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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrom the "Morons With Guns" files.............
Michigan woman pouts after losing gun permit for shooting at shoplifters: I will never help anybody againA Michigan woman complained after her sentencing that she was only trying to help when she opened fire at a pair of fleeing shoplifting suspects.
Tatiana Duva-Rodriguez pleaded no contest shortly after the October shooting to reckless discharge of a firearm, and she was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months of probation.
Her concealed carry permit was also revoked until 2023.
The 46-year-old Duva-Rodriguez said she opened fire on the getaway car in a Home Depot parking lot in Auburn Hills after she heard a scream and feared the incident was worse than a theft.
I made a decision in a split second, she told the sentencing judge. Maybe it was not the right one, but I was trying to help.
Neither shoplifting suspect was wounded, although a gunshot flattened one of their tires, and both men were later arrested. ..................(more)
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/michigan-woman-pouts-after-losing-gun-permit-for-shooting-at-shoplifters-i-will-never-help-anybody-again/
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marmar
Dec 2015
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"Just trying to help. Death without due process seems like a fitting punishment for shoplifting."
Buzz Clik
Dec 2015
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hunter
(40,392 posts)1. Yep. This is the U.S.A.
Where any moron can buy a gun, and many do.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)2. "Just trying to help. Death without due process seems like a fitting punishment for shoplifting."
Initech
(107,575 posts)3. And yet there's no connection between owning a gun and using it to shoot someone.
Logical
(22,457 posts)4. The NRA will come to her side. Nt