Concealed Carry in action

In Ocala, Florida, just before 10pm, Duwayne Henderson and Davis Dawkins - both 19 years of age - burst into an Internet cafe with guns drawn.  They began to round up the customers, but while that was going on, Samuel Williams, age 71, pulled out his .380 semi-auto handgun and opened fire on the perps.  Henderson and Dawkins were both shot, but they survived their wounds, and are now residing in the Pokey.

The best part is that the whole affair was captured on the cafe's surveillance cameras.  You have got to see this video!  I was unable to imbed the video into my post, but click here to watch it.  Once the two perps come under fire, their efforts to hightail it out of the cafe are priceless to watch.

Having never been involved in a situation like this, it was interesting for me to watch the dynamics of the people involved.  When you see these two hooded, masked thugs enter the cafe, they seem so intimidating - almost invincible.  But all it takes is for one of their would-be victims to start shooting back, and the dynamics quickly change.  These two formerly intimidating thugs are now reduced to two frightened jackrabbits who literally trip over themselves in their wild attempts to get out of the cafe as Mr. Williams is shooting them.

This is a good lesson for the people with whom I have had arguments debates in the past where they insisted that carrying a concealed weapon would do no good because the bad guy would simply take it away from you.  As you can see, these two perps were not the fearless supermen that many people think they are.  Instead they were - as criminals often are - a couple of cowards who tried to bluff their way through a robbery with the expectation that no one would dare fight back.  When someone did fight back, you can see the results on the video.

I can't help but wonder if this incident will make Mssrs. Henderson and Dawkins think twice about continuing their life of crime.  That is what exercising your right to defend yourself is all about.  How does it go?  An armed society is a polite society.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be."  -Thomas Jefferson