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Armed 70-Year-Old Women’s Basketball Coach Shoots Attackers While Walking Two Players to Their Cars

Armed 70 Year Old Womens Basketball Coach Shoots Attackers While Walking Two Players to Their Cars

WXYZ-TV

A 70-year-old women’s high school basketball coach shot and killed one would-be mugger and injured another while walking two players to their cars Friday night in Detroit, WXYZ-TV reported.

Police said the coach, who has not been named, was approached by two teens who tried to rob him in the parking lot of Martin Luther King High School as he walked with two girls around 7:30 p.m, WDIV-TV reported. One of the attackers died and the other was taken to the hospital in serious condition.

Sources told WXYZ the coach was also a reserve police office with a license to carry a concealed pistol. One of the teens was also armed with a gun.

According to WDIV, both teens were students at the high school, though the one who died had recently been expelled.

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Comments (288)

  • Ceefour
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:54pm

    Ok,all you pink pantied ballerina slippered antigun antiselfdefense weasels….take this and shove it up your cloakas….

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    • afishfarted
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:40pm

      Sounds to me like the coach oughta be transferred—to the target shootin’ class. And kudo’s to the girl for carryin’ too.

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    • MisterSarcastic
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:43pm

      The News Anchor said it was unexplainable. Seems pretty simply to me. Two thugs tried to rob innocent people and one of the innocents shot them. What part was not explained?

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    • MisterSarcastic
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:44pm

      Misplaced post, sorry.

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    • Sumrknght
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:49pm

      No no no Fish – one of the teen ATTACKERS had a gun. Coach was definitely justified… guess he made that expulsion from school permanent.

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    • TH777
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 4:00pm

      @Ceefour: Don’t be shy! Tell us how you really, really feel! I’m only teasing you. I understand your frustration!

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    • rs9
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 4:34pm

      Was that you Trevon? oh guess not

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    • afishfarted
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 4:37pm

      @Sumrknght

      yup. Just re-read the story, and it seems I read it wrong. Makes more sense

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    • gyro
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 4:39pm

      bingo
      Ceefour

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    • BetterInformed
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 5:04pm

      Just takin’ out the trash.

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    • John 1776
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 5:20pm

      I am blown away by the anchor calling it “Unexplainable!” Is the media that far gone? I guess. The fact that the coach had CCL is the only reason he is not a chalk line on the pavement, and possibly the girls he was walking out as well.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 5:23pm

      A. Detroit.
      B. Martin Luther King High School.
      C. One robber was a student??
      D. Other robber was expelled. (can you do that in Detroit?)
      E. Obama would take the coach’s gun so the robber would be safer.

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    • stablepar
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 6:33pm

      only one dead. wonder how many rounds he needed. maybe better news tomorrow

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 6:41pm

      all i can say is good for the coach……………..if you rob-home invade or assault someone……..you give them the right to shoot the s@#t out of you…….

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    • cgnick
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 7:33pm

      This story makes my day. Two idiots learned a lesson. It’s unfortunate that one of them died but that’s the way natural selection goes. Good job coach!!!!!

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 7:38pm

      STABLEPAR
      Give him some slack, he was 70 and being robbed. His hands were probably shaking. At least we don’t have to pay for one slime ball to sit in a comfortable jail, with three squares, free health care, and TV all day.

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    • rickc34
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 8:01pm

      It would seem the coach used proper gun control. Good guys 1 bad guys 0

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    • Wolf
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 8:11pm

      If Obamao had a son, he’d look like the perps.

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    • zman173rd
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 8:18pm

      MOST news org’s will make the robbings teens as victims because of thier sad Detroit backgrounds. If the teacher had not been so quick to shoot we would have two teens alive to be shown the error of their ways and would have undergone therapy and training for a new job. Such as a school security gaurd because they have a prior history of gun knowledge. The teacher will be “expelled” instead of given the proper recognition he deserves. Sad to say, in this current environment he will be held accountable for his reaction. It’s too late folks. Soon they will come for your guns too. I’m sure they will take his and he will never get it back. To the Blaze:
      FOLLOW UP ON THIS STORY!. this is what we miss from a true newsite.

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    • Dr Vel
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 9:31pm

      “Just a tragedy” “unexplainable”?

      This passes for TV news in Detroit? It was half justice the other one lived. A robber carrying a gun to rob intends to kill the innocent victims who resist. There is no other reason for the teen having the gun on him while he was out looking for his next victim. The other one may not have carried a gun but knew his partner did and fully intended to back his fellow murdering thug up. Death is all either deserve period. They are deranged beasts and animals roaming the streets in search for victims. No mercy no retreat is the only way to handle these criminals. The only tragic fact was one lived and will get out one day after being hardened by prison to do more of the same and even worse. The most criminal thing in civil society is laws keeping the law abiding living in fear unable to protect themselves. This serves merely to increase the number of jackals roaming the streets in search of innocent prey. If it is possible anything can be more criminal than these laws, it is prosecuting the victims who manage to defend themselves. The fact the woman telling the story on TV can call it “tragic” and “unexplainable” boggles the mind.

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    • TROONORTH
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 10:41pm

      ” Fill your hands you son of a bitch!”

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:22am

      Wait till the shot ones mamas gets on the news….he was a good kid….blah blah blah….

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    • patriot30-378
      Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:03am

      Big mistake, he either stopped shooting too soon or needed a larger clip. Only one perp dead. How depressing. Judge, jury, executioner………..

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    • GrayPanther
      Posted on February 3, 2013 at 9:28am

      AMEN! It may have been justice by a near civilian but justice non the less. Too bad both perps did not expire and save the expense of a trial.

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    • Judy72204
      Posted on February 3, 2013 at 10:21am

      I guess they thought they were “safe” to rob because we all know you are “safe” in a school zone..Any teacher that takes a course and gets a conceal permit should have their gun in every so-called “safe” school zone. The main place where licensed law-abiding citizens need to be armed are the “No Guns Allowed” places.

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    • stopspending
      Posted on February 3, 2013 at 10:22am

      DA mugger thought he was in a “gun free school zone” so it was OK to pull a gun on others. Guess he learned a lesson a little too late. We need more guns in “gun free zones” to stop this stuff.

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    • wethepublicans
      Posted on February 3, 2013 at 11:07am

      afishfarted- i think that means one of the teen muggers was armed. i doubt a high school student leaving basketball practice would be carrying a weapon.

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    • dcatkin
      Posted on February 3, 2013 at 11:40am

      Good for the coach, see Obama gun control crime. I hope they both die for trying to mug a 70 year old lady. Of course al the left cars about is getting guns out of the hands of people.

      Oh sorry sir could you please go mug somebody else, I don’t have any form of defedse except a fart oops it didn’t work, blame it on Obama.

      Free Our Country

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    • shorelineliz
      Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:56pm

      Amen! This is what law abiding citizens who have the right to keep and bear arms is all about! Way to go Second Amendment!

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    • TrueAmerican1775
      Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:59pm

      Good job and glad the coach and the two young ladies are alright. I hope they get some help for the trauma that will follow this event.

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  • DadRocked
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:53pm

    That coaches players won’t be giving the coach any B.S. anymore either.
    A coach always gets the respect from his team and this sure will do it…

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  • stealthseesall
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:53pm

    If only the Detroit newspaper had published the names of school coaches that have a license to carry then this great tragedy could have been avoided and the two teens would be alive today to rob a more liberal victim. Shame on you Detroit Press

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    • kapnkd
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:30pm

      If only the Detroit papers would have printed anything on the story. Nothing mentioned yet!!!!! Must be too mundane, boring and everyday occurrence to print – or perhaps does NOT fit their liberal agenda.

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    • BlazingPatriot
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:32pm

      Publish the names of school coaches? The anti-gun Detroit Free Press has not even printed the article in its liberal newspaper!

      How quick they are to print a story of a perpetrator brandishing an illegal gun yet when the tables are turned and the armed person is a law abiding citizen you will rarely ever read about it.

      This news story was broadcast by the Detroit TV news stations.

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    • BlazingPatriot
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:33pm

      @ KAPNKD ….. Spot on! You beat me to the punch.

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    • SamZydeco
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:46pm

      I disagree with your premise in that it assumes the two criminals are/were literate.

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    • Spitfire1938
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 4:00pm

      Detroit Free Press…. why that’s communist controlled Gannett’s largest Daily propaganda rag… they must not have had any room left on the back page; Oh sorry…. I forgot, they can’t afford to publish a back page anymore!

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    • Marcia
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 5:49pm

      Good one.

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  • turkey13
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:43pm

    Wow – old or young, the people of America are getting armed and saying enough is enough. This woman is 70 and saved the tax payers money by getting rid of the low lifes. In Oct. of 2012 in Durant Oklahoma a 12 year old girl was home alone during fall break from school. A man starting ringing the door bell and kept knocking on the door. The girl called her mother and mom told her to get her Glock Semi-auto gun and hide in the hall bathroom closet. .While on the phone with 911 she heard the guy break in. Six minuits later she saw the door knob turn and she fired. The police arrested him out front with a stomach wound.

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    • chips1
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:18pm

      It wasn’t a woman. It was a male. He teaches womens basketball.

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    • garbagecanlogic
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:22pm

      It was a man – not a woman coach.

      Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

      The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
      The U.S. Out Of The U.N.

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    • TH777
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:53pm

      @Chips: Thanks! I was a little confused also as to whether it was a man or a woman.

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    • SageInWaiting
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 6:43pm

      Getting laid-off is better than still working in that &*^&%$ city (or suburbs). Just look at the wasteland 40 years of “progressive” policies gets you… not the utopia many in government now foresee. As they say, “Sucks to be” those road slime perps who have absolutely no respect for life. To them, a dead victim is one less witness – often dumped in an abandoned building and torched.

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  • Beachmastermax
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:42pm

    Coach, Good Job! With possibly one second left the game, you stepped up to the line in a two for one situation, and drained (shot) them both for the WIN!!!!!!!!! (well, you only drained one, the other kinda bounced around on the rim before going in). Obviously, a “gimme the ball” type of guy.

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  • Excomunicatedmarine
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:37pm

    Well done. A word of advice………don’t mess with older folks with guns, they are well beyond giving a shiite about politically correct.

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  • Thighmaster
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:35pm

    I’ll bet the two colored boys were obeying all the local and federal laws while robbing the innocent people. Poor kids, they’re so misunderstood. Careful there would be muggers, watch the news, gun sales have skyrocketed so it’s your move. We gonna buss a cap in yer ass….

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    • azfelix
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 5:38pm

      “If I had a son in Detroit, he’d attend MLK high school…”

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    • Beachmastermax
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 5:51pm

      If Obama had a son, there would be no chance in H*ll he would attend any H.S. named MLK. Black people are nothing but pawns to him. Something to be used to advance his own personal ambitions.

      Sadly, blacks will end up being more stigmatized after BHO gets done with his plan.

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    • TRILO
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 8:23pm

      Where did the article mention race? Just wondering.

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    • beeboop
      Posted on February 3, 2013 at 11:47am

      Obongos sons at it again.

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  • strawberry411a
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:31pm

    One down. One standing by. Good job coach.

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  • OldSurfRat
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:26pm

    Due to my avatar I always find this clip to be appropriate in every one of these defense shootings.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqqGFoASs9s

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  • EgbertThrockmorton
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:25pm

    Unfortunately, the leftists in our media will proclaim this to be a racks attack, on two poor unfortunate “youths” who were merely participating in a self-appointed role of “redistribution of wealth”, that is so excused when this particular demographic commits armed predation upon society.
    We need much more of this kind of an outcome, to teach and positively reinforce to these socio-economically disenfranchised “youths” , that committing violent acts against people while approved by the Black Congressional Caucus and this current President, STILL is against the .as, and very hazardous to one’s health. Excellent work, Coach!

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    • turkey13
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:35pm

      This is a shame and shouldn’t have happened. The person that puts up signs on campass should be fired. It wouldn’t have happened if he had put up the “Robber Free Zone.”

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    • WaterTheTree
      Posted on February 3, 2013 at 3:13pm

      How long until we hear that the dead kid “was just beginning to turn his life around”?

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  • ABRAXUS
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:24pm

    justice

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  • MangoT21
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:23pm

    So it’s okay to have a gun on a school campus if you’re a former cop and use it heroically?

    I was under the impression that the gun free school zone act had no protection for discharging firearms. Only protecting a select few to merely carry them (cops, security, etc)

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    • proliance
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:16pm

      Where did you read he was a former cop? The story says he is a reserve officer.

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    • kapnkd
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:38pm

      He/She is a “reserve” officer. Police officers, in general, are exempt from the rules of banned weapons in schools or other designated “no weapon” areas.

      Lucky for the coach/reserve officer and the two students the coach was “packing” that time.

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    • rebart
      Posted on February 3, 2013 at 10:06am

      MANGOT21, What does this mean? “I was under the impression that the gun free school zone act had no protection for discharging firearms.”

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  • Azzman
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:22pm

    This is the real Martin Luther King’s dream, not the he wants people to be judged by the content of their character…

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    • Eraina962
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 8:40pm

      One day all schools, hospitals, streets, etc. named after Martin Luther King will have their names changed because MLK Anything will be so associated with violence, criminality, incompetence, danger and failure that the name alone will be considered the ‘kiss of death’.

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  • OlefromMN
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:21pm

    “One of the teens was also armed with a gun.”

    In high-school? Excuse me, but isn’t it illegal for a minor to carry? It is in MN.

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    • chips1
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:46pm

      It was a spontaneous robbery caused by a video of an Obama speech.

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    • Leveraction3030
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:36pm

      In Detroit I would imagine the high school yutes are between 21 and 30. It takes them that long to get through the public school system. So I am sure it was a legally purchased firearm purchased from an FFL Dealer and a complete Universal Background check was run. I just hope the young man did not violate the 7 shot clip rule or his dead butt will be charged with violating Holder policy.
      This could be a teaching moment in the Detroit schools Monday. They should remind all the yutes that their schools are gun free zones and these were misguided young men who made a mistake.
      After the investigation it was found they were NRA members and no yutes should join such a bad organization. If they had been upstanding members of the local chapter of Ofurhers Muslim Brotherhood club this would have never happened.

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    • Kalshion
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 5:01pm

      @OlefromMN

      The Gun Free Zone Act is also illegal, as it violates the 2nd Amendment. Thus, I see no problem with people carrying their guns when the very act telling them not to is unconstitutional to begin with. Thta, and more and more parents, teachers, and kids are starting to go to school with guns now ever since the Elementary school shooting – and ever since Obama and his anti-gun cronies started trying to ban weapons.

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    • EdtheK
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 5:46pm

      the teen armed with a gun was , posthumously, one of the perps, not the students.

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  • klatoo
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:20pm

    The Federal government isn’t against guns. God knows they have enough of them. No, the federal government is against you owning a gun. It interferes with their redistribution of wealth plan which criminals play a vitally important part. The coach obviously refused to go along with the plan.

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    • Truth1776
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:47pm

      You speak truth.

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    • Smokey_Bojangles
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 11:09pm

      The Government has no interest in ending street violence and black on black crime, That is how they justify their huge police budgets,police state,police unions,tanks,hand grenades etc.
      The Government is only interested in disarming “We The People…”

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:17pm

    A good rule of thumb, stay away from anything named for Martin Luther King after dark.

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    • stealthseesall
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:57pm

      @GONZO ..You said it all !!

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    • shadownmss
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 4:00pm

      It took me five minutes to stop laughing……..sad but not bad advice at all.

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    • RetiredArmyColonel
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 6:06pm

      OMG!!! GONZO…. I’d be on the lookout for a black suburban. :>)

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    • billjac
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 7:15pm

      That statement is the closest thing to an iron law I have ever read. Excellent analysis in few words!

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 7:27pm

      GONZO, Doesn’t that make you SOL to do anything after dark there in Atlanta?

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    • sandy21957
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 8:06pm

      In ten years, you’ll be able to say the same thing about things named after Obama.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 8:18pm

      Gonzo..Sad it has to be that way, but YOU speak the TRUTH..
      obama will keep it this way for the next four years, useful idiots..
      these chicago thugs in the WH have it down to a science……

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    • AlaskaBob
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 8:56pm

      Martin Luther King – Drew Medical Center was shut down. Such lousy institutions smear his name and his message. He would be an “Uncle Tom” to the Left if alive today. He wanted true integration…. now the test is to be “black enough”…. the Leftest Blacks want segregation.

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  • KalanVA
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:14pm

    New support group: GWG = Grandparents with Guns.

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    • TruthTalker
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:25pm

      Wait a minute.. Isn’t it against the law to rob someone at gunpoint? How could this have even happened?

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  • dodgedart1966
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:04pm

    In Detroit? How could this be?
    One thug dead instead of 3 innocents.
    How long before his mother comes out and proclaims “He was trying to turn his life around”?

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    • hatchetjob
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:42pm

      And, “he was such a good boy”, blah, blah, blah….. Little by little the trash is being taken out.

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    • pyeatte
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 10:37pm

      He was turning his life around. He was trying to become a successful thug – didn’t make it – so sad.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:04pm

    Al Sharptoungue is already on his hoverround , wheelin his way to the Ex-Motor City.

    50 Shades of Trayvon?

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:02pm

    Good for him, those girls were blessed to be with someone WITH A GUN who could and did protect them. Take that stupid news channels and foolish president who has guards for HIS kids.

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  • katie5
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:02pm

    Everyone capable should have their CPL and always carry. It is first the individuals responsibility to protect oneself.

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  • rosie1000
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:00pm

    Good for the coach to have the guts to defend kids from lowlifes.Too bad someone had to die but it was their own choice to do so by choosing to attack another human being. That is the realization people need to have: you attack me, I fight back by all means necessary. The more people that are armed, the more deterrent there will be for the thugs.

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:00pm

    W0OT! Another bites the dust, another one gone. Good on ya granny!

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  • VetMike
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:00pm

    I’m applying to be a reserve police officer. Liberals would rather have all three of these folks dead rather then see any mugger denied his right to rob someone.

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  • geminicontender
    Posted on February 2, 2013 at 1:57pm

    The way it should be!!!

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    • redfish52
      Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:05pm

      I hope my eyesight and trigger finger as good as this guy’s when I’m 70….I heard he had a great grouping also.

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