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CRIME CONTROL, NOT GUN CONTROL: Harlem Store Owner Shoots 4 Robbers, Killing 2. They strode into?

By Glenn Reynolds

CRIME CONTROL, NOT GUN CONTROL: Harlem Store Owner Shoots 4 Robbers, Killing 2.

They strode into the restaurant supply store in Harlem shortly after 3 p.m. on Thursday, four young men intent on robbery, one with a Glock 9-millimeter pistol, the police said. The place may have looked like an easy mark, a high-cash business with an owner in his 70s, known as a gentle, soft-spoken man. . . . The first shot took down the gunman at the front. He died almost immediately, according to the police, who said he was 29 and had been arrested for gun possession in Queens last year and was the nephew of a police officer.

Mr. Augusto?s other two blasts hit all three accomplices, who stumbled out the door, bleeding. . . . Gene Hernandez, 47, sympathized with Mr. Augusto, but not with the would-be robbers. ?If I were him, I would kill a dozen of them,? he said. ?You have to protect your workers and your family. Case closed.?

Surprisingly sympathetic treatment from the NYT.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 14, 2009 (boomark / email).