsen’s gun shop windows. The first poster shows a model with blond-streaked hair in a black dress holding an AR-15 rifle, with the second picture of the same model holding a .357 magnum pistol. Inside his shop, similar posters are attached to the walls, showing the same model holding different weapons.

The photos in the news story don’t appear to be risque in the slightest.

Two pizza shop employees were headed out with the night deposit:

“At approximately 9:30 p.m., two male employees were getting into a vehicle with the night deposit when two black males approached their car,” Thompson said. “One of the suspects was armed with a handgun, while the other was holding a piece of lumber.”

Thompson said the victims were ordered to lie on the ground.

“While the victims were on the ground, they were both struck in the head with a blunt object,” Thompson said.

Cooperating with bad guys doesn’t always work out.

Got google alerts for all of these stories today:

South Haven, MI: Pizza delivery driver robbed at gunpoint

Portsmouth, VA: Pizza delivery driver robbed at gunpoint in Portsmouth

New Castle County, DE: Delivering pizzas downright dangerous

Akron, OH: One of the females made arrangements for a pizza delivery driver to be at a location so the male could rob him

Raleigh, NC: Pizza shop worker shot in robbery attempt

Gaston, North Carolina:

A would-be burglar who’d been scared off from one house by a 70-year-old woman found himself a few minutes later staring down the wrong end of a shotgun at another, police say.

And before the sun rose Sunday, Joshuah Scott Rutledge probably figured out that this northern Gaston County town wasn’t ripe for the picking.

“If they think Stanley is sleepy, they’ve got another thing coming,” said 56-year-old Phyllis Osborne, who now calls her 62-year-old husband Richard her “knight in shining armor.”

Rutledge, 26, of Oakboro was reportedly climbing through a bathroom window of a woman’s home on the 3500 block of N.C. 27 in Stanley at 4:30 a.m. Sunday when the woman, who’d had her 70th birthday the week before, spotted him and scared him away before he could get inside.

He then apparently went to a house across the street off N.C. 27 on Watts Street, this time making it inside.

But once inside he found himself staring at Richard Osborne and an old shotgun that his wife’s grandfather had once used to slaughter hogs. Whether the gun would still fire a shot remains in question.

Apparently, the punk didn’t feel lucky.

Something that needs to be constantly hammered when talking about gun control is that, when it comes to self defense, a gun is the only tool available that allows a huge segment of the population to equalize or neutralize the threat of criminals younger and stronger than they are.

And this doesn’t only apply to the very valid “but criminals would still have guns” argument. Even if you could “wave the magic wand” and make all firearms everywhere vanish in a poof, the older and weaker among us would be at the mercy of the young thug. Therefore, even if it were possible to 100% disarm 100% of the criminals, guns would be 100% necessary.

We should be asking “Why do gun control proponents want to make victims of senior citizens?“

Those watching things closely may have noticed a trend:

• Gun sales jump (Utah)
• Area gun sales spike (Alabama)
• Gun sales rise in Ohio, stay flat in Ross County (Ohio)
• Gun sales shoot up after Election Day (Colorado)
• Gun sales up, supplies down (Texas)
• S.D. gun shops see rise in sales (South Dakota)
• Gun, ammo sales increase in Churchill, Lyon counties (Nevada)
• Local gun sales increase since election (Arkansas)
• Gun sales shoot way up (Maine)
• Hawaii gun sales shooting up
• Fear Fuels Gun Sales Locally (West Virginia)
• Gun Sales Are Up Since Obama Election (Kentucky)
• Fear of ban increases gun sales (Mississippi)
• Finger on safety as gun sales shoot upward (Idaho)
• Gun sales rise as owners fear stricter controls (North Carolina)
• Gun Sales Boom Ahead of Obama Presidency (Tennessee)
• Gun Sales Booming Since Presidential Election (Nebraska)
• Gun sales, permits climb following election (North Dakota)
• Gun Sales Rise As Buyers Anticipate Political Change (Washington)
• Gun Sales Shoot Upward in Springfield (Missouri)
• Madison gun sales soar (Virginia)
• Some stores see surge in gun sales (Pennsylvania)
• Firearm sales surge following election (Wisconsin)

These are all from the past two or three days and aren’t simply re-runs of AP items in different papers. All of these have considerable, if not exclusively, local content. I could easily have included many, many more.

No doubt, the media coverage is feeding the flames a bit. As is the fact that hunting seasons are kicking off or underway in most states right now. But the trend is unmistakable.

It doesn’t seem to be localized to the bitter, clingy parts of the nation. Or to the red states.

Greenville Pizza Delivery Driver Shoots Robber

Greenville Police say the incident happened early Monday morning at 1105 A Masters Lane when the Chanellos Pizza driver said three suspects began hitting him as he was delivering the pizzas. Police say the delivery driver then pulled out a gun and began to fire. One of the three robbery suspects was struck. Elvis Deans Junior, a 17 year-old student at South Central High School, is listed in stable but critical condition. He’ll be charged with Common Law Robbery and Assault Inflicting Serious Injury.

Later, he’ll be included in with “children” injured by guns. Another 17 year old, two 18 year olds, and a 14 year old mastermind have also been charged.

If previous incidents are any guide, the pizza guy will lose his job for carrying a weapon while on the job.

Via CGSDB.

Men Attempt Robbery, Woman Shoots One Dead, Deputies Say

A woman who was awakened Friday morning to two men trying to ram a van through the front door of her business shot and killed one of the men, Montgomery County deputies said.

Deputies said the two men had robbed a motel in Troy earlier before driving to a Mount Gilead coffee shop and attempting to rob it.

That’s when deputies said Bouaphan Chanthunom, 51, opened fire with an assault rifle, instantly killing Joseph Murphy McRae, 36, of Mount Gilead.

No make on the weapon. Maybe it was an SKS-47.

At the Univeristy of North Carolina – Charlotte:

Participants had to give their teachers a heads-up at the start of class if they wore a holster.

You have to alert your teacher that you’re wearing an empty holster? Do people wearing pink ribbons or rainbow pins have to give the teacher a heads up? How about people wearing Livestrong wristbands?

Via Instapundit.

Gunning For a Concealed Carry Permit in North Carolina.

Good story about going to class to get your permit.

Only problem I saw was that it isn’t “30 or so other states where concealed carry is allowed,” it’s 48. Only Illinois and Wisconsin don’t have some form of concealed carry allowance, and Alaska and Vermont don’t even require a permit. 37 of the remaining 46 states are “shall issue” states.

Murdoc, in fact, does not have his concealed carry permit. Later this spring is the plan.

A few weeks back I pointed out a story about a pizza delivery driver in the St. Louis area who shot and killed a would-be robber. The driver had a vaild Florida CCW permit which is honored by Missouri.

Now we have a similar case that North Carolina news is calling Vigilante Justice:

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say the man was delivering pizza around 9 p.m. to an address at the Greenbrier apartments off Sharon Amity Road, near Eastland Mall.

When the customer tried to rob him, police say the delivery man fired shots then reported the incident. The victim was lying on the grass when police and paramedics arrived. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

This marks the fourth homicide in Charlotte through the first eight days of the year.

The video news report is titled “Vigilante justice” and reporter Bryn Hough calls it the “Charlotte’s fourth murder of the year.” Vigilante justice. Murder. All for stopping someone from robbing you. Oh, and the man who attempted to rob the driver is referred to as “the victim.”

See War on Guns for more, including a statement by Domino’s that it’s against company policy for employees to be armed while on the job. The pizza guy in St. Louis also worked for Domino’s.