“Where’d You Get A Concealed Carry License From? Kmart?”

By Bob Owens

Presented without comment.

With one short, straight-to-the-point pronouncement, Judge John O. Craig did the entire community a favor Thursday by stripping a John Wayne wannabe of his right to carry a concealed weapon around town.

…This exercise, a sort of Mr. Magoo meets Buford Pusser at the OK Corral, started with [Daniel Ray] Brown having breakfast with his mother at the McDonald’s at Hanes Mall last March 22.

Two men who worked for Independent Living, a group home whose residents include people living with behavioral and intellectual challenges, were at Hanes Mall just before 10 a.m. with a client in tow. One of the workers, Frederick Morgan, testified that he’d stopped at the mall to pay a bill during a planned outing with the client, whom he described as mentally ill.

The other worker, Morgan testified, said something the client didn’t like and that prompted the client to get out of the vehicle and run toward Hanes Mall Boulevard. Morgan and his co-worker — they’re both black — chased the client, who is white, past the McDonald’s and started to struggle with him.

Morgan testified that the client was yelling “Help me. They’re trying to kill me. Somebody help me.”

That’s when Brown decided to …Read the Rest

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