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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
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.
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You just love to bash the media don't you? Well in this case you have a good reason to do it. Too bad you chose the wrong reason.
This is not an anti-gun media story. This is a "reporter got the facts wrong" story. If mutiple media outlets are reporting the tackling story, it's because they're all getting it from ONE reporter who put his story on the newswire. It's not anti-gun. It's anti-good journalism.
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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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Think before you write. It'll go better for you
The cops have to say that. If they encourage people to pull their guns at the first hint of trouble, then the first time some jackass does so and shoots an innocent person, the cops will get sued. They might not lose the lawsuit, but the bad publicity alone will not be good for the police.
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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.
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Let's look at this another way. THis guy was very lucky. The guy with the knife didn't come after him, or throw the knife at him. The guy with the knife didn't have a friend behind the "hero" to take care of him while the original attacker kept stabbing people. . .starting with the gunman.
Should he have done what he did, or left the gun in its holster? Neither one of us can say because we weren't there, we didn't see the situation, and without that firsthand knowledge we can't make the call on whether he should have done it or not.
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Just one more example of how normal everyday citizens can make a positive difference, USING A GUN!!!!!!
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And I can give you examples of normal everyday citizens ruining people's lives USING A GUN!!!!!!! because they don't know what the hell they're doing. Little anecdotes like this are cute, but they don't prove anything.