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Man accused of pulling gun on victim wearing MAGA hat




BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) -- A Tennessee man is in jail after being accused of pulling a gun on a Sam's Club customer Saturday.

According to the police report, officers were called to Sam's Club due to a person with a gun.

According to the alleged victim Terry Pierce, a man pulled a gun on him because he was wearing a Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat.

"I have as much right to wear that hat and support my country and my president as he has not to," said Pierce.

The police report confirms that the suspect, identified as James Phillips, admitted to flipping off Pierce and Pierce's wife because of their hats.

Pierce tells 13 News that he was shopping with his wife when Phillips "Pulled a .40 caliber out and stuck it in my face, backed up and said, 'It's a good day for you to die.'"

Pierce went on to tell 13 News, "I said, 'Then pull the trigger. Put the gun down and fight me or pull the trigger. Whichever one you want.' And he backed up and he said it again, he said, 'It's a good day for you to die.'"

Pierce said the Phillips then took off. That's when Pierce followed him out into the parking lot.

"I went out the front of the store to confront him again and that's when I got him in his car. He couldn't leave because his mother was still in the store. And we were having a verbal altercation outside," said Pierce.

Pierce added, "He tried telling me I assaulted him and I said, 'I never touched you.'"

According to the police report, surveillance video confirms Pierce's story that he did not put his hands on Phillips.

The report does mention that witnesses and Pierce said Phillips pulled a gun on Pierce inside the store but this couldn't be seen on surveillance video due to Phillips backing out of the view of the camera.

In the report, police say Phillips had a Glock .40 caliber with a round chambered in his back pocket and two additional magazines in another pocket. Police say Phillips has a current concealed carry permit in Tennessee, where he is from.

No one was injured, but police arrested Phillips for wanton endangerment first degree. Phillips is in the Warren County Regional Jail.

We will update this story as we learn more.

That's a whole lot of stupid in one article.

And yet we are the "gun nuts"?

This guy probably watches CNN and is a Bernie/Hillary supporter so I doubt this will get much national exposure.

Damn shame we are not reading about how an armed citizen lawfully defended himself by killing a deranged man, James Phillips, who threatened him with a pistol.

I remember reading once upon a time, that the three most dangerous words in the English language were "Go ahead, shoot." This guy gave it a try.

As Balze said, a whole lotta' stupid in one place.

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He couldn't leave because his mother was still in the store.

That's funny. Will Mom bail him out?

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Originally posted by braillediver:

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He couldn't leave because his mother was still in the store.

That's funny. Will Mom bail him out?

Likely not, because she finally has her basement back.

Stay calm, back off, call the cops. Do NOT follow to the parking lot and draw out an already confirmed lunatic.

This is the difference between the left and sane people.

Look at this dudes mug shot. That's crazy, in case you were wondering.

There goes his carry permit, and hopefully any right he has to ever own a firearm again. Who but a lunatic pulls a gun on someone over a hat?

People like this vote and want Hillary in office? And they wonder why we defend the 2A?

Just wow.

People that still think liberalism isn't a mental disorder need to read that article. Good Lord, what a loon. The victim isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer either by his actions as well.

Jim

Hate lives on the Left

I hope they keep him Kentucky.

We discussed this on another board.

General agreement is that Pierce is a HUGE dumbass both for taunting the guy while he was holding a gun on him AND for confronting him again outside.

He's damned lucky to be alive.

On that board it also spurred a lot of chest beating and "I'd have kicked his ass" stuff. I said I didn't know what I'd have done.

I think if I'd have felt truly threatened, or if I felt my wife/family was in danger, I'd have tried to shoot the asshole.

Then again, with a fo-tay in my face, I might have just pissed my pants and begged him not to hurt me.

I seriously doubt anybody really KNOWS what their reaction will be until it happens. Too many variables.

Wow, just wow.

Exit stage left would be the prudent thing to do in that situation IMOHO

Dude is lucky he didn't wind up shot in the face.

The only time I would draw on the drop is that I know with absolutely certainty that I will go home alive by the end of the day. And that happens only on the silver screen.

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Originally posted by Otto Pilot:
I remember reading once upon a time, that the three most dangerous words in the English language were "Go ahead, shoot." This guy gave it a try.

As Balze said, a whole lotta' stupid in one place.

Yeah...

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Pierce went on to tell 13 News, "I said, 'Then pull the trigger. Put the gun down and fight me or pull the trigger. Whichever one you want.'

That was dumb. If someone is waving a gun in my face I'm going to try to defuse the situation... not dare him to pull the trigger.

Both of these guys are IDIOTS.

I think "defuse", not "diffuse".

But yes, some poor action by both parties.

flashguy