Alphecca: Jeweler Was Justified

February 18, 2005

Jeweler Was Justified

From the "Here's How It's Done" files comes this NY Post story:

Rockland County jeweler Barry Fixler will not be prosecuted for shooting a robber who was aiming a revolver at his head, cops said yesterday.

Detective Lt. Charles Delo said a review of the shooting on surveillance videotape at the store in Bardonia showed it to be justified.

Fixler had a permit for his gun.

The suspect was in serious condition after surgery at Nyack Hospital but was expected to survive, police said.

Two alleged accomplices who fled the scene were arrested within 12 hours.

Fixler said he feels he did what he had to. "I'd be dead," he said. "My life was going to be over. That's what I thought about."

If, as liberals love to claim, there are too many guns in our society, then I would respond that the only excess ones are those in the hands of criminals. And since those will never disappear, the law-abiding should -- must -- be allowed to have theirs.

Posted by Jeff Soyer at February 18, 2005 07:44 AM

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Jeweler Was Justified

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