Police: Robbery victim shot teenage assailant

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

Source: By Kate Howard • THE TENNESSEAN

A man who was being robbed near his south Nashville home at gunpoint drew his own gun and shot the teenage perpetrator, Metro police said.

Paul Campbell, 60, was sitting in his car in the driveway of his Lindy Murff Court home with a friend when two people approached. The teenager, armed with a handgun, demanded money while 19-year-old Kevin Negron stood by with a shotgun, the man told police.

Campbell pulled his .38-caliber revolver and shot the teen in the chest.

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[Roland99]

1. Why did you stop quoting the article in mid-paragraph?

Here's the rest:

Campbell pulled his .38-caliber revolver and shot the teen in the chest. He is in stable condition and will be charged with aggravated robbery when he's discharged from the hospital, police said. Negron was charged with two counts of attempted aggravated robbery.

Campbell has a carry permit for his handgun.

[Rocky Sullivan]

2. Tough to find fault here

It's always a shame when a young person has to learn a lesson the hard way, but jeez. The good guy won in this scenario. The kid's lucky he's still alive. His partner in crime is lucky he didn't catch a bullet too. The victim is lucky he was carrying his (legal) gun.

[kimmylavin]

3. Strange worldview you've got there.

Learning a lesson is your mother taking you back to a store from which you shoplifted something.
Taking a bullet in the chest as a lesson learned is quite a leap.

[Statistical]

4. So you don't think he learned a lesson? n/t

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

5. As if shoplifting and armed robbery are the same thing.

[kimmylavin]

10. Where did I say that?

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

12. Where did I say you said that?

[kimmylavin]

13. Useful conversation!

I was questioning the "learning a lesson the hard way" idea.
I've just never heard it applied to teenagers who took a shot in the chest.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

14. I've heard it applied to all kinds of people making stupid decisions.

[kimmylavin]

18. And if he'd died?

Do you call that REALLY learning a lesson?

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

20. Then it would have just been a learning lesson for his cohorts.

[Statistical]

24. His buddy (the one holding the shotgun) would have learned a lesson.

"Dude armed robber can be dangerous to your health".

[Rocky Sullivan]

6. That would be a lesson, yes...

but is Mommy making Jr. take something he's stolen back to the store learning a lesson the hard way? No.

[kimmylavin]

11. You're absolutely right.

She should shoot him.

[Rocky Sullivan]

15. Kimmy, the shoplifting scenario

and the robbery scenario are two different things. Of course the mother shouldn't shoot Jr. for shoplifting. The kid in the story threatened this man's life.

[kimmylavin]

17. I realize that.

But you suggested that the shoplifting scenario wasn't learning a lesson the hard way.
I must disagree.

(Granted, taking THIS particular kid to a store to apologize for shoplifting probably wouldn't do it as a lesson learned the hard way...)

[Rocky Sullivan]

19. In the shoplifting scenario,

I would say learning a lesson the hard way would entail Jr. being caught by someone other than his mother and charges being pressed.

[SteveM]

25. The thug's "learning a lesson" is secondary...

When someone -- anyone -- threatens you with a gun (especially when his cohort is also armed), he is liable to get shot. If a lesson can be gleaned from this, fine. If not, it wouldn't make much of a difference: he will (or should) go to prison for a very long time and thereby be out of civilized society. Too bad another teenager decided to thug-out and try to reach celeb status on-the-cheap (all though taxpayers will have to foot the bill for an expensive chest-cracking operation -- something I cannot afford due to lack of health insurance).

Sir or madam, this is a case of self-defense, and in the words of Gandhi, "Anyone who despatches this lunatic will earn the gratitude of the community and be regarded as a benevolent man." I trust you agree with Gandhi that this elderly fellow who defended himself should be "...regarded as a benevolent man."

[emilyg]

27. He'll live - lesson learned

(we can hope) - don't rob people.

[Treo]

32. I bet he never tries to rob an old man again. Lesson learned NT

[imdjh]

7. THE TENNESSEAN • August 31, 2009... I guess it wasn't breaking news enough.

Couldn't be bias.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

21. I guess following the rules isn't good enough for some people.

[harmonicon]

8. (guns forum? WTF?) - anyway, good for him

That bastard got what was coming to him. Play with fire and see what you get, motherfucker.

[sharesunited]

9. This one goes in the Guns As Solution To Guns pile. Next?

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

16. They are certainly the solution to some problems.

[sharesunited]

22. Roll it back. A problem unto itself.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

23. True of many problems.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

26. What a bedwetter answer.

[proteus_lives]

29. Would you rather there be robbery and death?

I think you rather Mr. Campbell had been killed. Am I wrong?

[PavePusher]

31. And a large pile it is.

Truth hurts, doesn't it?

If someone threatens me with a gun, should I offer him/her knitting lessons?

[Treo]

33. No

It goes in the "guns as a solution to armed thugs pile"

EDIT TO ADD
Like it or not, guns are here and as long as the bad guys have access to them they WILL use them. If you took away all firearms in civilian hands today someone in the army or on a police force, somewhere would sell one tomorrow. Where do you think the Mexican cartels are getting their RPGs? A gunshow in Houston?

You can not eradicate guns from this planet; you’d have to kill every machinist, every gunsmith, and every pipe fitter and destroy every mill and lathe on this planet and kill all the people that know how to make them.

When you come up with a workable way to implement your plan I’ll be the first to listen. Until then….

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

34. How's that pile?

[proteus_lives]

28. That's the risk of being a criminal.

Maybe he'll make something of his life after he gets out of prison.

Good for Mr. Campbell. He protected himself and his friend.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

30. Just because some people think everyone is nice.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

35. kick.