A man with a carry permit in Utah managed to subdue a violent individual who had stabbed two bystanders:
A man stabbed two people at the Smith’s Marketplace grocery store in downtown Salt Lake City before being subdued by a bystander.
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Police say a bystander with a concealed carry permit witnessed the attack and stepped in to keep it from escalating.
“(The bystander) was suspicious of what might be going on, and when he saw the stabbing, he just drew his pistol and challenged the individual,” which caused the alleged attacker to lie down on the ground, said Salt Lake City Police Lt. Brian Purvis.
By the time police officers arrived on the scene, the man was subdued and is now in custody.
According to gun control advocates this kind of situation should never happen. First they believe those of us who carry firearms are bloody thirsty monsters who are merely looking for an excuse to murder. In reality most of us are actually very peaceful and prefer to avoid violence. In this case a man carrying a gun was able to defuse the situation without the need for actually violence, presentation of the firearm alone was enough to make the stabber think twice about continuing his violent endeavor.
Second, proponents of gun control say only the police are qualified to carry firearm. What happens when the police aren’t there? The story doesn’t say how long it took for police to arrive but it was long enough for two people to get stabbed and another person to intervene and defuse the situation. Had that permit holder not been at the store it’s likely more people would have been stabbed. When a situation involving violence arises the most critical thing to be done is ending the situation as quickly as possible. The longer a violent individual is allowed to continue the more victims he or she can rack up.
Disarming individuals only makes it easier for the bad guys to reign supreme.
Better than if the police were on the scene then at least the attacker would have been shot and possibly one of the victims
Why isn’t there someone in an office somewhere in the NRA busy cataloging every single pro-gun incident like this that gets reported in the small town news rags, every single incident that gets reported to the police, and repeating it loudly to the mainstream media every chance it gets?
They could also provide some kind of mechanism, write/call/email in or something, whereby citizens could add to it, those incidents that weren’t officially reported. I think it would be a good use of all that money we give them every year.
Because that would demonstrate competency on behalf of the NRA. The NRA seems to be focused almost entirely on the presidential election (for example they just shipped a bumper sticker that says “DEFEND FREEDOM DEFEAT OBAMA” on it. I didn’t order it, it just shipped in another NRA-PVF letter begging for money.
I wish they would spend less time promoting the Obama vs.
ObamaRomney election and spend more time making a case for armed self-defense like the ones in the posted story. I guess they do have some articles in their magazines but that only reaches NRA members.I have been thinking about it and I am going to start using The Ten Ring forums to catologue these incidents as best I can, every armed hero or armed self defense case I can find just to use as public reference.