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Saturday, November 16, 2013

Now this is one way the armed citizenry is supposed to work. The military utility of the ubiquitous deer rifle.

Citizens in small Georgia town help catch robbery suspect

After a robbery at a small town grocery store, a group of concerned citizens helped catch the armed suspect, handing him over to police.

For 60-year-old Ken Lowery, the commotion began as he stepped inside Aden's Convenience Store and encountered the store clerk in distress.

"The lady screamed at me and said ‘I've been robbed. He's got a gun, and I gave him all the money,’" Lowery said.

Lowery said he saw the suspected gunman, identified as 24-year-old Damien Durham of Wilcox County, walking down the street making what he described as a nonchalant getaway.

Witnesses said it was a bizarre sight, but what happened next was even more unbelievable.

"People just kept coming around, and they were mad,” Lowery said.

More than 20 people, many of them armed, spread out in trucks and on foot to look for the suspect, Lowery said.

"We didn't have no leader of it all, we just went all our separate ways. And the people in Rhine they knew they are going to get that rascal," he said.

Lowery ended up tracking the suspect down roughly 200 yards away from the store.

He fired a warning shot from his deer rifle and said the suspect stashed his gun and money and hid in a nearby shed, where he was arrested by deputies.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Who names a kid "Damien" anymore?; November 16, 2013 at 10:10 PM
Anonymous said...: Damien is mild compared to O'RawnGellO (spelled Orange Jello) and Le'MawnGello (spelled Lemon Jello). Another one was Paw' Jamea (spelled Pajama) all of these names turned up in the Fayette County (KY) Attorney's Office a few years ago.; November 17, 2013 at 10:55 PM

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This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

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And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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