The family of a Chicago man gunned down during a robbery attempt are calling for his shooter, a concealed weapon permit-holder, to be prosecuted for the shooting. The Washington Post is helping to further that effort, suggesting the failed robbery could even be a Halloween prank gone horribly wrong.
Police say Saturday night Reginald Gildersleeve walked into the small bodega Agencia Mexicana while wearing a mask andannounced a holdup, whipping out what appeared to be gun. Moments later he was gunned down by an unnamed patron. It was later discovered that Gildersleeve’s gun was a paintball gun.
How many shots would not be excessive?
“Armed Robber ‘ s Family Complains He Was Shot Too Many Times.”
And I say the family doesn’t have enough brain cells.
That family is replete with feces.
“Miller then says the robbery was all one big i side job, because Gildersleeve was reportedly a fired employee of Agencia Mexicana and knew where the owner kept his money and gun.”
FIFY, asshole.
Two to the chest and one to the head. Is that too many?
Story wouldn’t be complete with the gratuitous “he was trying to turn his life around.”
They should be able to wound first, kill next. He didn’t deserve to get shot multiple times.”
You shoot until the threat is neutralized. The shooter has no responsibility to pick and choose where to shoot or how many times to shoot. Threats don’t get neutralized by shooting a hand or a leg. You always take the best odds shot – center mass – and keep shooting until there is no more threat. Ideally try to place subsequent shots about 6 inches from the previous to have the threat receive more pain.
It’s also illegal to conceal carry a paintball gun. To “whip it out” with a mask on in itself is illegal. Hence brandishing and getting shot.
Shoot until you’re out of ammo
We should” redistribute” the bullets to the whole family so they all get a “fair share”.
Its the progressive thing to do ya know.
Normally I don’t look, with that nice olde British name, had to.
I just wanted to berate a dumb white man, foiled again.
Yep, think Thirdtwin nailed it.
Any guesses on where this family of clowns fall on the Bell Curve?
“…wound first…” Stop, is it possible that this much stupid even exists?
LOL! Stupid criminal, in Illinois it is ILLEGAL for a concealed carry permit holder to carry a BB gun or paintball gun concealed. So why did you think you were doing a good thing by stuffing a paintball gun down your drawers?
If I ever pull a gun from concealment, I am shooting until I no longer feel threatened, that’s it. I’m not looking to graze or wound, because those are the shots that could hit innocent people. It’s too difficult to try and hit a 3-4″ wide kneecap especially under duress. Instead I’m going for a double tap to center mass and planning on a mag dump with a reload.
That could be a fatal error if your adrenalin-fueled tunnel vision has kept you from seeing that there’s more than one threat. If it takes one whole mag to neutralize one threat, so be it, but that’s why you carry more than one mag, right?
Mr. Gildersleeve’s last words: “Damn! I fucked up!”
I think too many people have seen too many cowboy TV shows and movies where the “good” guy would shoot the gun out of the hand of the “bad” guy.
Too many people are unfamiliar with firearms.
THAT is an educational challenge that needs to be met!
Next year if I’m flying on an airliner on Halloween and I hold a little briefcase (with a disassembled radio clock) and yell bomb! will the Washington Post come to my defense after I’m restrained and arrested after the plane lands?….. just asking?
Actually, he did shoot him too many times. Bullets are expensive!
I’d say that the shooter knew how to use a gun exactly as it should be. The inability to accept responsibility for their actions is genetic in liberals.
If someone breaks into my house, the time for talking is over. I’m not going to argue with the robber if he wants his big toe or pinkie shot off first. He will rot in my huge compost box in the backyard and my humus in the spring will grow many veggies. Those tomatoes should be especially red and delish.
IMHO it wasn’t enough. However, let’s rejoice over the fact that he will no longer be breeding or breathing.
“You just took a brother, you just took a father from a lot of people.”
Cromartie wannabe?
Dear Family of an idiot.
Your Idiot family member was not trying to ‘turn his life around’
He was illegally attempting to rob a business, using the threat of death from a firearm.
The fact that it is a toy is irrelevant. He brandished it in the same manner you would if it were a real weapon.
The people he waved it at were not in on his secret, (the secret that its not a real weapon) they were faced with a situation indistinguishable from from a real threat to their lives. They felt they were in danger of being killed.
Your family member was an idiot and he died an idiot’s death, and as the story unwinds, it looks like he will be mourned by idiots as well.
If memory serves, I believe it’s “The Great Gildersleave.”
I’m sure the armed robber would have applied he momma’s standards to his robbery victims.
I agree with the family. One shot to the head is sufficient enough.
Shoot until the target catches fire and/or changes shape.
Chicago bans metal CCW bullets, allows only rubber bullets 3…2…1..
Here lies Reginald Gildersleeve shot four times by a 44 no more no less!
But then again, he has a good shot at the Darwin Award…
Too many bullets? Nah… I say that was money well spent.
“Never advance cheerfully on your late opponent without reloading. You may have used your last round, and he may not be properly dead and still spiteful.” Major Hugh Pollard