Woman Pulls Gun And Threatens Walmart Customers After Being Sold The Wrong Ammunition
We know it's stressful out there, but really, there's no reason to start waving your gun around in the Walmart parking lot. According to the Peninsula Daily News, a woman threatened several other customers who told her to stop yelling at Walmart worker who had sold her the wrong ammunition.
Guess it's better to just mind your own business.
[Clallam County Undersheriff Ron Peregrin] said she was upset with the employee, saying she had sold her the wrong kind of ammunition.
After she received her refund, she walked out to the parking lot, removed a gun from her car and confronted the customers she had argued with earlier inside the store, Peregrin said.
"The long and the short of it is, she didn't like what was happening at the store . . . and as a result, pulled a weapon and threatened people with it out in the parking lot," he said.
No one was hurt, thankfully, but let that be a lesson to you all. It's probably best not to intervene during loud disputes about guns and ammo.
Port Angeles woman allegedly pulls gun on Wal-Mart customers [Peninsula Daily News]
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Fortunately, she had no ammo...
And this is why your Americans needs better gun control. Tell me, why does a Wal-Mart shopper like this need a gun?
She's lucky she even got a refund. Every place I've bought ammunition at has had a strict "all sales final" policy.
Cue in someone who claims that gun control would have avoided this, and another one who claims that if someone else had a gun, this nonexistent bloodbath would have been avoided. I intend to sit this one out. I got disemvoweled the last time i participated in gun talk. And since then I have earned a star. I am supposed to show more decorum now, apparently.
Yikes, I'll make sure never to shoot my mouth off inside a gun retailer.
Was this lady arrested? Sounds like assault with a deadly weapon to me...
@ophmarketing: Yeah, I was gonna say ...
She got the wrong ammo, so if she'd had kept it, she wouldn't be able to use it in her gun. But she returned it anyway, so ... yeah, no ammo ...
@xtc46 - thinksmarter on twitter: reading the article clarified she was arrested for first degree assault...I should probabaly read before asking questions.
@MostlyHarmless: Guns have saturated the nation, and I would imagine it to be impossible to completely get rid of them. However, I think those over-zealous gun nuts need to stop quoting the Constitution as if every amendment and passage were gospel and infallible. Things change, the British are no longer a physical threat to us (maybe a threat to our appetites or sensibilities, but that's different).
@madog: "There are too many guns because they make so much money selling guns to the people who need guns to protect themselves from bad people with guns who have guns to make money and attack the other people with guns! YAAARRRR!"
You can't deny my logic.
She probably thought she was at Target. (Rim shot)
Who pissed in her lemonade?
@MostlyHarmless: Cue the passive-aggressive person with deeply hurt feelings over having been disemvoweled.
@H3ion: Of course, its only natural to take a 'shot' at Target when retail stores and guns are involved (another rim shot)
I'm in a large circle of people, many of them hunters and who own handguns. And we all know somebody who is a loose cannon and ought not to be keeping a gun.
It reminds me of when I see somebody operating a motor vehicle that can no longer see the road, straddles the lanes, sails through stop signs- are there any laws in place that can revoke privileges if someone's behavior is erratic?
One look at this scene and I would have fled to housewares.
@LordofthePing:
Shops that deal only in guns and ammo, such as those attached to indoor shooting ranges probably have zero problems with theft and unruly customers. Each and every employee has a very visible large caliber handgun strapped to their hip, as well as having a door buzzer system.
Janie's got a gun...
@madog: One of the reasons that Japan did not invade mainland U.S. is that a lot of the citizens were armed and knew how to use a gun. The right to bear arms is to protect the citizens from the government and from any outside threat.
-This lady should have her gun taken away. With a gun comes great responsibility and this lady showed that she shouldn't have either one.
@dave_coder:
She is not just a "walmart shopper".
She could be a security guard, own a liquor store, been raped, there are dozens of legit reasons to own a gun.
Now if you had said "Why does a nut case like this need a gun"?, I would have agreed with you 100%.
This is Consumerist.com after all. Aren't we all so proud of this person for sticking up for herself as a consumer who has been wronged and putting it to the evil corporate menace? I bet she sure taught them a lesson!
I believe we should all have the right to bear arms against corporate greed and Walmart's screw the customer mentality. If somebody messes with me I say shoot em!
@madog: The British may have been the threat at the time, but the right to arm yourself is a right to defend yourself against oppression. The founding fathers realized that the only way that the people of a nation truly have any power over their government is that they have the intrinsic right to rebel against it, and that right is secured in that we each have the right to own a weapon. As nice an idea it is that the nation will always act in our best interests, it is a power structure that breeds corruption, in that putting any individual in a position of power over another does the same.
Of course, having the right to own a weapon, does not free you from the lawful and legal punishment of acting like an idiot, hence this prime example in the article.
@sir_pantsalot: I very seriously doubt the validity of the japan not invading usa statement.
It is worth noting that guerrilla warfare was not the "in" thing then, and that it would hardly have been the concern for an army that only wanted to bomb the bejeezuz out of you.
I am all for safe responsible gun ownership, this was neither. As for the assault with a deadly weapon it did not sound like she shot any one so there was no assault. The police probably charged the woman with brandishing a firearm which is not nearly severe enough in this situation I hope the judge sends this woman for a psyc eval.
She should have just kept the ammo and resold it at double the price like almost everyone else is doing.
If there were more gun control, Walmart wouldn't be in the business of selling guns/ammo thus this wouldn't have happened.
@MostlyHarmless: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto - "You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."
Why would a Japanese admiral have any reason to say this if the question had not come up. Human history is about taking over others land. If the Japanese would have had the opportunity they would have taken it.
@ShiningSquirrel: Doesn't every state in the union already have restrictions against people with mental illness from being able to possess a firearm?
And we thought McDonalds customers were bad.
@sir_pantsalot: Um where the fuck did you make that shit up from?
Japan never invaded the US because they had absolutely NO INTENTION of invading the US... EVER.
They simply wanted to drive US interests out of the Pacific islands, in a attempted decisive victory at Pearl Harbor.
They where hoping that if we where beaten soundly along with the complete destruction of our aircraft carriers (which happened to not be there) we would just give up the islands we had bases on which they could then exploit for resources.
@sir_pantsalot: Ah yes, an actual quote indeed. And I note you said "one of the reasons".
Yup you are right about that. My bad.
@rewind: We are seeing the practical application of the right to bear arms being played out in Iran as we speak. Somehow I think that there might have been more progress towards a fair election had the ones who rigged the election not been the only ones with the guns.
And yes, I know that given where our society is, we probably wouldn't have a situation like this, but the fact that we got this far is that the founders realized that governments to expand their powers if not checked in some way.
@MostlyHarmless: Considering that we used nukes (twice!) because we were concerned that freedom-loving* housewives armed with bamboo spears would result in too much US blood being shed liberating Japan, I think it's only reasonable that the NRA should start standing tall for Home Depot nurseries.
* Hey: eye of the beholder, right?
@rewind: I was being fecicious, but do lean more towards the gun control side. At this point the circular logic will not end and guns will most likely be a part of this nation forever. However, as an effective method to rise against our government.... I don't think that will ever happen, but if it did, judging from how the government has reacted to previous "threats" to our nation (hippies), then I don't think we'd stand a chance.
I'd have been much more impressed had she gone on a paper-cut frenzy in the parking lot, using only the tattered remains of her receipt.
@rewind: Hmm... good luck firing a few pot-shots at that M110 Howitzer with your S&W pistol.
Unfortunately for the founding fathers, the destructive capabilities have far exceeded the limits of personal armament, and the constitution was not amended to keep up. It was much more relevant in those times because the great equalizer was the gun, but now government agents have the tools and the tactics to black-van you in the middle of the night and there's nothing any personal firearm is going to do about it.
@Applekid: if the mental illness has been diagnosed, I think so. but some people "go" crazy, meaning that they weren't always crazy and may have gotten the gun prior to being crazy or at least getting diagnosed.
@Applekid: only if you have been officially judged by the state to have a mental problem. Unofficially, plain, old-fashioned, angry, hateful, and insecure people, can have all the guns they want.
@JediJohn82: no but somebody with a gun could get upset about something else and threaten people with the gun.
I think she's lucky Wal-Mart refunded the ammo in the first place. That's not something they do.
As for me, I open the box of Ammo before swiping my card. Always be sure!
This would have turned out so much better if only the other patrons were also packing heat, as the concealed-and-carry folks strenuously proscribe.
...Life sure would be a lot simpler and tranquil if only everyone were required to discuss their differences over an ice-cold Vodka Tonic with a wedge of lime rather than shouting over the acrid smell of cordite.
@Trai_Dep: I dont think our concern was bamboo dart guns :P
It was the freakishly suicidal japanese army. The jihadists have no class against the japanese.
On a side note, i have not read much about it recently, but till mid 2000s I kept on reading about mass suicides in japan, esp among the youth. wtf is with that.
And the japanese admiral thought trigger happy real americans would be a problem too. I'll take his word for it :P
It's a good thing they didn't ask to see her receipt.