Armed Robber’s Family Outraged At Good Samaritan Who Saved People By Shooting Robber [Video]

Despite the division among Americans pertaining to the Second Amendment and gun laws, people who respect the right to bare arms have shown one of the reasons why it exists in the first place: protecting oneself and others. The Inquisitr reported numerous times on how a person’s right to carry a firearm has saved others, while its infringement had come with a cost. One example of gun rights being used properly is when a Walmart shopper saved the life of another shopper from a man wielding a knife. However, when gun rights are blocked, especially in specific locations, transgressions become more eminent because transgressors know nobody has any means to protect themselves especially if the transgressor has a gun. Target as of late suffered such a fate.

Summarized, when gun advocates utilize the Second Amendment respectfully, it protects people. Case and point, a Good Samaritan saved people at a Family Dollar store when he shot an armed robber. Is he receiving recognition for his heroic deed? Technically he is, but in the form of outrage from the robber’s family.

According to Fox10 through Live Leak, 18-year-old Aldric White attempted to rob a Family Dollar store in Mobile, Alabama, on November 12th. He did not expect a man, simply recognized as the “Good Samaritan,” to stop him. Though the Good Samaritan did not want to shoot White, he had to because people’s lives were in danger when White himself had a gun.

“He [Aldric’s hostage] had the gun to his head. He had him on his knees. I drew my gun on him and I said ‘Hey don’t move.’ At that point he swung around and before he had a chance to aim the gun at me I fired. I didn’t want to shoot him.”

Despite that account, Alric White’s family, specifically his parents, are livid that their son was shot, even though their son had a gun too and was using it to break the law and endanger others around him.

“If [the customer’s] life was not in danger, if no one had a gun up to him, if no one pointed a gun at him – what gives him the right to think that it’s okay to just shoot someone? You should have just left the store and went wherever you had to go in your car or whatever.”

It is kind of peculiar for Aldric White’s family to make such a claim since it is reported that Aldric held a gun to the head of another human being as a hostage. This is why the police took the side of the Good Samaritan, making it clear that he was justified in opening fire. In conclusion, the Huffington Post wrote a final statement by the Good Samaritan explaining why it is good to have concealed carry.

“[Criminals] tend to think that they are the only ones with guns. I’ve been legally carrying my firearm for a little over four years now, and thank God I’ve never had to use it until, of course, last night. It just goes to show it’s good to have a concealed carry. You never know when your going to need it.”

What do you think of the Good Samaritan’s situation? Do you think he is a hero, or should he have followed what Aldric White’s parents suggested he should have done?