Some people really are stupid. I mean, I’m not just talking about ordinary, average, every day stupid. I’m not even talking about typical anti-2A rhetoric level stupidity.
Well, on second thought, maybe I am talking about that same level of stupidity. After all, how else would you characterize a situation where a criminal threatens violence against a victim and, then, goes back again as if the outcome will be the same.
Hint: It didn’t turn out the same. Dave Urbanski writes,
The male who sped away [from the attempted traffic stop based on concerns that the vehicle was stolen] abandoned the vehicle near Justin Road West and ran to a home on Oxbow Road near Herlong Road where a home invasion took place, the station reported.
Police said the male entered the home through the garage, pointed a gun at the homeowner’s head, and ran away after his carjacking attempt was unsuccessful, WJXT reported.
However, the male returned to the residence and approached the homeowner again, the station said.
But this time, the homeowner was armed, WJXT added.
Dukes noted to the station that the homeowner “expressed fear, told him to stay away, the suspect kept advancing toward him.” WJXT said the homeowner shot the male in the leg.
The suspect was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the station said.
And this all happened in Jacksonville, Florida. Lucky for this guy that he didn’t try this foolishness in Polk County, Florida. He wouldn’t have been nearly so lucky as to have only been shot in the leg (see here for more about that).
But how stupid do you have to be to think that, after pulling a gun on an innocent person, they’ll let you do that to them again?
That wasn’t just gall. That was monumental idiocy.