Here's a lesson that Zero and the MSM do not want you to learn.


Lesson from Ferguson: When chaos comes, don't wait on cops
Posted By Leo Hohmann On 08/24/2014

The owners of County Guns and St. Louis Ink Tattoo Studio have defended their stores each night during the Ferguson riots.

One of the lessons from Ferguson, Missouri, ignored by the 24/7 media frenzy, was that store owners who stood and defended their shops with guns did not get looted or vandalized.

At County Guns and the adjacent St. Louis Ink Tattoo Studio, peace and calm reigned.

Adam Weinstein, owner of County Guns, shares a storefront with his business partner on Florissant Avenue less than 10 minutes from where rioters started looting and burning businesses after a peaceful prayer vigil Sunday night, Aug. 10. The protest of slain teenager Michael Brown had suddenly turned violent.

Hearing news reports of the spreading lawlessness, Weinstein and his partner, tattoo artist Mike Gutierrez, decided to act.

They rounded up a few friends and prepared to protect their businesses. With force if necessary.

When they arrived at their stores, the Dollar General in the same strip mall had already been looted.

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Weinstein stood with his AR-15 assault rifle, a pistol and tactical vest while Gutierrez and several employees of the two stores also carried rifles.

They not only protected their own stores but the other shops in the strip mall.

“We are next to a beauty salon, which is popular for looting, and a cell phone store, and so we scared them off. Nothing was touched,” Weinstein said. “I won’t elaborate on how we did that, but suffice it to say if you see a bunch of crazy guys with machine guns, you know, I would go the other way.”

Some alternative media picked up on the fact that President Obama, when he addressed the unrest in Ferguson, lumped people “carrying guns” with those who were “looting and attacking the police,” adding that it “undermines justice.”

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Besides the Dollar General, no other stores in the strip mall were looted, and only one sustained a broken window.

One chain-owned clothing store, Ross, brought in its own corporate-paid security guards and had them stationed, with guns, in front of its store.

“But most business owners are probably afraid. Some of these owners never set foot in their store. Most of us up there were former military and are used to these situations,” said Weinstein who also works at a local fire department in the St. Louis County area. “When you see a mob of people the last thing most people think of is let’s go down there and stand in their way.

“But my partner owns the tattoo shop and that’s his livelihood,” he continued. “That’s how he feeds his children, and we weren’t going to let these mobs come smash up his store and basically let them destroy his business, because a lot of insurance companies won’t pay claims during riots. What if he would have to rebuild?”

Weinstein said police were too busy to protect every business.

“They would drive by and thank us,” Weinstein said. “They said they wished more businesses would be doing what we were doing, so they wouldn’t be bouncing from one call to another as alarms go off for businesses being looted. They could stop them from getting there in the first place. I thought they would run us off but they were 100 percent behind us.”

He said most cops don’t fear guns in the hands of law abiding citizens, at least not in states like Missouri where the laws respect the Second Amendment.

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