| Cleveland Shooting Justified Use of Force |
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| Written by Jeff Garvas | |
| Monday, 23 April 2007 | |
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Damon Wells, a concealed handgun licensee from the Cleveland area, will not be charged with a crime after using his firearm to defend his life this past weekend. Prosecutors in Cleveland have decided that the 25 year old was justified and acted in self-defense. Despite the Plain Dealer calling this the first time a criminal has died at the hands of a concealed handgun license holder in Ohio we believe it is the third case. The first took place in Warren, Ohio when a pizza shop owner was ambushed in an abandoned home. The second took place in Hamilton County when a license holder shot and killed a young teen who was stealing or carjacking his car. In this most recent case two teenagers in the Kinsman area approached Wells Saturday on his porch and drew a gun. Well responded with deadly force, sending one of the teens running and the other stumbling to his untimely demise. The deceased attempting to hold Wells up was just fifteen years old. Mayor Frank Jackson's gun control did nothing to disarm Arthur Buford, and nothing to protect Damon Wells. Ironically, opponents of concealed carry such as Toby Hoover are looking past the fact that fifteen year old Buford pointed a loaded gun at someone and threatened their life and trying to begrudge the fact that concealed carry saved a life in this case. From cleveland.com: Toby Hoover, of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, said she had not heard of any other fatal shooting involving a concealed-carry permit holder,To follow Toby's logic you'd have to come to the conclusion that a fifteen year old "kid" surviving a robbery he started is somehow superior to the idea that a law abiding 25 year old contributor to society survived with his life. A life where he will have to deal with the fact that, in a split second decision, he was forced to choose between the life of a fifteen year old thug and that of his own. |