Saturday, June 8, 2013

2nd Amendment Story: Shop owner is a victim NO MORE

When a gun-wielding masked man stepped into his South Union Street store last Sunday night demanding money, Arturo Taveras was ready. 
“I crouched behind my counter [and] as soon as I saw him; I jumped behind the [lottery] stand and pointed a gun at his direction,” Taveras said. The would-be robber was spooked and ran from McCann’s Liquors around 10:30 p.m. into the hot, 90-degree night. 
Though the masked man remains at large, police and nearby shop owners praised Taveras’s quick thinking. 
He said he was not frightened, saying, “When you’re scared, you die early.”
Though the would-be robber fled this time, Taveras was not as lucky two years ago, during another much more violent Sunday night robbery. 
On March 6, 2011, two armed robbers entered McCann’s and ambushed Taveras, pistol-whipping him multiple times and tying him up with electrical tape before taking refuge in his upstairs crawlspace. After a four-hour standoff with police, both men were captured and are now serving state prison sentences.
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