A gun is pulled. A carry-concealed license holder responds. A young dies because he chose to be on the street robbing people. Which one is the victim? Well… by reading it appears that the young man was the real victim. The real victim of killers who can legally carry guns. Is there no end to the madness?
Damon Wells is the man gun supporters imagined when they fought for the right to carry concealed weapons.
He had a permit to carry his gun, and he had the gun on him when a pair of teenage thieves approached him Saturday night on his front porch.
When one of the youths pulled a gun, Wells whipped out his and shot one of the boys multiple times in the chest, police said.
Arthur Buford, 15, died after stumbling away and collapsing on a sidewalk near East 134th Street and Kinsman Road.
City prosecutors decided Monday that Wells, 25, was justified and would not be charged for what appears to be the first time a concealed-carry permit holder has shot and killed an attacker.
Nonetheless, the shooting reignited the debate that roared three years ago when Ohio’s concealed-carry law took effect.
Gun supporters said the weapon saved Wells’ life. Opponents said it took Buford’s – that the 15-year-old might be alive if a citizen had not been armed.
An angry throng of about 30 youths gathered Monday and set up a memorial at the intersection where Buford, a freshman at John F. Kennedy High School, died.
His cousin, Tameka Foster, 21, questioned why police refused to punish Buford’s shooter. “They let that man run out freely,” Foster said. “My cousin is dead.”
Who was dumb enough to ask such a inane question? Why didn’t the police question the youth and threaten them with prosecution for withholding vital information on a crime? Where is the true sense of justice. That’s the whole point. The gun of a cc holder is to defend their life and if need be to take the life of the violent criminal. Excuse me but there will be no tears for the boy who learned to run with the gang with a gun. They approached him and threatened him. Of course the media wouldn’t have complained if it was just one more dead guy at the hand of the innocent youth.
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I’m sorry, but if he hadn’t been out on the streets of Cleveland robbing people at gunpoint, then he’d still be alive today. Mr. Wells is not getting charged because he didn’t do anything wrong.
It so clear unless you want to excuse bad behavior and make the rest of us victims of reckless youth violence. Yet the media will rejoice at the opportunity to discuss strong laws against legal ownership and permit holders. In return let the criminal continue to have the edge. Think about that the second before the youth pulls the trigger in your face.
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It’s amazing how people can justify wrong doing…the 15 year old youth stabbed the “victim” multiple times and probably intended to kill her. Why is it that others are angry when a concerned citizen prevents a murder?! If the youth were my own blood relative I would be angry and ashamed at him not the Mr. Moore who saved the real “victim’s” life.
It all breaks down to good and evil, good prevailed in this situation. I the CCL holder got killed noone would have heard about it