The armed man who walked into a Missouri Walmart store dressed in body armor and fatigues and was detained at gunpoint by an off-duty firefighter is “lucky he’s alive still” considering the situation he created, a police official said.
The man who is said to be white and in his 20s was detained by the armed firefighter until police arrived at the Walmart Neighborhood Market, police said in a statement. The man in body armor had been seen pushing a shopping cart and recording video of himself on a cellphone, police told NBC affiliate KYTV.
Police were called about a possible active shooter, and the store manager pulled a fire alarm and told people to evacuate, Springfield police Lt. Mike Lucas said.
Technically, he didn’t break any laws but obviously shoppers weren’t entertained with his act. What would you have done - get outta there ASAP, do nothing or shoot him before he shoots you ?
If he didn’t break any laws then why is he “lucky he’s alive still”? He was just exercising his 2nd Amendment rights. This is what hoplophobia looks like.
Took me a moment, but I think it was deleted because it used an unfiltered word on an unapproved context. You can use the word to address Vice President Cheney but not in a pejorative sense.
There is a word that is not filtered in the posts deleted. It isn’t filtered as a matter of convenience to the posters so you can talk about Cheney and Durban and the like. If I filter it, you complain. If I don’t and delete, you complain. Please take your contempt elsewhere.
Figured it would either be Springfield or St. Louis. ■■■■ hole cities, those ones.
Missouri is a Constitutional Carry State. Open carry or concealed, no permit is required.
If he wasn’t looking for trouble, there was no need for that moron to make a scene like that when he could’ve simply carried concealed like the firefighter likely does.
If he was looking for trouble, he was stopped by a good guy with a gun.
If you’re dumb enough to walk into a Wal Mart with a vest and a visible gun less than a week after a recent massacre, you are indeed lucky if some twitchy cop or “good guy with a gun” doesn’t shoot you in the head.
“His intent was not to cause peace or comfort to anybody that was in the business here,” Lucas said. "In fact, he’s lucky he’s alive still, to be honest.
The open carrying of firearms is legal in Missouri, as long as the weapon is not displayed in a threatening manner.
It appears that somehow or another police were able to derive the man’s intent. Probably because of the body armor and multiple weapons carried.
