AP News
Saturday, August 15, 2009
A 72-year-old New York City shopkeeper has gunned down four men trying to rob his restaurant supply store but says he "didn't want to do it."
Charles "Gus" Augusto Jr. was back at work Friday, a day after the bloody confrontation. He says in an interview he had no choice but to turn his shotgun on the robbers.
Augusto described how on Thursday the four men burst into his commercial kitchen equipment store in Harlem with guns drawn. He says they demanded money and began beating a worker.
The shopkeeper says he pulled out his shotgun and fired three times. Two of the men died on the street. Two are hospitalized.
Police say Augusto didn't have a permit for the gun. But no charges have been filed.
I'm certain that Mr Augusto feels guilt and generally terrible about killing the two hoods. On the other hand, if he'd a reached for the telephone to call #911, I wonder what the results would have been...... and how many of his employees and himself would have been dead.
I knew that New York Pity is death on handguns, as in 'go to jail - directly to jail' if you are an honest citizen caught with one........ but............ a 'permit' for a shotgun?? Gimme a break!!
Are we that close to the laws of Germany of the '30s??
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