Charles Augusto Jr. is my new personal hero.
As reported here, yesterday, four men burst into his restaurant supply store in Harlem. One waved a pistol and declared that it was a holdup. One of the robbers began to pistol whip one of his employees.
Angered by the violence against his employee and fearing for his life, the 72-year-old Charles Augusto Jr. pulled a 12-gauge pump action shotgun from beneath his desk and did his best Charles Bronson impression.
He hit all four men, killing two and leaving two others critically injured.
The New York media has already declared him a hero. The soft-spoken man will never need to buy a beer in New York City again. While the police are still investigating the incident, they have publicly stated that they will likely not press charges against Augusto. This seems to be an open-and-shut case of self-defense.
The shotgun was not registered. However, under New York law, a person is allowed to use deadly force if lives are in imminent danger.
Two of the men are currently hospitalized at St. Luke’s, where they eagerly await Obama’s health care reform. The other two, well, good riddance. Better dead than eating up my tax dollars in prison.
You know what Charles Augusto did today, a day after his act of heroism? He went back to work. His store was open for business today.
Mr. Augusto, kudos. Work every day and defend what you have. Remember when that was an American ideal?
We need more Charles Augustos!
August 14th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
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August 14th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Yeah, there’s always a bunch of stuff like this touted by the NRA. Cool. I got no problem with it.
But we don’t hear much about all the kids who shoot themselves in the face with Daddy’s handgun.
The NRA is a bunch of extremists. They don’t want ANYTHING to happen that might save some of those kids. Look. When I get in my car, I got to put my seat belt on. If gun manufacturers even TRY to sell guns with trigger locks, trigger locks that the person buying the weapon could just remove and throw away, the NRA goes nuts. If someone even suggests having a database that could track which guns bullets are shot from, the NRA goes nuts. It just goes on and on.
There needs to be a middle of the road. Ask police officers what they think. They put their asses on the line for us every day. The NRA has always gone too far. Too far.
Quite frankly, the NRA has blood on their hands. Plenty of it. And it isn’t all just the justified blood of evildoers, like in the above story. There’s plenty of innocent blood, too.
August 14th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Obama should give this man the Medal of Freedom for his bravery. We are now free of two gang-banging maggots who thought their life goal was to rob and terrorize productive people. Let’s hope the other two soon join their friends on the other side.
August 15th, 2009 at 4:58 am
Good for him, and bravo for a job well done taking 2 more scumbags off the street. There should be many more with his intestinal fortitude.
August 15th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Well Done Mr. Augusto, Don’t feel bad, You did a great service to the nation! Two parasites less. They had no business in your store. Neither the right to terrorize your employees. A great sucess story.
Arriba el Sr. Augusto!
August 15th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Klo continues to be the arch-typical blubbering liberal. She advocates having new laws to protect the stupid, careless, and lazy idiots from themselves, never realizing that there is no end to this. All the while failing to advocate personal responsibility and accountability.
August 15th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
What amazing shooting. I wonder how one feels after something like this, how they deal with it. YOu all make light of it. but its a big deal. Doesn’t sound like your average civilian.
August 15th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Wow, totally awesome shooting. It’s a big deal..
August 16th, 2009 at 1:29 am
That’s great. Good for him. 2 scumbags down, 2 more taught a lesson they won’t forget (until they heal and inevitably go back to their sickening life of crime). It’s nice to see some people cleaning up this city when things go rotten.
August 16th, 2009 at 5:15 am
“My new personal hero,” were my exact words when I saw Mr. Augusto on the news this morning.
Only when there is significant risk of punishment (i.e. Death) for acts of violence against innocents, will thugs begin to think twice before committing crimes.
August 16th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
what you people are saying is its ripe time for a new Charles Bronson Movie.
August 17th, 2009 at 12:05 am
KLO….obviously you know nothing of why the nra reacts the way it does or why we have a second amendment. Yeah, I want a trigger lock on my shotgun so I can’t use the thing quickly when I need it. And you say we never hear about it when kids get shot?…where you from? That’s all the lib media does is focus on the negative, this story being the exception. Funny how you talk about cops laying themselves on the line and don’t understand that the american public is doing the same thing with these criminals running around. The harm done to cops is almost always after the crime has been committed and they are going after the criminal. In other words, you’re dead first. I will never let liberal types render me defenseless.
August 18th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
BUNCH OF IDIOTS ON THIS SITE….SERIOUSLY…ALL YOU IDIOTS REJECT COMMON SENSE LIKE ITS A DISEASE. YOUR IDEOLOGY IS A DISEASE THAT US WITH SUBSTANCE REJECT. THAT US WITH BRAINS REJECT. THAT THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS THAT ELECTED PRESIDENT OBAMA REJECT. GO MINGLE WITH ACTUAL AMERICANS OUTSIDE OF YOUR LITTLE BUBBLE THAT YOU CALL REALITY AND EDUCATE YOURSELF. BUT THEN AGAIN THE RIGHT DEPENDS ON YOUR IGNORANCE AND STUPIDITY TO HOLD ONTO THE “LITTLE POWER” THEY HAVE LEFT WHICH IS SLIPPING FAST. SO THEY ARE COUNTING ON YOU, YOUR DOING A GREAT JOB. YOU PEOPLE WAKE UP BLIND AND FALL ASLEEP BLIND. WHILE SLEEPING IF YOU HAVE VIVID NIGHTMARES ITS PROBABLY THE TRUTH “CHASING YOU”. BOOOOOOO! DONT WORRY, YOU WILL WAKE UP FAST…..AND YES…BLIND