War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. — John Stuart Mills

Man killed after entering Riverton gas station with shotgun identified

RIVERTON — One man who entered a Riverton Chevron Holiday gas station with a shotgun is dead after officials said an armed, unaffiliated person engaged with him.

Riverton public information officer Nate Slack said the man, Ofa’tangikivaha Angilau, 23, was shot and killed by the other individual who had a weapon.

He said no police were involved and no others at the gas station were injured.

In a statement on Monday with the name of the deceased man, Slack said initial reports that the man had fired the shotgun were incorrect.

“We want to reiterate that the investigation has determined initial reports of the man firing shots inside the Holiday Oil were incorrect,” Slack said.

The incident occurred on Friday at the gas station at 12600 S. 4185 West.

According to Slack, the man had entered the gas station to purchase alcohol, but did not have ID, so the clerk refused to sell him alcohol and he became “belligerent” and “argumentative.” At that point, another person tried to de-escalate the situation, and the man left and got into his car.

Slack said the man drove around, but soon came back with a shotgun, and an individual inside the gas station chose to fire and killed Angilau. After being shot, Angilau exited the store and collapsed outside, where he died from his injuries.

He said the person who shot the man has been very cooperative with officers.

“I think this is why a lot of people do conceal carry just to protect themselves in situations like this. Obviously a very unfortunate situation, but they do occur; they are rare, however, especially here in Riverton,” Slack said.

Well, the CT scans show that the ‘lesion’ or whatever it is, in my right lung hasn’t changed in the past 6 months. The thoracic/vascular surgeon says that as far as been his experience, if it was cancer, some sort of change would have been seen by now. So, I get  1 more CT scan in 6 months and if there’s no change………see ya. 

“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the former cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.”
– Col. Jeff Cooper

Larry Correia
@monsterhunter45
Looks like it is time to once again post my A to Z Guide to Anti-Gun Vulture Talking Points!

A. Gun owners are never trained enough so are dangerous and shouldn’t be armed at all.

B. Gun owners who do train are crazy psychos living out their wannabe fantasies itching to shoot someone.

C. Even though it takes orders of magnitude more effort to become marginally effective with martial arts than a gun, you are better off using martial arts and not having a gun.

D. *Real Men* use their hands. This is why your mom and grandma shouldn’t have guns either.

E. Twitter randos who have never been punched in the face are experts on real life violence, and whatever you have personally experienced doesn’t count.

F. No matter how trained you are, it is never enough for the hypothetical attacker they make up. Sure, your concealed handgun might be enough to stop a regular robber or rapist, but what about if you get attacked by 20 Chechen terrorists with AKs, huh? Huh? (we call this the Dracula Riding Godzilla rule)

G. If the anti-gun vulture was ever in the military, this makes them a Military Trained Expert. Even though most of the time this means they got to put 20 rounds through an M-16 once in 1992.

H. No matter how many certified MMA bad asses or combat vets go “lol wut, dork? I’d rather have a gun.” the anti-gun Twitter vulture will remain undeterred.

I. Goldilocks Rules apply. No matter how much you know about guns, you’re either too ignorant and dangerous, or you know too much and that makes you dangerous. Whatever amount the anti-gun zealot knows is Just Right.

K. Whatever stats they pull out are sacrosanct. If you cite any numbers they reflexively scream “SOURCE?!” and then have some reason they won’t accept that source when provided. “The actual FBI Crime Statistics? LAME!”

L. At some point they’ll need to talk about how big our penises are, because guns are for compensation. Obviously the female gun owners are compensating for their tiny uteruses.

M. “I believe in the Second Amendment BUUUUUUUUT-” (insert statist BS here)

N. If you insist on using terms correctly and words having actual definitions, clearly this demonstrates you are a fanatic. Words mean whatever they need to mean in that moment, especially legal ones.

O. “Castle Doctrine” is a secret right wing code word that means that you can just shoot whoever you want.

P. Get ready for a history lesson about “what the founders really intended” from some dummy who was stoned through every history class in high school.

Q. Everybody knows big blue cities are way safer than the scary red state flyover country.

R. Gun control isn’t racist! Sure, historical gun control was all about keeping guns out of the hands of the “undesirables” like freed slaves, Indians, and the Irish, but that’s totally different now!

S. AR-15s are the most dangerous gun that’s ever existed. It can fire ten thousand ultra deadly murder bullets a second and each one can explode a moose from a thousand yards away. There is nothing this miracle death machine can’t do.

T. lol your AR-15s are utterly useless against a tyrannical government.

U. The NRA is an all-powerful, super evil entity which has tricked innocent Americans into wanting ultra deadly assault rifles, to satisfy their incessant blood lust. They do this through their ultra powerful marketing, like giving out free hats.

V. Anti-gun organizations are all totally innocent grass roots movements made up of moms, orphans, and kittens, funded entirely by bake sales, who just want the best for all Americans.

W. “I grew up around guns” makes you an unassailable subject matter expert on the topic.

X. The gun industry is made up of giant soulless mega corporations who make trillions of dollars off of selling Glocks to preschoolers. This message was brought to you by benevolent small businesses like the six companies that own most of the world’s media.

Y. Even though everything the anti-gunner proposes is ass backwards and would just make the problems they are crying about worse, and everywhere they get their way good people are disarmed while evil doers are empowered…they CARE HARDER than we do. So we’re the real bad guys.

Z. “You sound angry.”

Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers.
This political judgement, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self preservation a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to God and Nature. – John Locke

Comment O’ The Day:
I have to remind people about this far too often:
“I can chamber a round faster than you can draw your gun.”
Yeah, try doing it with one of your hands or arms disabled.

Paul provides a link to a more in-depth look at the In-N-Out shooting that provides just such experience. The actual video of the shooting starts at 19 minutes.

Teen arrested in Miami Gardens food delivery robbery that left 1 man dead, police say

A teenager was arrested in Miami Gardens after a food delivery driver shot and killed a man who police say tried to rob him on Thursday afternoon.

According to Miami Gardens police, when officers responded to the shooting in the 20300 block of Northwest 34th Court, they found an adult man on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds.

He was airlifted to Aventura Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Police said the shooter, only identified as a 28-year-old black male delivery driver, stayed at the scene and told officers he had come to deliver food when he was robbed at gunpoint by two men.  According to police, the driver said he shot one of the suspects in self-defense.

Witnesses told police they saw a second suspect, described as a tall, slim man with dreads and orange slides, running west from the scene toward a white vehicle with front-end damage. Investigators issued a be-on-the-lookout for the vehicle, and a license plate reader picked up a matching car nearby soon after.

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Jabari Joshua Thomas-Broward Corrections

Detectives said they recovered surveillance video that supported the accounts from witnesses and the driver. The second suspect was identified as Jabari Joshua Thomas, 18, and found in Miramar with help from Miramar police officers.

The identity of the suspect who was killed had not been revealed, but Thomas faces charges of second-degree felony murder and armed robbery.

He is being held without bond at the Broward County Sheriff’s Office jail, pending extradition to Miami-Dade County.

 

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