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This is What Happens to a Disarmed Populace: Windy City Retail Edition

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdAs1qBOO1s

“Quizhpe said he didn’t know he had been shot until his brother-in-law had chased the robbers out of the store with a fire extinguisher and Quizhpe was on the phone calling police. ‘I felt something warm down my leg,’ he said. ‘I lost about a pint of blood.'” That’s Luis Quizhpe, the man with the bat doing his best to fend off two armed robbers shooting at him in his Chicago store. Mayor Rahm and Superintendent McCarthy would no doubt have advised Quizhpe to just empty the till, give the two walking pieces of excrement what they wanted and they’d be on their way. Except, as the video reveals, the gunman in the grey hoodie fired at least one shot at the store owner before he even picked up his Louisville Slugger . . .

The firm believers in the wisdom of strong gun control laws at chicagotribune.com have the report:

“I thought it was a toy, but what made me frightened and really made me angry was when they grabbed my brother-in-law by the neck and they were pointing the gun at him,” Quizhpe, 62, said Wednesday from Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was nursing a leg wound.

“It was like the Fourth of July. Pow, pow, pow,” he said. “Then he was yelling, ‘Kill the (expletive).”

The store owner’s brother helped drive the two doods out the front door with the help of a stool and a fire extinguisher. And this isn’t the first time Quizhpe’s Gifts and Sports has been targeted.

Aida Quizphe said the family has had their share of break-ins in the store they have run for 28 years at 2242 N. Western Ave. Her husband was shot at during a robbery more than a dozen years ago, and someone pointed a gun at her years ago but the gun jammed.

But the dedicated disarmers in Chicago’s and Illionis’ government are still working hard to keep law abiding citizens disarmed, despite a court order directing them to enact concealed carry in the Land of Lincoln. Meanwhile, the law-abiding are easy pickins for criminals who know that, when knocking over a store, there’s little chance of meeting armed self defense.

For Mr. Quizhpe and his brother, we’d suggest a Mossberg 500 and a Glock 19. For Mayor Rahm, Superintendent McCarthy and Speaker Michael Madigan, a liberal application of tar and feathers seem to fit the bill.

[h/t Tyler Kee]

0 thoughts on “This is What Happens to a Disarmed Populace: Windy City Retail Edition”

  1. The video still shot (at the top of the article) shows small mountains in the background and is apparently in Oklahoma. Where in the heck is that?

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  2. You have to admire that man’s spirit though. He fought as hard as he could til they left. If he had better form, I imagine the grey hoodie perp would have had some major head injuries. The stool toss was a nice touch too.

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  3. I’ll go with Glocks and AR-15 because I own multiples of each but my favorite handgun at the moment is an el cheapo Rossi (AKA Taurus Tracker) .44 Magnum with 2″ barrel. It’s just a hoot to shoot!

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    • you mean the one that needs to be clicked off multiple times to actually stop? and clicks on again when commenting……

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  4. How can anyone watch this, and the dozens of videos like it and say that gun control keeps guns out of the hands of criminals?

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  5. “Why anyone needsht to haave one of theshe military, ashtalt-shtyle weaponsth…”
    There really ARE alien entities among us!!!

    HEY! SQUITLER!!! You don’t NEED that military-style mouth of yours. Just sayin.

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  6. It’s a shame their government won’t let them have the weapons they need to survive. The perp kept attacking. Kudos to them for not giving up. They’re alive because of their fortitude.

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  7. I wish everyone here (and everywhere) would stop using the term “Gun Control.” This mess is not about gun control it is about Civilian Disarmament. We accept the terms of the statists instead of using the terms that would help advance the cause of liberty. Refer to this as Civilian Disarmament proposals. Gun control is what I do when I am following the rules of gun safety or when they are in the safe.

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  8. Lets see if the perp is charged with attempted murder with a firearm during commision of a felony/posession of fire arm by prohibited person/assult with a deadly weapon (his accomplice)
    or
    misdemeanor discharge of gun within city limits, released on his own recog.

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  9. In New York, the guy with the bat would have been arrested for committing self-defense in the third degree.

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  10. Show this video to the next person who says “just give them the money, they won’t hurt you. Using a gun just makes things worse.”

    These perps were not afraid to kill for a few bucks, and even came back to finish the job in cold blood. And they call pro 2A people heartless.

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  11. This is exactly why I have never applied for a CCW license and never will. How many stories have we heard lately about he government violating these people’s privacy?

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  12. This pisses me off. The civilian disarmers should be ashamed of themselves, but they have no shame. Trying to remove (and succeeding in many cases) the right to self defense should be a criminal offense. This video also proves another thing – “high capacity” magazines are necessary for defense. The perp got off at least 5 rounds without stopping the defender so more than 5 rounds are needed for stopping power with just one opponent. I have the natural right to choose how I defend myself, my loved ones and my property. Everyone should be assured of that right. Civilian disarmament laws and their proponents should be treated as an assault – that is criminally. I hope this store owner sues the pants off the elected officials who legislated these laws.

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  13. They’re wearing the hats wrong. It should be tilted forward so that it covers the eyes and you can’t see out from under it. R. Lee Ermey has several reasons to yell at them. He should do that.

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  14. Croley was my admin law prof in law school. His wife got appointed to the Mich Supreme Court recently. He is a wonk, but he is also a very strong liberal.

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  15. Me thinks the politicians are getting a reminder that the power stems from the people, not the dirtba…… I mean politicians. King George learned it.

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  16. Elephants were removed from the ungulate classification in the mid-20th century. Hippos and rhinos are ungulates, but elephants are not.

    There. Said it. And .45s suck, too.

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  17. So let me understand this. If I hear voices telling me to do bad things, and get help, the man will take my gun away. But if I don’t get help, I can keep the gun? I know I’m not smart like our politicians (Palin and Bachman come to mind), but isn’t this the reverse of the desired effect?

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