A New York City Hero!

America needs a few more of them. Willing to stand up and fight back. Two street thugs dead. Good. Two less mouths to feed and clog up an already over-crowded prison system. We can all quit worrying about some 45 million uninsured people. There are only 44,999,998 of them now. Thanks to Gus!

What happened is that FOUR men tried to rob a 72-year-old man's restaurant-supply store a couple days ago when they barged in and pulled out at least one 9mm pistol and then pistol-whipped an employee all the while demanding cash. The shop owner, Gus, said he told them that there wasn't any money and told them to "take your gun, put it in your pocket, and go home." They just didn't listen. Choice. Life is all about choices. Gus pulled a shotgun out and fired three times, "peppering all four men with buckshot." Wooo Hooo!!!

The four men realized then that they had made a mistake by not listening to him and choosing the first option he gave them. The thugs tried to run off but apparently didn't make it very far. One of the thugs, a 29-year-old named James Morgan has had NINE PRIOR ARRESTS. What the heck was he doing out on the streets to begin with? Career criminal. Should have been behind bars. No matter. He took a shot "directly to his face and made it only as far as the shop door before crumpling dead to the ground." Good grief, I hope he didn't get any blood on the floor. Bad enough Gus had to endure the "attempted robbery" without having to have to clean a mess up, too. The second thug, Raylin Footman, who was only 21-years-old, wasn't quite yet a career criminal with only one arrest for robbery under his belt. He died on the way to the hospital. [Who's footing the ambulance bill for him?] Their two accomplices, both 21-years-old, Bernard Witherspoon and Shamel McCloud must have left a blood trail. They were picked up by police and are "expected to survive." Taxpayers will foot the bill for their trials, their medical treatment, and state-run hotel with all the ammenities. Dayum. They are going to be "arraigned today on robbery charges." What are their prior records?

Gus says that "he felt bad about what happened." Why? He didn't do anything wrong. He felt bad that four low-lifes wanted to rob him of his hard-work? No, Gus. You have nothing to feel bad about. You did the rest of us tax-payers a favor. You single-handedly got two criminals off the streets permanently. The only thing you might even consider feeling bad about is missing the other two. The employee who was pistol-whipped, J.B. doesn't seem to be awfully upset. He said, "Sh!t went real bad for them, not for me. I'm breating. They're dead." Yep.

I think most of us will agree with Gus: "If every single citizen were allowed to hold a gun, there would be less carjackings and robberies." He's right. Fortunately Gus isn't facing any charges for his bravery. After all, "What's the worst they could do?" Shoot him. But they - the low-lifes - didn't get the chance. Yesterday Gus and his employees "tried to get back to business as usual." A woman, in an effort to memorialize the deaths of two street thugs, placed a candle outside of Gus's shop and the employee who was pistol-whipped, J.B. "angrily kicked it across the pavement." "What's this for?" he asked her, "For the guy who died? F^ck him!" Double wooo hooo!!!

Read the comments. There are some good ones.

The Chief makes a most excellent point - and I was thinking the exact same thing when I was reading the article, "I'd like to thank the writers for letting anyone that might want revenge against this real American hero the shop's name, where he hides the gun, and where this guy lives. Why didn't you just hang a bulls-eye on his back when you were interviewing him, you jacka$$e$!!!" Bingo! Well said, The Chief.

Grampa says, "Maybe it's time to explain to the PUNKS of America you're supposed to WORK for a living not take other peoples money." No kidding. The sooner the better.

BobbyB makes if humorous, "Maybe we need another beer summit. The [jeja] can lecture us on how we shouldn't use violence to settle our differences. Gee. I wonder if the kids would have been saved if we already had health reform??"

Stu C. "gets it" with his comment, "Just think about the possibilities... if everybody did what Gus did, there would soon be no more (living) criminals. It would be like a 'Pick Four and Win' lottery. Prisons and extra police would not be needed and we could balance the budget of every state." Most excellent point, Stu! Now if we could just get the criminals out of Washington. Any suggestions?

oj10030 has the audacity to say, "I really feel bad for my four brothers. They were too young to go. This country is going down." Well, oj10030, perhaps if your four brothers didn't try to rob the man's store - at gunpoint after pistol-whipping an employee - they'd be with you today. [oj10030 is an obvious product of public schools. How do I know? He cannot read. Only two of his "brothers" died.]

Downtown responds to oj10030 eloquently, "It's not a matter that they were too young to die. It's more like they were too stupid to live."

Saw the article first at JWF's place. The whole thing forces me to keep humming "Beer for My Horses" to myself... The words are so appropriate!

Well a man come on the 6 oclock news
Said somebodys been shot, somebodys been abused
Somebody blew up a building
Somebody stole a car
Somebody got away
Somebody didnt get too far yeah
They didnt get too far

Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he done
Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street for all the people to see that

Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles well sing a victory tune
Well all meet back at the local saloon
Well raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses

We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds
Weve got too much corruption, too much crime in the streets
Its time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground
Send em all to their maker and hell settle em down
You can bet hell set em down cause

Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles well sing a victory tune
Well all meet back at the local saloon
Well raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses

Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles well sing a victory tune
Well all meet back at the local saloon
Well raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses