Well there you have it. The reason to be carrying a gun with you at all times just presented itself.
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A Michigan woman who fired at a fleeing Home Depot shoplifter has been charged with recklessly using her concealed handgun.
The misdemeanour charge against the gun-toting, self-appointed law enforcer is the latest twist in a case that, coming just a few days after a deadly mass shooting in Oregon, helped stir a fierce and ongoing national debate over the utility, and capacity, of ordinary people wielding concealed weapons to stop and prevent crime.
The alleged act of vigilantism occurred on Oct. 6, five days after a gunman opened fire in a classroom at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., and killed nine people before committing suicide.
Tatiana Duva-Rodriguez was in the parking lot of a Home Depot in Auburn Hills, near Detroit, on the afternoon of Oct. 6 when she spotted a man fleeing the store with a cart full of stolen power tools.
When the shoplifter climbed into a waiting get-away vehicle, Duva-Rodriguez pulled out a concealed handgun and “fired shots at the suspect vehicle as it fled, flattening a tire,” according to an Auburn Hills Police Department press release. The two alleged shoplifters escaped but were arrested several days later. Only one, 46-year-old getaway driver Anthony Harris, has been publicly identified.
Michigan woman who shot at fleeing shoplifters at Home Depot charged with reckless use of a handgun
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A Michigan woman who fired at a fleeing Home Depot shoplifter has been charged with recklessly using her concealed handgun.
The misdemeanour charge against the gun-toting, self-appointed law enforcer is the latest twist in a case that, coming just a few days after a deadly mass shooting in Oregon, helped stir a fierce and ongoing national debate over the utility, and capacity, of ordinary people wielding concealed weapons to stop and prevent crime.
The alleged act of vigilantism occurred on Oct. 6, five days after a gunman opened fire in a classroom at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., and killed nine people before committing suicide.
Tatiana Duva-Rodriguez was in the parking lot of a Home Depot in Auburn Hills, near Detroit, on the afternoon of Oct. 6 when she spotted a man fleeing the store with a cart full of stolen power tools.
When the shoplifter climbed into a waiting get-away vehicle, Duva-Rodriguez pulled out a concealed handgun and “fired shots at the suspect vehicle as it fled, flattening a tire,” according to an Auburn Hills Police Department press release. The two alleged shoplifters escaped but were arrested several days later. Only one, 46-year-old getaway driver Anthony Harris, has been publicly identified.
Michigan woman who shot at fleeing shoplifters at Home Depot charged with reckless use of a handgun
