Hanover Stake Out
Apr/26/08 03:12 PM
This is a pretty funny article about an event that took place in Hanover (MA) recently. Apparently the owner of a catering company had been robbed three weekends in a row. After the Hanover police did nothing about it, he decided to take matters into his own hands. He told his employees he was going away for the weekend, but instead hung out in his store at night, accompanied by his 12-guage shot gun. Well, for the fourth weekend in a row, and intruder showed up. After he saw him steal a bunch of meat, the owner shot four rounds- two into the floor and two into the guys car. The crook got away, but was eventually arrested with the evidence in his car. Turned out he was an employee (now ex-employee I would assume).
Of course, the burglar is now being treated like the victim in this case. And the owner of the store is facing charges for firing his weapon. A hardworking small business owner is now potentially in trouble for protecting his private property that had been intruded upon for the last three weeks despite his pleas for help from the Hanover police. All this turns the attention away from the fact that the perpetrator is a thug. I bet there would be a lot less thugs like him if more business- and home-owners used our 2nd Amendment rights like this caterer did and worked to protect their property and livelihood.
More interesting than the article, though, are the 67 (at this point) comments written by readers about the story. It gives me a little hope as a resident of Communist Massachusetts to see that 90+% of them are in support of the caterer and gun rights in general. I don't have enough space to write a lot of what they said, but many of them are very good points.
Of course, the burglar is now being treated like the victim in this case. And the owner of the store is facing charges for firing his weapon. A hardworking small business owner is now potentially in trouble for protecting his private property that had been intruded upon for the last three weeks despite his pleas for help from the Hanover police. All this turns the attention away from the fact that the perpetrator is a thug. I bet there would be a lot less thugs like him if more business- and home-owners used our 2nd Amendment rights like this caterer did and worked to protect their property and livelihood.
More interesting than the article, though, are the 67 (at this point) comments written by readers about the story. It gives me a little hope as a resident of Communist Massachusetts to see that 90+% of them are in support of the caterer and gun rights in general. I don't have enough space to write a lot of what they said, but many of them are very good points.
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