KCENTV: Michelle Martinez took a chance and punched her way out of an armed robbery early Thursday morning. Now, she and her family are living on edge in a Dallas neighborhood south of Oak Cliff that has them also packing handguns just in case.
“I’m not going to let it get the best of me,” Martinez told WFAA. “But right now I am, because I’m so scared,” she said as she began to cry.
Martinez made an early morning trip, walking across Wilton Avenue to Cowart Elementary School to deliver needed medication to her young son. As she left the classroom in a portable building on the north side of the school, a gray four-door Kia pulled up to the curb. The passenger got out, pulled a ski mask over his face, pointed a handgun in Martinez’s chest and demanded money. more
She would be forgiven by a jury of her peers if she carried without a license and was only going to and from her car to work and home.
It’s the damn fed gun-free zone around schools that would screw her and is the only reason she wasn’t packing at that moment.
Thanks feds – you really know how to screw your people while virtue signaling that your only trying to protect the kids. Pfft
This story should be saved in the file of : Gun laws only take guns away from the good guys and help the criminals.
Oak Cliff used be “the hood.” I don’t know what it is today, but you couldn’t pay me to guard kids without a vest and a fire team if it’s anything like it was 20 years ago.
The two vermin knew she would be unarmed coming out of the school.
Stinking federal Victim Disarmament Zones.
@ Vermin Control
Oak Cliff is a mixed bag. Once an affluent suburb, it still has some pretty places and valuable property.
South Oak Cliff is another story.
I fear my truck breaking down in that area – among others. I stopped by a half-way house once for people released from jail/prison several years ago. I had several bags of decent clothing to drop off.
When I stopped in the mostly empty parking lot – there were about a dozen people spread around just hanging out. As I drove up and exited my truck, every eye was on this one white boy there.
A worker for the mission walked over to me as I started grabbing bags form the back of my truck.
“I’ll handle it from here.”
I helped him load the cart he had and said I didn’t need a receipt. We shook hands and I left. The whole time, I felt the stares of the others in the parking lot. I don’t know what was in their heads but I’m fairly convinced the worker was saving me some trouble with what he did.
P.S. S.O.C. Had some of the best athletes in Dallas when I ran track back in the early 70s. Marvin Crenshaw from S.O.C. held all the records at their local field. We’re talking Olympic-type times in the 1/4 mile, 1/2 mile, and all the relays as anchor. In high school! Pretty intimidating to enter a track meet against the record holder with all those picture in the lobby of him holding the trophies. I still wonder how things turned out for him. He was special.
We beat them ONCE. Only because his teammates knew what they had in Alvin. “Y’all can’t beat us! We have Alvin!” <– Actually heard one of his teammates say that, and I believed it, too. They seemed unbeatable.
They should not have dogged their legs. They put him so far behind the pack, I came in in front of him on my anchor leg in the mile relay. I only ran a 51.8 1/4 mile when he ran 46.5 for his. I was @ 4 seconds ahead of him and we placed 2nd while they came in 6th out of 8 – not even close in track terms.
I hope they learned their lesson that they needed to put all their effort in too. We all loved Alvin. You respect real skill. He deserved better teammates.
Yep, only in a gun free zone.
If you are carrying and they neither
suspect or can tell you are carrying?
Are you carrying?