I BE
“MEAN MUGGIN YOU!”
(Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel)
(Frazer
Chronicle)
I’ll
admit it…..I simply couldn’t turn down an opportunity to once again show why
people having a license to conceal-carry firearms is not only ridiculous, its
down-right dangerous. There was a story on the front page of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this
morning, (Saturday, July 13, 2013) that at first was funny and stupid, but after
consideration…..was dangerous as hell.
The
incident involved two men, a black and a white…..and of course two different
stories, however, one thing is crystal clear, shots were fired in a rolling
exchange of gunfire that involved up to and including 100 rounds of ammunition.
It was a miracle that nobody was hit during the exchange either inside the cars
or innocent bystanders.
However
one thing did became clear, neither Eric Adamany, nor Roy Scott were very good
shooters…..nobody was hit during the gun battle which lasted for five-mile in
an on again, off again encounter. I guess we should be thankful for small
favors!
This
story has all the ingredients of a Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood movie, I
expected a few “make my day” to be thrown around, or at least a “you feelin
lucky punk…..well do ya?” Sadly these two combatants simply wanted to shoot at
one another without hitting their targets.
The
encounter started on the surface streets of Milwaukee and ended up on
Interstate 43, between Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin. The encounter ended
when Adamany on the south side of the city flagged down a patrol
officer.
Meanwhile,
Roy Scott, several blocks away from Adamany was telling police officers that he
was carrying a .40 caliber Ruger handgun. Both men admitted that they had been
in a gun battle, but, are you ready for this…..both said that “the other fired
the first shot,” wow, can you believe
that?
LET’S
SORT THIS THING OUT
Both
men were arrested after admitting that they had both fired their licensed firearms at
one-another, luckily missing their targets. The scenario related to
investigating officers…..by Eric Adamany is as follows:
“Adamany
said that he had just left the Taco Bell near S. 14th and W. Burnham
streets and pulled over to send a text message when a gold Dodge Magnum pulled
up. A passenger in the gold car said, “What are you looking at white boy?”
showed a chrome handgun and fired at Adamany’s car, hit the driver’s side
mirror and then sped off.”
Adamany
told a detective that he reached for his 9mm Beretta handgun immediately, but
the safety was on. Adamany said that he then called 911 and began following the
Dodge as it headed for the freeway and said that someone in the Dodge fired a
few more shots at him. He said the two cars were swerving around other traffic
before the Dodge left the freeway briefly and then re-entered, still heading
north...
According
to Adamany, it was at this point that he began emptying the magazine of his gun, shooting out the back
window of the gold Dodge with his left hand while driving and using his phone
with his right hand. At this point….if what he says is true, I have absolutely
no doubt that Hollywood and the movies are his next destination.
The
return fire from the gold Dodge hit Adamany’s radiator and the car began to
overheat, it was at this point, according to Eric Adamany, he took aim at the
Dodge’s back tires and unloaded several shots which hit their mark. Adamany
said his cell was connected to 911 the entire time and that a recording will
back up his story.
Roy
Scott gives quite a different account of what started the fracas and the five
mile gun battle that ensued. According to Scott, “when a blue car passed him
and a friend and mean mugged
him and flashed a black handgun,” he, Scott, grabbed his gun and displayed it
before speeding away.
Soon
the blue car was chasing him, Scott said, firing shots…..so I “fired back out
of my driver’s window, pointing backwards over his shoulder with his right hand
while steering with his left. I’ll tell you what, if Adamany isn’t signed to
act in at least car chases, Roy Scott sure should be.
Scott
finally exited I 43 because all of his tires had been shot out by the blue car
and Eric Adamany, when the car rolled to a stop, both Scott and his passenger
jumped out of the gold Dodge and ran away because Adamany was still shooting.
Adamany
said that “he first took off after the gold Dodge because he thought it was the right thing to do,” I kept
thinking “what about the next person, what if he didn’t have a gun.” Adamany
also opinioned that he felt that maybe “Scott
and his passenger where looking for a random person to shoot.” Honestly!
AND
EVERYBODY WEIGHED IN
One
of the neatest parts of writing a blog is the fact that the writer can offer
his opinion because…..it’s expected, and anyways I don’t care what you think of
my opinion. The gun battle was probably the result of several different issues
that came into play…..kind of like a perfect
storm.
Both
men were issued a concealed carry license, and clearly neither should have been
anywhere near the business end of a firearm. Mean-mugging, what in hell does
that mean is it cause for somebody to put a bullet in the other guy’s head?
You
know what some will say, “people kill people, not guns,” and that is true, I
can’t recall ever reading about one guy fingering
another person to death. Fingers do not hurl bullets at another; oh I
suppose that it might be possible for a guy to finger another to death if he
hit a vital organ…..but it’d be a one in a billion chance.
No
without a doubt, these two guys were idiots, with completely messed up
priorities and bizarre reaction to a situation that…..really wasn’t a
situation. Hell, I used to mean mug
people all the time, and the worst I ever got was, who are you looking at?
There
is no way that first Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, and then Nik Clark, President
of Wisconsin Carry Incorporated, a gun rights advocacy group chimed in with
comments on the incident. Barrett when informed by his security staff this past
Friday said that “this has been one of my concerns, (with the concealed-carry
law), that things like road rage could turn out to be like the wild, wild,
west.”
Nik
Clark, a huge NRA advocate said that both “Scott and Adamany actions fell well
outside of any kind of responsible gun owner training.” Clark sited at least
five instances where permit gun holders stopped crimes, or saved a life with
their weapons.
My
take is a bit different than both the mayor, and the gun advocate guy, both are
right, and both are wrong, loaded guns have absolutely no business in the hands
of…..anybody! If somebody mean mugs another, they offended
person should have the right to whack the others lips, not to shoot at him, making
an unsafe situation for everybody
that’s in the area.
Come
on, are you out of your fricken mind, somebody makes a face at another, it’s
like grade school crap, how about considering the source. And then you get the
mayor and some wacko gun rights advocate using the incident for an op-ed, give
me a break already.
Here’s
my solution to the problem of people mad
mugging others…..take the offender into custody, and give him 30 days
in a work release program to clean the runways along the sides of the Milwaukee
treatment plant…..hell, take both parties, the mad mugger, and the recipient and put them side by side
cleaning the treatment facility…..bet it’d work!
HAVE
A NICE DAY!
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