Oh! This is a Gunfight? 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
(Moderators asked that I re-wright this one REF "That's Gonna Leave a Mark")so I decided to give it another try.
Here's my nomination for the category of Least Desirable Genetic Combination for Situational Awareness.
It seems that a car containing 3 off duty Lee County Sheriff’s deputies and a female acquaintance in the driver’s seat was being accosted by a driver enraged over the fact that they were permitted to be driving in their own lane. Said driver, one Mark Steven Fitch, Jr, began to try to ram the vehicle off the road, in rush hour traffic, and although the vehicle sped up to let him in the lane, he came up along side and decided to pick a fight, where as the deputies, quickly showed their badges, in an effort to quell Fitch's irratic behavior. Fitch then decided to take retaliance at the lady's driving and proceeded to take out the windows of her car with a lead pipe at the next red light. Deputy Chad Edwards identified himself again,now stepping out of the car, and ordered the subject to drop the pipe at gun point, to which Fitch decided he was going to take another swing, this time at one of the occupants.
Edwards then aimed his service pistol and fired, whereupon Fitch dropped in his tracks and assumed the most still of positions in the street, thus preventing any other injuries, and cleaning the filter of the gene pool.
Now, despite the law enforcement connection in this story, one must recall that Florida is a special state (No, it has nothing to do with election scandles,low voter intelligence or Judge Sanders Sauls). Rather, Florida is one of the first of the “shall-issue” states, where a citizen can go through the process to obtain a permit to carry a concealed firearm, second only to Texas. Hence citizens in Florida are more likely these days to be able to successfully deal with the Fitch’s of society during criminal activities.
But where Fitch seems to earn his Darwin nomination is that he brought a lead pipe to what would be otherwise be termed a gun fight. It matters not that the car was filled with representatives of the law enforcement family ,although one would expect at least one of the people in the car, that you know is full of cops would be armed. But rather, Fitch forgot about the basics of common sense in an area where proper and legal comportment is enforceable by the products of Sir Smith&Wesson, and Dr.Glock. Fitch thus forgot that most important of maxims-
“…An armed society is a polite society…”
And that it is absolutely most rude to smash the windows of a vehicle while the owner, and three cops are sitting inside. May Fitch's story thus serve as a lesson to all the others in Florida and throughout, who are thinking about the projection of a violent attitude. The life you will possibly save will more than likely be your own. Thank you Deputy Edwards, for your service, you probably saved the life of many potential victims.
Submitted on 06/03/2003
Submitted by:
Anonymous
Reference:
NRA website 03/23/03
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