Good Guy with a Gun #120: Atlanta, GA (free post)
Original incident: February 28, 2024. I'm sorry, but if the ex-boyfriend is stupid enough to act like this, he deserves everything Mama gives him.
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I’m guessing that when Mama saw her daughter’s ex-boyfriend show up, she knew he was up to no good.
After all, it’s unlikely that he had been a gentlemen when dating her daughter. His behavior that night proves that he wasn’t that kind of guy.
He confronted Mama’s daughter in front of their house. Mama (and maybe others) came out, and he pulled out a gun. Fired a bullet into the air, in fact. I can only imagine what Mama was thinking, but she apparently showed tremendous restraint by not shooting him immediately.
No, she gave him multiple warnings, telling him to leave. And he just wouldn’t listen.
So she shot him.
Not fatally. He jumped into his car and drove to the hospital — a 20-minute trip.
Police caught up to him and took him to the Grady Detention Center.
Clearly he was too stupid for Mama’s daughter. He didn’t even know that you don’t mess with Mama.
As an aside, this story doesn’t appear to be covered in the news at all — just the police report, which was mentioned by John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) in one of their monthly roundups. So when people say that Good Guy (or Mom!) with a Gun stories are a myth, realize they’re just not well-publicized.
Often, circumstances can be described as 'Defense of a Third Person/Party,' rather than Self Defense, per se.
"A person is justified in threatening or using force against another when and to the extent that he or she reasonably believes that such threat or force is necessary to defend himself or herself or a third person against such other's imminent use of unlawful force" --Official Code of Georgia Annotated Section 16-3-21
Defenders need to be aware of the fact that innocent parties may be downrange in addition to the assailant. Whether that was the case in this incident is unclear but it is a possibility.