LaFollette: more land than brains

One of the worst humans I know comes from LaFollette, which might explain the stupidity I read about in the paper this morning (something in the water?). It seems a city council member is in trouble for protecting himself and his property...

See, some dipstick crook tried to steal the councilman's stuff, and said councilman held the criminal at gunpoint until the cops arrived. When they did arrive, they found the councilman holding a gun to the bad dude's head, they asked him to lower the weapon, he did, and they promptly arrested the criminal.

THEN they decided (the DA I presume) to press charges against the COUNCILMAN because he "pointed a gun at somebody, and that's against the law." What? Excuse me?

I didn't know "catch and release" applied to crooks in LaFollette. Sounds like a great place to be a law-abiding citizen, don't it?