If Someone Was Stealing Your...

[GMTool]

All proven without a doubt guilty violent criminals should be hung immediately. Car thieves and such, 3 strikes and your dead. The prison population should be minimal. Erase the criminals from society, then the good citizens would not have a need to carry weapons. Sounds easy enough.

[Heaven_is_inferno_orange]

I live in Kentucky so it would be a yes and with a shotgun unless it was the Camaro. Then I would have to go all ninja on the theif cause I wouldn't want holes in my baby.

[Mr. iNCREDIBLE]

Originally Posted by PoorMansCamaro

also interesting:



this writer really sucks. So according to the police, the owner shot while the criminal was driving away. then later, the owner has not been identified by authorities (policemen aren't authorities??) and would like to tell his side, but can't...so then did the owner actually say he shot as the criminal drove away?

possible that the owner shot, wasn't an immediate kill shot, criminal then drove off, went unconscious, then died...and then ran into a tree...

there are several articles about it and that is what I gathered, the owner shot and the kid went unconscious about 2 blocks away.

[2001ragtop]

This guy Gail Herbert Gerlach did not have his life threatened. Gail shot the guy in the back of the head as he drove away. (why didn't Gail shoot out the tires?)

He could have done that and then warned the driver not to move till the police arrive.

the thief had no gun. I hate theives but why risk having to go to jail over some old piece of crap looking suv. Gail can deal with this. (maybe he has a gun because his name is Gail.)

http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-new...4/-/index.html

[PoorMansCamaro]

Originally Posted by 2001ragtop

Looks like we have ANOTHER GEORGE ZIMMERMAN running around with a concealed weapon who thinks he has the right to shoot-to-kill.

This guy Gail Herbert Gerlach did not have his life threatened. Gail shot the guy in the back of the head as he drove away. (why didn't Gail shoot out the tires?)

Or call the police? IF YOU WANT to run around pretending to be a policeman, do not feel bad when your idea backfires on you.

I sense Gail will be charged with 2nd degree. The guy who stole his SUV did not have any gun, just a screwdriver.

Gail was ready to shoot to kill All over some old peice of crap looking SUV that i am surprised anyone would want to steal.

It will be interesting how they deal with this.

do you have a link to the article where you got your info?

[2001ragtop]

article in the news: http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-new...4/-/index.html

Also I sense they will not charge Gail with anything. If Gail walks around with a gun, then chances are he always feels threatened all the time.

He probably will end up killing someone else in the future....and when that happens, he probably will be viewed more as an aggressor if it does not look like he was in danger.

The truth is, I feel that some of these gun owners are just LOOKING for a reason to kill someone. That's why having all these gun owners running around is scary.

Look at one of these guys the wrong way and get killed for it. "he looked at me in a threatening way so I shot first and then asked questions later..."

of course, maybe Gail thought the theif was going to come back, so Gail wanted to make sure he WON'T be coming back to steal again.

that is one form of logic I am sure lots of people use. He fixed the problem permanently. at least with that specific thief.

[Top]

Originally Posted by Mr. iNCREDIBLE

While the shooter had no way of knowing this:

http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-new...z/-/index.html



that speaks volumes about the criminal, and his past actions..

If I am not mistaken, in Washington you can use deadly force to stop a felony in progress. You are right, there are still lots of legal snapphos that he will go through. I don't think i would shoot someone in my car, too much of a mess . If they are in my house or threatening my family, I would not hesitate.

[nyrfan]

http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-new...4/-/index.html

F'n bleading hearts! Instead of focusing on the death of a criminal, maybe more attention should be paid to the law abiding victims.

Can't wait for all the family and friends that are going to come out and say what a good guy the criminal was and how he'd never do something like this. The same old BS dance.

As someone said above, one less scumbag in the world.

[PoorMansCamaro]

Originally Posted by 2001ragtop

article in the news: http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-new...4/-/index.html

Also I sense they will not charge Gail with anything. If Gail walks around with a gun, then chances are he always feels threatened all the time.

He probably will end up killing someone else in the future....and when that happens, he probably will be viewed more as an aggressor if it does not look like he was in danger.

The truth is, I feel that some of these gun owners are just LOOKING for a reason to kill someone. That's why having all these gun owners running around is scary.

Look at one of these guys the wrong way and get killed for it. "he looked at me in a threatening way so I shot first and then asked questions later..."

i don't know. to associate this guy with a guy like zimmerman, is just wrong, imo. this guy was acting on a crime. someone stole his car. zimmerman was a neighborhood watchman, and didn't like the way a guy looked. two totally different scenario's. You make it sound like if you have a CWP, you are always looking for trouble, or thinking something will happen to you. this is a false assumption. I know a lot of people that carry all the time. doesn't mean they are crazed maniacs, with an itchy trigger finger...

edit: saying all that, i don't think the punishment fit the crime, but then again, looking at the criminals wrap sheet, not sure how he helped our society in any way.

[LikaRokBowTie]

One down a million more to go IAIGTS!

[motorhead]

Originally Posted by 2001ragtop

article in the news: http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-new...4/-/index.html

Also I sense they will not charge Gail with anything. If Gail walks around with a gun, then chances are he always feels threatened all the time.

He probably will end up killing someone else in the future....and when that happens, he probably will be viewed more as an aggressor if it does not look like he was in danger.

The truth is, I feel that some of these gun owners are just LOOKING for a reason to kill someone. That's why having all these gun owners running around is scary.

Look at one of these guys the wrong way and get killed for it. "he looked at me in a threatening way so I shot first and then asked questions later..."

of course, maybe Gail thought the theif was going to come back, so Gail wanted to make sure he WON'T be coming back to steal again.

that is one form of logic I am sure lots of people use. He fixed the problem permanently. at least with that specific thief.

Wow! Talking about being totally insane. I guess that's why Obama has all that armed secret service around him because he's just itching to blow someway instead of being protected from nut cases that may want to do him harm

You sir get the award for just about the most insane thing I've ever read on the internet.

[Dznts]

not worth shooting the criminal if all he did was steal a vehicle. not worth getting ran through the mud and dealing with all of the legal mess. now, if my life or families lives would have been in danger, then most definitely yes i would have shot him.

[2001ragtop]

They don't give any kind of psychological evaluation to guys who buy guns and carry concealed weapons. If they are truly insane, they still can carry a gun. The average person on the street has some kind of mental disorder. As long as no one ever tests them, then whatever their mental problem is remains completely concealed just like their concealed weapon. Just like the random guys online who drive sports cars too.

There is no way to tell the real reason why people carry guns. No one that I associate with has a gun.

If you truly feel like you have to carry a gun all the time and you are not a cop, chances are you will end up being a George Zimmerman one day. Have fun with that.

Didn't the aurora batman shooter have lots of guns? Didn't they say he is certifiably insane? If he can get tons of guns, then any psycho can get guns legally.

Didn't Jared Loughner have some guns? Is he not completely insane also? I'm just proving my point that truly insane people can easily get a gun legally.

This Gail guy may or not be completely insane. Hopefully he is perfectly sane and he just happens to be a sharp shooter who can take one single shot and hit someone in the back of the head in a moving car. That is very interesting that he did that so easily. And he did that so fast, he did not even remotely wonder if doing that might backfire on him later on with the police.

[nyrfan]

Originally Posted by 2001ragtop

They don't give any kind of psychological evaluation to guys who buy guns and carry concealed weapons. If they are truly insane, they still can carry a gun. The average person on the street has some kind of mental disorder. As long as no one ever tests them, then whatever their mental problem is remains completely concealed just like their concealed weapon. Just like the random guys online who drive sports cars too.

There is no way to tell the real reason why people carry guns. No one that I associate with has a gun.

No one you know of. Most people I associate with have no idea I carry. I don't ask and I don't tell.