72-year-old Vietnam veteran Omar Sixto likely never dreamt the hatred in someone would cause them to carry what happened to him Sunday afternoon, but unfortunately, some people have the worst motives.
Sixto was repairing the wiper blade on his 2000 C5 Corvette convertible when he was struck in the back of the head, leaving him bloody and unconscious. The man went on to beat him before stealing the Corvette as Sixto lay unaware, according to local news affiliate WSVN.
“I had blood here, blood here, and you know, I felt the tooth, you know, chip,” Sixto said, pointing to different spots on his head. “I just went unconscious. I never knew what hit me. I never knew. I don’t even remember how I got up. I was totally dizzy.”
“I have a broken bone here in my eye socket. The septum in the nose is also broken. Three stitches here, eight here, three in the back and a chipped tooth. A couple of inches further in the brain, I would have been gone,” he added.
Sixto didn’t get much a description of the man who assaulted him and stole his vehicle but said he was a clean-cut male likely in his 20s. Sixto thinks he had been casing the car and him out before attacking him.
“I should have really paid attention to the guy pacing, but he didn’t look like a criminal,” he said.
Thankfully, Sixto will recover and police have since located his 2000 Corvette. However, the suspect has not been found as of this report.
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Uncivilized savages cannot live in a civilized society. A complete and utter disgusting display we have here.
A concealed carry permit is a must.
Wouldn’t have helped, He never saw him coming.
In this instance I agree, but in most cases, being armed evens the odds.
The attacker was caught. Guns create far more problems than they solve.
http://www.local10.com/news/crime/alleged-thief-of-veterans-corvette-claims-he-was-given-car-to-sell
You stole the words right of Chris Matthews’ mouth. Kudos. You’re right though, when that piece of sh*t broke into my house last year, I wish I would’ve only been armed with a push broom instead of the .45 he had stuck in his face. LOL!
Scram!
I have one at my bedside too, Infamous. Doesn’t mean I need to carry one on the street to feel big. Or that I like knowing some old fart could potentially blow one of my family member’s heads off because they forgot to use their blinker.
Guns are like vehicle traffic. The more of them you pack onto the streets, the more problems you’re going to run into.
You do realize that in order to obtain a Conceal Carry Permit, an extensive background check is completed? No matter what you read, not every Tom, Dick and Harry nut job can obtain a permit easy-peasy? Look at the Police Officer murdered yesterday in London. He was an UNARMED officer. Had he been armed, that Radical Muslim vermin would have had 3 rounds center mass. Now, the officer’s wife has to raise their three children alone.
BTW, US states that allow CCP’s have a 17% lower violent crime rate than those states that do not allow them. (2011 FBI Crime Statistics)
All of these posts prove how hopeless your country is. What a joke.
Until the next big time war and then every country will be asking the US to help protect them!
You may think that, although you’re probably the biggest target right now.
Also, you were late to the game in the major wars and the ones you started, you lost.
Before you go there, WWII was won by the Soviets.
I’m not American but you may want to review reputable history books. Without the US supplying the Soviet forces even before they entered WW2, they would have lost the war from the onslaught they suffered to German forces. The ability for the Soviets to be re-supplied and hang on is what gave them their ability to grind down the German forces. The Soviets were totally surprised and unprepared by Hitler’s betrayal of Stalin. The Soviets came very close to losing their war and they later expedited the end of WW2 but they certainly can’t claim to have won WW2. Unless you were exposed to Soviet/Russian propaganda, maskirovka, dezinformatsiya,…
It’s too early to know what even happened in London, let alone say with any certainty what might have happened if. In the Orlando nightclub massacre the shooter killed 49 people despite three armed off-duty officers being on the scene when the shooting began, and he managed to hold off more than 100 additional highly-trained officers for three hours while many victims bled out. So much for the good guy with a gun theory!
I can’t comment on the statistics you’ve shared without seeing them. How does the violent crime rate in those states compare to countries which prohibit carrying a handgun?
Guns and gun deaths go hand in hand. This I know. The only winners are the gun manufacturers, who sell more and more guns, to more and more scared people scared of being shot by someone with a gun.
The laws need to change! If someone enters your personal space you should be able to defend yourself anyway you want. If somebody touches your personal property you should be able to defend your property anyway you want.
And so on l, and so on, and so on!