In Tennessee the other day, a disturbed former employee of a schnuckies grocery store chain went in to the store after he was fired, with a pair of butcher knives, and started stabbing people at random. With 8 injured, 4 critically, the maniac chased another victim out in to the parking lot where he was stopped by another civilian and held until police arrived.
Many news outlets wrote this story saying that the person who stopped this vicious assault TACKLED the attacker, but only a few got it right. This civilian stopped the attacker by pulling his own handgun and pointed it at the attacker, forcing the attacker to throw the knives away and to the ground until police arrived.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...61/detail.html
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Police said a grocery store employee in Tennessee stabbed eight co-workers with large kitchen knives Friday morning, critically injuring four before a witness tackled him.
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This was just ONE of the news outlets to avoid the citizen using a gun.
Here was one of the TRUE stories.
http://wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5180897
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A grocery store employee attacked eight co-workers with knives Friday, seriously injuring five before a witness pulled a gun and stopped him, police said.
The attacker, chasing one victim into the store's parking lot, was subdued by Chris Cope, manager of a financial services office in the same small shopping center. Cope said he grabbed a 9mm semiautomatic pistol from his pickup truck when he saw the attacker chasing the victim "like something in a serial killer movie."
"When he turned around and saw my pistol, he threw the knife away, put his hands up and got on the ground," Cope told The Associated Press. "He saw my gun and that was pretty much it."
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On top of peoples perceptions being swayed by a deceptive media, we also have this load of crap from the police themselves, further perpetuating that people shouldn't do the right thing.
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Higgins said police were pulling into the parking lot as Cope was putting the attacker down.
"We commend him," Higgins said. "But we don't encourage people to take that kind of risk. He could have been hurt."
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yeah, I guess he should have just stayed out of it, not got involved and watched another innocent person be butchered.
Just one more example of how normal everyday citizens can make a positive difference, USING A GUN!!!!!!