Coroner Rusty Clevenger identified the dead man as 19-year-old Dante Lamont Williams of Roebuck, who was shot in the head and body.
We need to start forwarding these type of incidents (armed attackers in restaurants / fast food joints) to California State Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-Pasadena.
Portantino wrote AB 144 (California's no unloaded handguns to go with existing no loaded handguns ban) and said the law in no way infringes on gun owners' rights.
"We're not taking anybody's right to hunt away, or anybody's right to be a security guard, or to protect your home," Portantino said.
"But you don't need a gun to buy a cheeseburger or to buy a cup of coffee."
Apparently you do need one to buy a waffle...
He knows his stuff right there. Body then head.
But I can't help but wonder if the criminals would have declined to rob the place if they saw him with an openly carried firearm instead of not seeing a firearm since it was concealed.
Sorry you live in that area (California).
I'm actually on the north Oregon coast, but I feel the pain of those living in California.
Especially after AB144, unloaded carry was bad enough, but no carry at all !?!
But I do have an idea... if we can get a lot of people to copy the Waffle House article and mail it and a frozen waffle
to California State Assemblyman Anthony Portantino and / or his local news media outlets, maybe we could get the point across.
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It's funny. I'm debating firearm carry with someone on another forum, and they brought up the irrational fear of 'trigger happy vigilantes.'The article about this I read earlier today said that the citizen not only told the criminals to stop & wait for the cops, but did not shoot until one criminal pointed a gun at him!
How level-headed is that??
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Of course, we know it couldn't have happened that way, because the Brady Bunch says we're all trigger-happy and bloodthirsty, just itching for the slightest reason to blow someone away, so he wouldn't have waited any longer than it took to clear leather & bring his hidden loaded weapon into view.
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(Did I forget any cliches?)
Sorry you live in that area (California). I used to for only 3 years.... anyway, we have said it before and I say it a million times.... if you really want to get California to change its laws, etc... then move. Move out of the state. Yeah, its easier said than done. But if people at record numbers leave California to live say...the near states... they will look at the bottom line... MONEY. MONEY talks very well over there (like anywhere else). But CA is a high taxed state...
BUt other than that... voting works well too... you probably have to get a few famous people on your side.... our side then things can change. Or take the advice of what Portantion said... "you don't need it to by a cheeseburger and/or coffee". have a state wide boycott of every fastfood place. WHen the fast food industry start asking why sales are low, then you guys can respond. Yeah... easier said than done.