Myers, who says he’s a licensed security guard, was sitting in his car Wednesday to conduct “overwatch” while his son trains because “he has seen numerous crimes occur” in the parking lot, according to the probable cause statement.
The surveillance footage shows Myers approach the teens with a gun in his hand, point it directly at them and then move quickly toward them, police said. One of the boys pulls a BB gun out of his pocket, lays it on the ground and extends his arms out as if to show he has nothing in his hands, police said in the document.
“Immediately after … it is clear that he has been shot because he abruptly jerks his body away from Myers and falls to the ground,” the document says.
Myers said that when he first saw the boys, he thought one of them had a “Glock” by his side and that they were about to commit an armed robbery.
He seems to be okay with open carry so I wonder why he thought they were going to commit a robbery.
The 17-year-old shot and killed was identified as Hazrat Ali Rohani
Oh. He was brown.
Also, this guy is why an armed society is absolutely not a polite society. More people carrying around guns means more dipshits carrying them.
He seems to be okay with open carry so I
Open carry for my, but not for thee.
This is like a few months ago, when a gun rights advocate realized that “every body having the right of having guns” also included LGTB and they all lost their shared braincell.
Shithead Tucker Carlson did a piece a while ago fear mongering that militant trans people were arming themselves and that they should not be allowed to.
Conservatives when someone says people should have to go through a psychological examination and be proven to be mentally well to get a gun: 😡
Conservatives when trans people have guns: “Th-they’re mentally ill! They shouldn’t have guns since they aren’t psychologically fit!”
I think it’s cuz they realize constantly having fantasies of someone doing wrong that justifies you to shoot them and being extremely narcissistic, irrationally hateful towards certain groups, and paranoid makes them unfit to handle a weapon.
That being said, I like oppressed groups being able to arm themselves, and I don’t trust the conservatives who have run where I live for centuries to enforce gun laws equally, so I prefer to keep my way-too-lenient gun laws… since I’m moving to a large urban area soon though, the only thing I’ll need a rifle to defend against is the landlord
Ronald Reagan and the Repubs when black people are holding firearms.
Ronald Reagan and the Repubs when black people are holding firearms.
https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act
That’s because they’re into guns, not the right to self defense.
Oh. He was brown.
Was there any doubt?
Behold, Libertarians and 2nd Amendment nutters: Your “good guy with a gun”. Aren’t you proud of yourselves?
What do you expect them to say? That they’re proud of this guy? Even though he’s clearly a madman?
I know IRL gun nuts, and none of them would identify with this person. Also, none of them subscribe to the fallacy/straw-man of a “good guy with a gun”. The ones who carry concealed would remind you that they are carrying for themselves, not for you. If you find an active shooter in a mall, you can count on them… to run away.
Skillful gun nuts know that shooting defensively is never worth the legal hassle unless it saves your life (or a family member’s life).
The shooter in this article is nothing like any of the gun nuts I’ve ever met. This shooter is another Kyle Rittenhouse, someone anxious for a chance to kill a person and get away with it under the excuse of defense.
I could be considered a gun nut myself but I will not pretend that this behavior is some abnormal outlier. There are plenty, plenty of American gun owners who think like this man does, they just haven’t had the opportunity for their malformed amygdala to get someone killed.
You mention Rittenhouse but he’s a gun culture hero. Zimmerman and the like, all heroes. People who get to use their gun to lay down the law like the Earp posse are generally seen as heroes when they don’t completely fuck up like this guy, they’re not shunned as short-sighted and reckless.
A set of excellent counterpoints. I’d also point out that “gun nut” is quite different than “2nd Amendment nutter”. You’re into guns. Maybe the mechanics, maybe the design aspect, maybe you enjoy shooting as a hobby, maybe all of the above and more. That’s fine, if you’re also a responsible gun owner who secures their weapon, does not leave it loaded when off your person, does not point it at something they don’t intend to destroy, and so on and so forth.
A “2nd Amendment nutter” thinks the 2nd Amendment absolves them of responsibility.
Also important to note the difference between all varieties of nuts and acorns, which are natural predators of gun nuts.
At least the ones that are cops…
So, you know responsible gun owners - note I didn’t mention them. I’m happy they exist. But you don’t know every gun owner, or even a significant fraction of them, and if you believe nobody with a gun subscribes to the “good guy with a gun” fallacy then you’re delusional.
Yes, that’s what I expect. And then for the shooter to appear on podcasts and political rallies
I know IRL gun nuts, and none of them would identify with this person.
Maybe not, but when they resist any and all legislation to control access to guns, don’t support mandatory training, red flag laws, etc, they accept that people like this can legally get them. That’s an acceptable tradeoff for them. Maybe your gun nut friends support reasonable legislation, it’s possible I suppose.
Ultimately this is no true scotsman territory I think.
This shooter is another Kyle Rittenhouse, someone anxious for a chance to kill a person and get away with it under the excuse of defense.
Wow, tell me you don’t know anything about the Kyle Rittenhouse story without saying it directly, lmao.
I love how the Rittenhouse story has become such an effective litmus test to easily distinguish between honest left-wingers/progressives, and ones who are either gullible enough to swallow the narrative that is clearly disproven by all of the evidence (up to and including publicly-available direct video evidence) and testimony, or malicious and dishonest enough to cling to said narrative out of solidarity for their political ‘team’, knowing that it is categorically false.
This is “licensed security guard” with a gun.
Just diet cop.
Hahaha no, he’s not even a “diet” cop (but I love that term), though he clearly fuckin thinks he is. I actually took a security guard training course when I was a teenager, and this motherfucker did everything they tell you not to do. If he saw a suspected threat, he should have called the cops and gotten to safety, according to the training. Even with a gun, you’re not supposed to use it. We got that training because guards who can wear firearms get paid more, and the agency training is would make more on us if we had our certs.
It was just middle-manager levels of power tripping, with a gun.
No, no, if we had removed all regulations, like the libertarians want, this gentleman would have voluntarily formed a non-aggression pact with the teens and not shot any. The real problem is the regulations and laws preventing him from forming a pact. If we remove all laws and taxes it will work.
Carries a gun
Violently terrified of others carrying guns
This guy was never not going to murder someone.
Isn’t that the main argument? “I have a gun because you have a gun… And they want guns because we have guns”. It’s rednecks version of “assured mutual destruction”.
The insidious part is a lot of people who don’t want guns end up getting them because those who want them have them.
Seems like a damn good reason to get a poverty pony.
Wow, the article even has a section detailing why the boys were there with BB guns:
The two surviving teens told police that they were at the store to return or exchange Hazrat Ali Rohani’s BB gun because he was having some issues with it, according to the police report. One of them also said that he had his own BB gun with him and brought it along so employees could check out a “magazine issue” he was having.
Myers straight up murdered the kid. Fortunately the article also points out he was arrested and the video evidence shows clear 2nd degree manslaughter, so he’s going to jail, losing his guns, and most likely won’t watch his kid grow up. His kid has a chance to grow up without a bad influence in his life now, so that’s good.
It’s not the BB gun that got the kid killed. He literally put the gun on the ground and had his hands up.
It’s because the “security guard” is a stupid, trigger-happy moron.
I agree, but for clarification it was a different teen whom he shot, who still had his BB gun.
There were 3 teens, two with BB guns. The first dropped his and was on the ground, straddled by Shooter McFuckhead when the second, still standing, was shot.
Thank god there was a “good guy with a gun” there. Otherwise nobody would have died!
Cool. Killed a kid because no fucking reason.
“The 17-year-old shot and killed was identified as Hazrat Ali Rohani by Kent-Meridian High School Principal David Radford, according to the Kent Reporter.”
And from another article:
"According to court documents, Myers said he “had a duty to act to stop the individuals from hurting someone innocent and to protect his son who was at the location next door to Big 5 Sporting Goods.” "
…and …
"Myers reiterated to detectives that the teens would not follow his commands. It should be noted that Myers is not a uniformed law enforcement officer, and they did not need to follow his commands. " source
…and…
“Myers said he thought he saw a teen reach for something in his waistband, so he fired multiple times. According to court documents, he stood over the teen on the ground and continued to fire.”
So Main-Character-Syndrome middle aged guy was pointing his gun and the teenager wouldn’t obey his commands, so decided to live out his vigilante fantasy and murder a teen. Lock this guy up for good.
Jesus Christ, this dude freaked out seeing kids taking a BB Gun into a sporting goods store.
Christ knows what this guy thinks seeing people go to a gun range.
Ranges (that have staff at all) mostly require guns to be cased or holstered, you’ll get kicked out waving one around all willy nilly.
These are also a thing, very real looking BB guns.
Though from the description given in the post it seems the kid was shot after he put the gun down? That’s a bad shoot if so.
This is a bad shooting no matter what. HE approached the kids. He instigated the confrontation. He murdered a child. There is no room for any other narrative here.
It doesn’t matter if it looked like a real gun, or even if it WAS a real gun. He had a real gun too, should he also have been shot for having a real gun that looked like a real gun?
Read the article.
Another kid who also had a BB gun was shot after the first put his down.
I did but I missed the change in kids. How 'bout you learn some interpersonal skills? Rude, rude person. Shame.
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Read the article.
Another kid who also had a BB gun was shot after the first put his down.
Dismissive and rude. Politeness isn’t a crime, feel free to utilize it.
You implied you only read the article summary in the post (since that’s what you used as your reference), and were missing key info that you then made a conclusion based on. I replied with the correct info (at least, according to the article).
I guess I could have been more gentle, but it’s extremely common for people not to read articles they comment on, which is pretty rude and seemed to be the case here.
So I apologize if I came across brisk, although boy, if you’re going to be this sensitive on the Internet you’re going to be fighting about it at some point in almost any discussion.
I went back to the source and read it to check, but still just missed the part where it said the one who got shot wasn’t the first kid. It happens.
And I could’ve just called you a cunt and moved on, but admonishment seemed to be the correct course. Though I see you’ve elected to continue by insinuating me calling you out is “being sensitive” and so I see now I should’ve just chose the “manly” option of insulting you back. My mistake. I forget half the people here are not adults.
Every sporting store in my area specifically states to not bring firearms/guns into the store. I have seen many models of pellet/bb gun that look like real firearms until you handle them.
I’m not defending the actions of the security guard but rules like these could help prevent a similar situation in the future.
Every sporting store in my area specifically states to not bring firearms/guns into the store.
So how do you return one of the guns you can buy in such stores if there’s an issue with it?
You inform an employee and they escort your gun with you in the store. It is also important to note I am in Canada and we have different gun laws.
That’s really not at all how it works in Washington. Or anywhere else in the U.S.
These kids were doing absolutely nothing wrong or even out of the ordinary.
I never claimed they did anything wrong. I propose a set of rules that could help prevent anoter incident.
Your set of rules puts the onus on the victim to avoid getting shot. You’re putting restrictions on the wrong party.
How many deaths would such rules prevent per year versus things like mandated safety lessons and training?
Myers, who says he’s a licensed security guard, was sitting in his car Wednesday to conduct “overwatch” while his son trains because “he has seen numerous crimes occur” in the parking lot, according to the probable cause statement.
Well fucking congrats for contributing to the statistic.
When there’s a shitload of people carrying around hammers there’s going to be a bunch of them trying to find a nail.
The ONLY way this could have been prevented is if the teen had an ACTUAL Gun and shot the Security Guard first! And the ONLY way to prevent THAT situation would be if the Security Guard shot the teen first! There’s LITERALLY no other way we could play this scenario out!
See, it’s this bullshit. This well-intentioned man, actively employed in a fashion that would train him, fucked up, and killed someone’s child. When it comes to the use of deadly force, there is no take-backs, no do-overs, no second chances. How many people handle guns perfectly? Now take that person with perfect gun knowledge and drop them in a situation where they don’t know everything, are only given a small glimpse of what could be a weapon, and BAM, you have a tragic loss of life because in reality, 99% of the time it’s just somebody being stupid, and not doing anything that should result in their death.
well-intentioned
No. The article says
conduct “overwatch”
Meaning off the clock surveillance, for the purpose of engaging in vigilantism.
I meant that, in his mind, he had “good intentions.” That’s where the distinction comes in, as everyone walking around with a gun, is really just waiting for their moment to “save the day.” And when you go looking for something, odds are you’ll find it. And by that I mean that they’ll assume whatever scenario their in IS their moment to “save the day,” as they ultimately ignore contrary evidence and push aside any doubts as to the situations innocence, because they want so badly to be seen as a hero that saved the day.
Dude decided to play cowboy, found himself a situation in which he saw two teenagers with what looked like weapons, ignored the fact that they weren’t attempting to conceal themselves or their “weapons,” ignored their body language and demeanor, ignored his doubts, and killed somebodys child. And that, ultimately, is going to be the fate of most people who walk around with guns, you’re going to end up hurting someone close to you, or someone entirely innocent, and then you’ll spend the rest of your life unable to sleep or rest because you decided deadly force was necessary when it absolutely wasn’t.
A story I’m writing has this as a point. The characters fuss over the trolley problem (renamed in the story), with divisive answers about not getting involved, etc.
The protagonist’s answer to the trolley problem is: To fear it, agonize over it, and not prepare an answer for when it comes. Basically, don’t pre-engineer scenarios in your mind that you’re “ready” to make some fatal, definitive solution for - because probably the biggest issue with the trolley problem is working out every last detail to verify with 100.0000% certainty that you are in a trolley problem with no other solutions.
Right so again, not well intentioned. Delusional.
I just want to step in here and say: you’re arguing over the dumbest thing. Stop trying to pick a fight when you agree with the overall sentiment of what they’re trying to say.
It’s not dumb to call out apologetic framing in commentary. This dude doesn’t need kid gloves, and what other people like him need is a very clear description of what’s right and wrong here. This isn’t a grey area. If you go out and use your personal firearm to police other people, you are a vigilante. If you don’t think you are engaging in vigilantism, you are delusional.
Main stream news should be responsible enough to call a spade a spade in these cases.
The guy saw people with what looked like guns going towards a shopping center that contained, among others, his child in a karate class. If the situation had been real, then his actions could have potentially saved lives, which is what his intention obviously was. I said that phrase specifically to evoke in the readers mind, how they have similarly been well-intentioned in the past, but the situation turned out doing harm. We’ve all had instances where we tried to do something good, and it turned out bad. This guy tried to be a hero, and instead he’s the villain. Calling him well-intentioned isn’t “apologetic framing,” it’s what happened. And it should serve as a stark reminder to everyone still walking around with guns, that their good intentions mean absolutely nothing.
The situation of returning guns to a gun store?
He intended to confront other people open carrying while he was openly carrying.
This same mindset, you could describe cross burnings or working at the DMV as well intentioned.
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Get this man a badge!
We outlawing guns yet?
See yall next horrific act of gun violence.
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I always thought we crossed the line with the wave of “Campus Security” departments becoming licensed police so they could carry guns
You can try, but we will still keep them regardless of the outcome.
Yeah i know the folks itching to kill people will resist the attempt to disarm folks itching to kill people.
That has nothing to do with what I said.
Security guards are often losers wanting to feel like they have power who tried to become cops but failed. It’s to an extent where you’ll frequently see them (often illegally) put flashing lights on their “security vehicle” and plaster decals meant to mimic those of police on it. Some of them even buy a bunch of stolen police equipment to wear around them and put in their car. A large portion of the people that get arrested and charged with impersonating law enforcement is security guards. It’s sad but it’s also disgusting the lengths they will go to cosplay for their power trip.
These kinds of people are way more trigger happy than normal.
