Bungie Staffer Pulls Gun On Shooting Suspect, Makes Citizens Arrest
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http://kotaku.com/5830253/bungie-staffer-brings-down-shooting-suspect-with-handcuffs
Looks like Bungie makes sure to feed their employee's their Wheaties every morning. That's some balls! Certainly gave me a chuckle this morning... I would love to see security camera footage of this, or something. He's just so nonchalant in the interview too.
Can you imagine being the first officer on the scene and finding the perp already cuffed and sitting on the ground. LOL.
Looks like Bungie makes sure to feed their employee's their Wheaties every morning. That's some balls! Certainly gave me a chuckle this morning... I would love to see security camera footage of this, or something. He's just so nonchalant in the interview too.
Can you imagine being the first officer on the scene and finding the perp already cuffed and sitting on the ground. LOL.
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One question though......why would you just happen to be carrying handcuffs?
That's awesome, regardless.
Yet another reason to fear the IT guy.
Same reason people have huge wallet chains I suppose. Though it sounded like the cuffs had sentimental value, being his pappa's and all.
Nice to see a proper citizens arrest though, well done
Well done, Master Chief. Well done!
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In the real world(generally) people arent that up for revenge. Too much hassle to much risk, besides this guy probably wont be getting out for a while, hard to hold onto revenge for that long.
HAHAHA!
I dunno, look at Ganon in the legend of Zelda, he's always getting screwed over by Link and constantly holds on to the hope of getting his own back! :shifty:
In the case of someone fleeing, I personally would've likely let them flee and tended to guy who was wounded.
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Come on man, im all for a round of 'people who carry guns around all day are fucking crazy', but in this case everything clearly turned out perfectly. He witnessed a shooting, managed to intervene in a way that did not result in any more shots being fired, and turned in a dangerous, armed, fleeing man to the authorities.
I'd much rather hear that a guy drew a gun to de-escalate a situation than that a guy drew a gun to win a shootout.
This is fucking badass, and stories like this are what gives me any respect for people who carry guns or train for self defense in any way. No lives lost, no wounds inflicted, just a calm, controlled application of force.
And yeah handcuffs are weird to carry, but many men carry hunting/combat knives, which are a significantly less appropriate thing to have on your person at all times. Better to prevent a fight than to win one.
That right there constitutes self-defence.
I mean what are you gonna do wait until he's ACTUALLY POINTING the gun at you/yours to go for your piece?
Nahh brah, nah.
Yes, this time it turned out that way.
As I read it, the man was already in the process of fleeing. Bringing another gun into the situation I feel hardly de-escalates things, by that point. Again - it turned out well in this case, but it could've just as easily wound up with the coin face down.
If he'd dropkicked the guy into submission, I'd think it was pretty badass as well. If the bad guy had actually pointed the gun and threatened him or tried to rob him, I'd think it was badass. But I read this as 3 citizens with guns, the third of which was lucky enough to not have had to fire. If he had had to fire, this would've been a shootout between 3 people in a parking lot rather than 2.
Exactly. That's why I think, when the fight's already over, better to tend to the wounded, call the cops (who can probably find the fleeing man - the wounded guy could probably identify him) and not possibly incite more aggression with another gun.
He said he did it to protect his neighborhood. If I were in his neighborhood, I wouldn't be feeling any safer right now. What if this guy simply hears shots, sees someone fleeing the scene - is he going to pull a gun on them? What if it was someone getting ROBBED who was running from the shots?
Now that didn't happen - it's just an example situation, and I don't know the guy. All I'm saying is in my opinion, you pull your gun when you HAVE to - not to play hero.
Edit: I guess I'm just not much for guns. You put a gun in someone's hands and they know they've got power over another individual, you've got life and death with a single movement of your finger. When you stick a gun in someone's face, you're pretty much saying "I can kill you right now, by the way." Maybe that's not a serious matter to some folks, I guess in this day and age of Counter-Strike and Battlefield it's only to be expected. But for me, it's something to take very, VERY seriously.
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I agree with you man, but responsible use of force stops fights while minimizing injury. So few gun enthusiasts in america have the problem solving, people skills, sense of responsibility, and quick thinking to do something like this.
People are going to shoot people, idiots are going to play the hero, and every once in a while someone is going to do something extremely professional and smart. Why shouldn't we celebrate the few who AREN'T jackasses?
Your individual points seem pretty unfair. it happened this way THIS time because of the decisions this individual made in this exact situation. I'm not saying everyone should pull guns on every running man they see, this guy made a very good judgement call at the time. And the fact that the man had pocketed his gun and started to get away from the place where he'd just SHOT SOMEONE before the cops come doesn't mean he's no longer a threat to people around him -- you've played gta, come on
People do what you described in your hypothetical situation and pull guns irresponsibly, and it's horrible and in my mind the only good argument for more gun control -- but that is not what this man did, and it's unfair to compare him to them. The whole point of only drawing a weapon when it improves the situation in some way is to do what this man did and not what your hypothetical dangerous idiots would do.
Danr, there ARE some not psychopathic reasons to carry a weapon. Being the most powerful person in the room empowers you to take some risks that would be very silly for a unarmed person, like stopping to talk to someone who asks you for help in a bad neighborhood. Helping people stopped by the side of the road. etc.
I've met very few who use their ccw status for anything other than to make themselves feel like a badass, but there are good things that would be foolish and dangerous to do unarmed in the average american city.