Don't Bring a Toy Gun to a Gunfight

Things won't work out for you. From The Truth About Guns - Pennsylvania Teen With Toy Gun Shot During Attempted Robbery

The victim and his girlfriend were taking a walk around 11 PM on September 29th near the 2200 block of Emerald Street in East Kensington, Pennsylvania, when they were approached by a teenager who pressed a fake gun into the man’s back, informing him that he was being robbed. The area, colloquially known as Kenzo by those familiar with the “City of Brotherly Love” is less of the perfect backdrop for a romantic Sunday evening stroll and more appropriate for scoring fentanyl and having a “tranq” injection at the open-air drug market for the low low price of $2. Disease-free needles not included. But I digress.

The man started to comply getting his keys and wallet out of his pockets. Then he drew his firearm, turned around and shot the teen in the leg.

While the man and his girlfriend were unharmed, the teen took an expensive ride to the hospital but was pronounced to be in stable condition, hopefully learning a lesson, albeit a painful one. As a bonus to being chauffeured to safety, the 16-year-old was subsequently given a shiny new pair of interlocked bracelets and taken into custody by authorities. Police say the toy gun was recovered at the scene.

Cops are looking for a second perpetrator.

East Kensington, Pennsylvania is a neighborhood in Philadelphia. It is only a couple of miles from downtown.

While in this case, shooting someone in the leg appears to have worked out, center-of-mass is much better target, even at close range. And while self-defense is becoming more of a thing in Killadelphia, I'm not really sure how the prosecutors in that town react to it.

This all happened at the end of September, but it seems to have slipped through my news filters at the time. That's okay though, because The Truth About Guns is usually entertaining. (Click thru for a few comments about the Darwin Awards.)