NEW YORK - The sidewalk outside the Harlem store still was smeared with blood Friday, and the glass on the door still was blown out.
Above the entrance, someone had scribbled the words, "Abandon hope all ye who enter here."
Less than 24 hours after a deadly showdown at the shop worthy of a Clint Eastwood script, Charles "Gus" Augusto Jr. entered his store — oblivious of the inscription taken from Dante's "Inferno."
Frida Rodriguez called it "a sad day" for the neighborhood.
Augusto "was defending his work, his business, so you could perceive that as being heroic," she said. "But on the other hand, these kids died."
(1) If Ms. Rodriguez considers these punks valued members of her neighborhood, perhaps she needs an attitude readjustment. [Subtle side-story: Does she not consider the shopkeeper a valued member of her neighborhood?]
(2) I bet these punks weren't "kids".
"Luck is where you find it—but to find it you have to look for it" -- Eugene Fluckey. Blogspot picsig
"I told them there wasn't any money. 'Take your gun, put it in your pocket, and go home.' They had a chance to leave," Augusto said.
"I did what I had to do," he said. "It wasn't my choice; it was their choice."
But Augusto's beaten employee -- who would only give his name as J.B. -- had little sympathy.
"Shit went real bad for them, not for me," he said. "I'm breathing. They dead."
Augusto and his employees tried to get back to business as usual yesterday, although it wasn't easy. When a woman came to place a candle outside the shop, J.B. angrily kicked it across the pavement.
"Who's this for?" he demanded of the startled woman. "For the guy who died? F- - - him!"
man, i like this guy
“I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.” - Norman Thomas, a six time candidate for president for the Socialist Party, 1944
There's a couple of crooks we won't have to pay to keep fed and housed.
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
Being a decent man, Gus is upset about having to use violence against these assholes. Gus is welcome to be upset, if that feels right for him.
As for me?
Good on ya, Gus! Keep it up!
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
