(L.A.) Police Seize Shop Owner's Gun After Dispute

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Thursday June 15 05:23 PM EDT

Police Seize Shop Owner's Gun After Dispute

Ralph Gambini says that a gun is as important to a convenience store as a cash register.

The Tujunga shop owner has used a firearm twice in the past year to protect himself and his store.

The latest incident occurred Monday evening, when three young men tried to attack him, Gambini said.

The men were upset because Gambini thought that they were underage and wouldn't sell them beer, Gambini told CBS 2 News.

The youths struggled with Gambini and hit him in the head with an unknown object, CBS 2 News reported.

To defend himself, Gambini pulled out a gun and shot the ground by their feet as a warning.

"You can't just shoot unarmed people," Gambini told CBS 2 News. "I didn't want to shoot anybody. Especially when they are running away. I don't want to stop the guys. I like to see them go to jail is what I want."

But police weren't happy with the matter and confiscated Gambini's gun.

Gambini says he doesn't mind. He says that he has support from the community and a large arsenal.

"The last time they took all my guns, so many people in this neighborhood brought me guns that I had to give most of them back and I couldn't remember who they belonged to," Gambini told the television station.

Gambini and his Tujunga mini-market has seen its share of violence.

Last October, Gambini shot and killed a 16-year-old suspect who held him up. In a shootout that followed with the teen's accomplice, Gambini was wounded and sent to the hospital.

Gambini also lost his father to attack at that same convenience store in 1981.
 
I don't know about the PRK, but in most states, this would be a disparity of force that could very well justify his use of lethal force to defend himself.

Of course, in LA, they probably prefer nice, tidy chalk marks around the bodies of shopkeepers. After all, shopkeepers don't take much room to bury or cremate, but if they had to incarcerate these three guys, well that would take a lot of jail room.

I don't even like to visit the PRK anymore. The rural areas are great. The Pacific is wonderful. The urban areas seem to be a nightmare.

Regards from AZ
 
The politicians crave us to be victims so much they can't keep the drool off their lips. I'd like to see how they'd like it when there is a knife sticking out their stomach moments before they die, oh wait ! that's evil if it happens to them, it's only OK if it happens to us, after all we exist to serve and support them don't we - I guess us slaves don't have the right to life, that is only the right of goverment employees and not even all of them qualify - after all they have to have someone to fight for them, they can't be expected to cancel their trip to the spa with their ARMED bodyguards to do everything now can they ??!!!! / rant

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I'm mixed on this dude. He knows little about real usage. He fires a warning shot at people running away!

I would sentence to go to LFI - 1 or a similar course before he gets his guns back.

Don't need doofuses saying things like this or acting this way.

Bullets leave the gun at the BG in order to prevent grievous bodily harm.
 
Glenn E. Meyer - Yeah, I thought that too, but after re-reading that fuzzy sentence, it could be interpreted that he fired a shot at their feet and THEN they started running and he didn't want to do a follow-up shot.

If he fired at them running away, I would have thought the cops would have been all over him, especially in L.A.
 
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