good guys with guns 09-21-09

by permission from Stephen P. Wenger
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Oops, Wrong House: A North Syracuse [NY] resident shot and killed two
Syracuse men after they kicked in the front door to his home and
entered early Saturday morning in what police are calling an apparent
home invasion. Dead are Thomas R. Lashomb, 23, of South Midler Avenue,
and Wade A. Brown, 26, of West Matson Avenue, Officer Jeffrey Tripp,
of the North Syracuse police, said. Jeffrey J. Bush, 22, shot both men
with a pistol-grip shotgun as Bush and others struggled with Lashomb
and Brown inside the house at 115 Elm St., Tripp said. During the
struggle, Bush's 2-year-old son slept in another room… Both dead men
have a criminal history… North Syracuse police consider the shooting
deaths to have been in self-defense. No charges were filed by North
Syracuse police, but Tripp said that any charges would be up to the
district attorney's office. "If the district attorney's office feels
they need to, they will put it before a grand jury," Tripp said…

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/update_police_say_north_syracu.html
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Oops, Wrong Driver: Police said a man acted in self-defense on
Saturday when he shot a 24-year-old who tried to rob him at gunpoint.
"Little did this kid know that this 72-year-old man was a licensed CCW
(carrying a concealed weapon) carrier and he produced his own firearm
and defended himself because he was in fear of his life," said Sgt.
John Sullivan of the Dayton [OH] Police Department. Sullivan said the
24-year-old cut in front of the 72-year-old in the area of Brooklyn
Avenue in Dayton. He said the 24-year-old got out of his vehicle with
an assault rifle, pointed it at the 72-year-old and tried to rob him.
That's when the 72-year-old pulled out his weapon and shot the robber
twice, once in the abdomen and once in the arm. The robber is expected
to survive his injuries. Police didn't expect to file charges against
the 72-year-old. They said the attempted robber would face a charge of
aggravated robbery. (It sounds as though the 72-year-old man with the
handgun was bit more "willing" than the 24-year-old man with the
rifle.)

http://www.whiotv.com/news/21012459/detail.html
http://www.examiner.com/x-2206-Cleveland-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m9d21-Acute-failure-of-the-victim-selection-process