You came to the wrong house today.

[shooting again]

So said the man in Bismarck, ND. Just a .22 saved his life but later he said he planned to get a bigger gun with more bullets. Smart people, those North Dakotans.

http://bismarcktribune.com/news/sta...cle_5b50f75c-b907-11e3-86dc-001a4bcf887a.html

 

[Swearengen]

That is one tough, smart man
Shoot three times, returns fire, takes down plates and drives himself to the hospital

 

[traveller]

Mercer county is a pretty rural place. The Sheriffs dept has something like 9 deputies, if you call at night, the deputy may get paged out from his home at the other end of the county. The homeowner could have gutted the guy in his yard and he wouldn't get charged.

Unfortunately, the place is close enough to the oil-patch that all kinds of undesireables start to filter in.

Oh well.

 

[cz27jim]

Imagine if this happened in MD - shooting the guy in the back as he fled. The homeowner would have been arrested for attempted murder, plus assorted civil rights violations for violating the attacker's right to shoot and rob him.

 

[Biggfoot44]

9 deputies is a BIG Dept.

 

[traveller]

9 deputies is a BIG Dept.

Golden Valley Co has 4, Billings Co has 3. Mercer even has a jail and 911 dispatch, some of these small counties just patch 911 to the deputies cellphone.

 

[Doctor_M]

God bless him. Fatty tissue is a defense against gun shots? Who knew? Man, I'm feeling pretty good about myself now!

 

[abean4187]

Best line in the whole story, "I’m too damned old to be shooting at people." Who is he, Roger Murtaugh?

 

[Half-cocked]

"Gegelman said he plans to get himself a bigger gun and more bullets."

Why, why, WHY? No one EVER needs more than 10 bullets! A gun-fearing politician told me so!

 

[chsnprodigy]

Why, why, WHY? No one EVER needs more than 10 bullets! A gun-fearing politician told me so!

Just think if he would of only had 7 in his magazine, he most likely would of been dead. Politicians always know best......

 

[Mooseman]

I like a story with a happy ending.

 

[Kman]

Why, why, WHY? No one EVER needs more than 10 bullets! A gun-fearing politician told me so!

...and if you can't trust a politician, who can you hang?

 

[Alutacon]

Golden Valley Co has 4, Billings Co has 3. Mercer even has a jail and 911 dispatch, some of these small counties just patch 911 to the deputies cellphone.

really. to their cell phones????

 

[dapefley]

Ohhh... You gunna learn today!! You came to the wrong dam house boy...

 

[traveller]

really. to their cell phones????

If the phone comes up as unreachable, it forwards to 'state radio' which is the state patrol dispatch.

Most of the smaller counties have joined forces and operate joint dispatch centers and jails. There may be one jail for 5 counties. Has its own problems. If you only have 1-2 deputies to cover a county at night and they have to make an arrest, one of them is out of commission for 2-3 hrs round-trip to deliver the prisoner to the regional jail.

 

[traveller]

Why, why, WHY? No one EVER needs more than 10 bullets! A gun-fearing politician told me so!

He is in ND. He could have a machine gun if he wanted to (subject to NFA and iirc submission of a copy of the NFA paperwork to the sheriff and state AG).