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Exactly, unfortunately, most stories like this get buried and for some "unknown" reason, they are conveniently left off of statistics regarding self defense. They will just be included as another gun violence death.VMI77 wrote:If these kinds of events keep happening armed robberies are going to decline to the point where the liberals go apoplectic and get more serious about banning guns and concealed carry so they can get those crime rates up again to justify more gun bans.
About 20 people, including several women and children, were at the barbershop on Fort Jackson Boulevard. It sits behind the Applebee’s restaurant on Devine Street, across from the Cross Hill Market that houses Whole Foods.
Bookman said he just wanted to protect the crowd of people inside the shop.
The men forced one of the shop’s customers and one of the barbers to the floor, Bookman said. Then the man with the pistol started taking money out of the pockets of the barbers’ jackets, he said.
When asked for his money, the customer in Bookman’s chair told the suspect with the pistol that his money was at a chair along the wall, Bookman said.
When that suspect turned his back to go search the customers sitting along the wall, Bookman’s client pulled his own gun and fired at the suspect. Bookman, too, pulled his weapon out and shot at the suspect, he said.
“I was thinking we had to keep everybody safe,” he said.
At the first sound of gunshots, the suspect carrying the shotgun turned and ran out the front door, Bookman said. The man with the pistol ran out the back door, down the steps and down the street. He was found and taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later, police said.