Cops: Protester Sticks Up Gun Store
Friday, March 25, 2005
SEMINOLE, Fla. "” An Illinois man was arrested after trying to steal a weapon from a gun shop so he could "take some action and rescue Terri Schiavo (search)," authorities said.
Michael W. Mitchell (search), of Rockford, Ill., entered Randall's Firearms Inc. in Seminole just before 6 p.m. Thursday with a box cutter and tried to steal a gun, said Marianne Pasha, a spokeswoman for the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.
Mitchell, 50, told deputies he wanted to "take some action and rescue Terri Schiavo" after he visited the Pinellas Park (search) hospice where she lives, Pasha said.
The feeding tube that has kept Schiavo alive for more than a decade was removed March 18 over objections from her parents. Schiavo's husband has said his wife would not want to be kept alive artificially.
Doctors have said she would probably die within a week or two of the tube being pulled.
Randy McKenzie, the owner of Randall's Firearms, said Mitchell pulled out the box cutter and broke the glass on a couple of display cases.
"He told me if I wasn't on Terri's side then I wasn't on God's side, either," McKenzie told The Associated Press.
McKenzie said he then pointed his own gun at Mitchell and ordered him to lie on the ground. But Mitchell fled out the store's back door before police arrived, he said.
Mitchell was later arrested in a parking lot and was scheduled to appear in court Friday. He was being held on $125,000 bond on charges of attempted armed robbery, aggravated assault and criminal mischief, officials said.
We had one of those in the Milwauke 'burbs a few years ago. Guy tries to hold up a gunshop at knifepoint, guy gets ventillated.
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More like "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight if you don't plan on using the knife"
Mitchell could have easy killed the store owner faster than a gun could be drawn.
It sounds like Mitchell would have had to jump over the display counter which by then had broken glass to use his knife on the storeowner. The storeowner, on the other hand, simply had to draw his gun and start shooting at Mitchell. There is a reason for this saying (Don't bring a knife to a gunfight) and you can bet somebody was foolish enough to think they could win at one time.
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Never bring a knife to a gunfight
