Posted on May 15, 2015
Common thief vs. Iraq veteran - What would you have done?
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Liquor Store Clerk Iraq Veteran Turns Tables On Would Be Robber
Over the weekend 54-year-old Jon Lewis Alexander was working at Beer:30 Liquor Store in Marionville, Missouri when a man entered the store, pulled a gun on h...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5_ea1yCwqo
What is your reaction to this video? With recent public buzz about violent crime and gun ownership, would you say this clerk represents the exception amongst gun owning veterans?
What is your reaction to this video? With recent public buzz about violent crime and gun ownership, would you say this clerk represents the exception amongst gun owning veterans?
Posted 9 y ago
Responses: 169
Awesome reaction to a potentially lethal situation. No blood was shed that day.
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I'm not going to lie I have a CCL and if that happened to me I would of pulled the trigger. With the way things are going down around the country now a day if you pull on me and I get mine out, I will pull the trigger every time. Scouts Out
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SGT Samuel Reed
Assessing the situation is the best thing to do. Pulling the trigger isn't always the best decision.
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SPC Sean Coughlin
No it's not always the best answer. But what's to keep him from doing this somewhere else or to someone less trained. Not sure how I'd react till actually in this situation. But pulling the trigger definitely get one more piece of trash off the streets and saves the tax payers some money
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That is too cool! That was well played and you could tell he executed that "Battle Drill" a few times. On a side note, I recruited in Marionville, MO in 93/94... I think I know the store.
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Got to say RallyPoint Team, I think this man did the job well. No, he is not the exception among the veteran gun owning population. I know many who would have had a similar reaction. Fortunately this veteran had been a military police officer.
I guess the old cadence of "If I had a low IQ I could be an MP too" no longer holds true, at least not for this particular individual. Job well done.
I guess the old cadence of "If I had a low IQ I could be an MP too" no longer holds true, at least not for this particular individual. Job well done.
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I'm surprised he let the guy walk away. I'm not saying he should have shot him (especially since he disarmed the would-be robber) but if I were in the same situation and had the same level of training and experience as this man did I think I would have held him there until the police arrived. Because who knows if the wanna-be thug had other guns and decided to rob another store? It would have been one less criminal out on the street.
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Cpl Paul Smith
I thought the same thing. Let's end this violence, one robbery at a time! It has been shown that armed response can cause future robbers to shoot first and take the money later, instead of armed robbery with no casualties. It's hard to know what is the proper action, as not all stores have armed clerks.
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CW4 Kelvin Holt
I agree, disarm and hold for the police if able, sure he would have been 100% justified with sending a controlled pair of hollow-points into the crook's head or chest but this worked out well for all involved . . . EXCEPT for the next person to face that armed crook.
The crook wasn't ready that time, and because he survived and walked away it became a training event, perhaps he'll be a little better prepared next time and the store clerk will be on the losing end. Incompetence was rewarded here, and criminal activity was delayed at best.
The crook wasn't ready that time, and because he survived and walked away it became a training event, perhaps he'll be a little better prepared next time and the store clerk will be on the losing end. Incompetence was rewarded here, and criminal activity was delayed at best.
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I would have done the same thing pulled out the side arm and told him to leave ASAP
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