A concealed carry permit holder in Louisiana saved a police officer's life

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http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=4527526

Bystander Fired Deadly Shot, Not Officer

Perry Stevens

There were two big developments Monday in the case of a motorist who was shot and killed along Greenwell Springs Road Friday after a fight with a police officer. Investigators say an autopsy shows the deadly bullet was fired by a bystander, not the officer. Police also announced that no charges would be filed in the case, either against the police officer involved or the bystander who fired the fatal shot into the head of George Temple.

East Baton Rouge Sheriff's spokesman Greg Phares says Officer Brian Harrision was escorting a funeral procession Friday when he pulled Temple over and wrote him a ticket for breaking into the procession. According to Phares, that's when Temple attacked Harrison. Police say Perry Stevens was walking outside of the Auto Zone on Greenwell Springs Road when he heard Harrison yelling for help. Harrison was reportedly on his back with Temple on top of him. That's when Stevens went to his car and grabbed his .45 caliber pistol.

According to Col. Greg Phares, "[Mr. Stevens] orders Mr. Temple to stop and get off the officer. The verbal commands are ignored and Mr. Stevens fires four shots, all of which struck Mr. Temple."

Perry Stevens fired four shots into Temple's torso. Officer Harrison had already fired one shot into Temple's abdomen. With Temple still struggling with the officer, Perry continued to advance toward the scuffle.

"He again orders Mr. Temple to stop what he was doing and get off the officer. Those commands are ignored and he fires a fifth shot and that hits his head. The incident is over with, and as you know, Mr. Temple is dead."

Police are calling the shooting death justified. Perry Stevens has a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Col. Phares would not give out any more details relating to the shooting. Both Phares and Baton Rouge Police Chief Jeff LeDuff stopped short of crediting Stevens with saving the officer's life. LeDuff says the entire incident is unfortunate.

"I spoke with his father at the scene briefly," said LeDuff. "I think this is a tragic situation all around."

9 News is told George Temple has a criminal record, and Officer Harrison was involved in a shooting while employed as a prison guard in East Baton Rouge Parish, where he was suspended for three days back in 1995.

Reporter: Jim Shannon

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Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Guiness is probably the most overated stuff on God's earth.

No, that would be any American lager.

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azazel the cat wrote:
whembly wrote:
sounds about right...

Never heard of officers (or military) shooting to "wound".

Oddly enough, for I dunno how long (perhaps still?) that's exactly the reason the military used full metal jacket rounds -to wound rather than kill.

Not 100%, but I believe it's not because they are less lethal, but because FMJ ball ammo is far less likely to mis-feed than semi-jacketed anything.

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KalashnikovMarine wrote:

Screaming about the need to disarm people when you have squad sized elements of men with assault rifles (Real fething assault rifles mind you, which is to say a full automatic/select fire weapon in a "intermediate caliber" not what CNN calls an assault rifle which is a semi-auto that looks scary) coming across your border regularly strikes me as more then a little silly.

Even more silly considering that the BATFE is responsible for an unknown amount of those guns being in the cartels' hands.

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Jihadin wrote:
Even more silly considering that the BATFE is responsible for an unknown amount of those guns being in the cartels' hands

Which is just a drop in the bucket compare to what they already brought over the counter past years from US gunstores.

References please.

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Jihadin wrote:
Fast and Furious involve over 2k weapons
Wide Reciever involved 275 weapons

Both operations involving AFT

Four states along the border of Mexico.

So your saying a majority of the weapons were "provided" by the ATF.

Your asking me for a refernece. Its common sense but

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500202_162-57337289/legal-u.s-gun-sales-to-mexico-arming-cartels/

A little clarity please.... I never made the statement that "a majority of the weapons were "provided" by the ATF."

Lordhat wrote:

Even more silly considering that the BATFE is responsible for an unknown amount of those guns being in the cartels' hands.

Also, thanks for providing the reference, though it entirely fails to back up your inference that the cartels are just walking over here and buying massive amounts of guns from our dealers, instead of stealing them from their own government after said government purchased the firearms from manufacturers and arranged shipping to their country.

Here's how it works: A foreign government fills out an application to buy weapons from private gun manufacturers in the U.S.

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d-usa wrote:
People that complain about F&F killing Americans: are you sayin that without those guns people wouldn't have died?

Not at all.

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youbedead wrote:
and if it was made in AZ you don;t even have to register it, yay.

You don't have to register your gun here, for any reason. As a matter of fact, I don't believe it's possible to register your gun here, if you wanted to.

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youbedead wrote:
Lordhat wrote:
youbedead wrote:
and if it was made in AZ you don;t even have to register it, yay.
You don't have to register your gun here, for any reason. As a matter of fact, I don't believe it's possible to register your gun here, if you wanted to.

If it was was manufactured outside of AZ then it has a registration number and is connected to you (as it would fall under the jurisdiction of the national gov). Any gun made and sold here doesn't even need a registration number.

Ah yes, the yellow sheet. I wrote up many of these when I worked at the gun store. However this is not registration as such, and only pertains to the original purchaser of the firearm in question. If the sale is made privately then no registration is required; you don't have to inform any part of the government that you have obtained a(nother) firearm. As I said earlier, I don't even think there is a mechanism for doing so.

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Grey Templar wrote:
I believe you have to be 21 in most states to even own a handgun, much less have a conceal carry permit. So it kinda comes with the territory.

In AZ it's 18 to own/possess/carry (state law), 21 to purchase (Federal law) or carry concealed (state law).