Orem, Utah
A shopper with a concealed weapon's permit shot and killed a man trying to carjack a car in a Macy's parking lot. The carjack had earlier assaulted another woman and had driven to Macy's in a stolen pickup. He was trying to remove a woman from her SUV when the shooter confronted him. When the carjacker attacked the good Samaritan he was shot once in the chest and died. No charges are expected to be filed.
If the citizen had been a white cop and the carjacker a black felon would we be facing another Baltimore?
Sometimes an unarmed person is just as big a threat as an armed person. Of course the citizen could have just walked away or just watched as perhaps many others did that day allowing the police to catch the man later. Chances are good that there may have been a high speed car chase with one or more people injured or killed. Of course there is always the chance it could have ended peacefully.
I suppose there is even a chance the carjacker could have felt guilty about his crimes and drove to the nearest police station and turned himself in.
Of course there are going to be those that argue that if the citizen didn't have a gun his well being would have never been threatened. After all, he killed a man over an SUV which is a high penalty for such a common crime.
So, is the shooter a hero or just another jerk who overstepped his bounds because he was carrying a weapon?
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